You have many options when designing a space to encourage people to explore fitness. Whatever solution you choose, professional surface installation and high-quality materials are key to building a sports space. A sports and fitness zone is key to benefit your local area, and these require expert surfacing.
Encouraging social inclusion with sports courts, outdoor running tracks and exercise areas is vital to improving UK fitness. Many areas, especially in urban housing developments, lack accessible, safe and attractive outdoor areas for fitness. Sports courts and social fitness gyms make for great meeting places for people of all ages. Spaces for physical activity help to build community bonds and reduce antisocial behaviours.
This expert guide helps to choose the right surfacing and designs for any fitness zone goals. We aim to help you in your journey to the perfect sports area to fulfill your ideas for your outdoor space
Varied, Responsible Sports Provision
Creating a well-rounded sports area that appeals to all ages and abilities requires a design based on providing variety and accessibility. Therefore, PlaySmart is dedicated to developing innovative playground surfaces. These are flexible for a range of purposes: for playgrounds, pathways, sports areas, and fitness stations.
Outdoor social fitness setting should provide safety surfacing for your outdoor gym equipment to protect older users. This is because flat safety surfaces like rubber grass mats remove trip hazards and reduces injury risks. Grass is able to grow through the gaps in the outdoor gym mats to provide a welcoming, natural atmosphere to encourage exercise.
Smart use of your outdoor landscaping development budget or cost-effective sports premium spending ideas makes the most of your space. Ultimately reducing installation costs while still providing everything you need. MUGA pitches and Sports Courts with professionally inlaid sports markings are a modern and innovative way to host multiple types of sports in one area.
What is a MUGA Pitch?
Multi Use Games Areas, or MUGAs, are sports courts with markings, goals, hoops, and nets for a range of games. This is therefore an inexpensive, space-saving design for sports spaces for a range of activities and experiences!
We have the solution for any sport. Whether your local basketball team needs a space to play, football is popular in your area, or you need freedom to play any sport, MUGA pitches are key. Ultimately, FlexCourt sports surfaces for fitness zones from PlaySmart can make this happen!
Modular and Customisable Fitness Zone Surfacing
Effective sports court design should include clear sports markings and simple layouts. However, they can also utilise vibrant colour and personalised designs to make people excited for sport! Outdoor sports court material should take into account the needs for fun and colour as well as practicality.
The endlessly customisable modular smart flooring option, FlexCourt, creates unique, practical and long-lasting sports surfacing for any fitness area. With an easy installation process of individual rubber mats secured safely together to fit any space or layout. This sports surface solution is popular in both greenfield developments and urban renovation projects.
FlexCourt is available in a range of non-standard colours, with special lines and even logos. With FlexCourt you can represent the sporting spirit of the local area through design, encouraging community and use of the sports space.
Professional Athletics Track Installation
Hybrid or artificial grass with running track markings can create running fields or tracks that look natural all year round. With non-trip edges, excellent wear resistance, and a soft feel, artificial grass is becoming more popular for running tracks in local parks. This is because it is a cheaper, low-maintenance surface for running hobbyists and Daily Mile Tracks for any school’s fitness zone.
If you are looking for a more professional running track surface material, with improved grip, shock absorbance and eye-catching design, rubber mulch is an ideal option. The unique texture provides excellent surface grip while the layers of bonded rubber mulch reduce the stress on the feet. Therefore, the surface is ideal to prevent injury during running that can occur on inappropriate materials like tarmac or pavement.
Safety Surfacing
PlaySmart offers a range of professional rubber surfaces suitable for sports and fitness areas, offering you a soft surface to reduce fall impacts, improve traction, and provide accessibility. EcoSmart grass mats used as outdoor gym mats with our patented SmartPlay shock pad underlay create the perfect surfacing solution. This is especially important for use under outdoor gym equipment or play structures.
Safety considerations should be a focus at all stages of the design and installation processes to create a space to play sports and enjoy fitness without worry.
Surfacing solutions should also be low maintenance as a preventative safety measure. If maintenance and repairs are too time-consuming, surfacing can become worn down and lose its effectiveness. Therefore, all of our surfacing comes with a ten-year product and five-year installation guarantee. This applies to surfaces when cared for with minimal maintenance, even with heavy-use of the sports area.
Bring Smart Design into Your Outdoor Fitness Zone with PlaySmart!
PlaySmart’s experts can help you renovate and redesign your outdoor space into the ideal sports and fitness area. Get in touch today with the handy contact form at the top of the page. Additionally you can call us at 01564 742811.