On the morning of august 23rd I woke up with a nasty smell in my nose. I wondered what it could be. After pressing snooze several times on my phone and turning around for a while I finally woke up by the smell and went into the room next to my bedroom and asked my mom what the smell could be. She said that our dog had diarrhea on my gym puzzle mats. I was like bruh. I dragged away the two affected mats under my power rack and my mom put them in the bathtub. However I needed to hurry to get ready for work.
Fortunately my mom cleaned the mess on the mats and on the floor while I was going to work (thank you) but I thought to myself - well my mats are shit I guess. I wanted to change them already but well it costs money.
Back when the pandemic started I bought these kinda cheap puzzle mats. To be honest they're great for many purposes and you just puzzle them together. But they aren't great for lifting because they're too soft and you slightly sink in.
So I searched for other rubber mats online. There are companies that sell rubber mats specially for home gyms but they're expensive. Often it's just marketing (they know people will buy it when it contains the word "gym" or "fitness") and you can just buy normal rubber mats or horse stall mats.
I'm still looking for rubber mats and probably will buy them soon. I will write an update in my blog once I get them.
