my gym has a soft and a little bouncy surface all of the free weight area sort of like pic related
the thing is it goes under the squat racks as well. is this normal or acceptable? I noticed it but didn't think too much of it while squatting with shoes on but I tried bare feet today and could literally feel my heels sink into the floor even before I put the weight on my shoulders. I thought squat needed a hard solid surface to protect the ankles or have I misunderstood something?
should I write a complaint and ask them to do something about it? it's a rather new gym and they have made some changes before based on user feedback but I don't know if this is something that I can or even should demand changed.
Christopher Torres
Its so you dont break the floor if you drop weights.
Cameron Hall
It is bad for your squat but only if you are maxing out
Adrian Young
I understand that but I'm talking about the middle part of the squat rack where your feet go and where the weights wouldn't drop (see pic)
Carter Nelson
I'm more concerned about the potentially increased risk of injury than the numbers. Is there any and should I refrain from bare feet squatting?
Caleb Taylor
never done vertical stability squats on a trampoline I take it?
Michael Miller
You're squatting on an unstable surface.
That's never going to be a great idea.
Evan Allen
ok I think I'll write a complaint citing safety reasons and keep squatting with my fingers crossed in the meantime
Cameron Bennett
>You're squatting on an unstable surface. once you apply weight on your body the mat will compress to its limit, same as standing on a solid floor.
Jonathan Torres
You can negate most of the depression by spreading your weight out over a greater surface area. Take a piece of 4'x4' sheet metal, at least 1/8" thick with you next time and try it out. Then when management comes ask them how safe they feel with you squatting on a compressible floor.
Gavin Moore
let me just check my sheet metal drawer real quick
Ayden Cook
If you don't have sheet metal lying all around your home, you might as well sign up for TRT.
Elijah Reyes
alpha
James Carter
could the Turkish Radio and Television corporation give me advice?
James Moore
>tfw you write a letter of complaint and suddenly feel 60 years old
Hunter Harris
Nigger, they invented that shit.
Thomas Ross
>Crossfit
Kevin Adams
>a piece of 4'x4' sheet metal I would use MDF
Levi Taylor
Yeah or a 4x4 feet one inch thick slap of hard steel. for gains on the way to the gym
Christian Ramirez
You shouldn't do barefeet anyway
Andrew Sullivan
what if it's either that or what are practically runnign shoes? they're not super high on the heel but still have some padding
Jeremiah Turner
Man if only it was widely accepted among athletes of all kinds as superior to squat in shoes with elevated heels instead of barefoot, then you'd be perfectly fine. Oh well, what a shame. Someone's gonna have to call all those dumbass gold medalists and tell them their shoes suck for lifting.
Chase Perez
they squat with weightlifting shoes which have a solid hard heel, not a soft heel like a running shoe. that's the entire point of separate oly shoes
Ian Baker
The point is that they're flat and stable. If the heel is soft it'll just compress to its maximum like the other user said, it's hardly significant compared to having a stable, flat shoe.
Leo Davis
If you had tried proper WL shoes you wouldn't be saying that. Running shoes are certainly not stable even when fully compressed.