CrossFit is the hottest new fitness trend, but anyone who has been around a CrossFit studio knows that they can be incredibly loud. Blasting music, motivational yelling, and the sound of flipping tires can often be distracting to surrounding residents and businesses. Noise complaints can also attract negative attention to your studio and even get you into legal trouble when violating a sound ordinance.
While some Crossfit studios are in a standalone building, often a converted warehouse, others are located in strip malls and share walls with other businesses. If the adjacent business isn’t matching or exceeding the level of noise in a Crossfit studio, then hearing everything that goes on in the studio, and they might not like it.
How to Soundproof a CrossFit Studio
Consider these tips for soundproofing your CrossFit studio to make for happier neighbors – some of these methods include:
- Soundproofing doors to a CrossFit Studio
- Soundproofing CrossFit Studio ceilings
- Soundproofing CrossFit Studio floors
Sealing Doors of Crossfit Studios
Some CrossFit studios are set up in a warehouse and adjoined to an office or lobby area with a door. If you’re trying to talk to potential new clients in the lobby, they might be turned off by how loud it is outside of the actual workout space. Although they’ll experience the noise if they join the gym, you probably want an office area to remain fairly quiet for employees and/or important meetings. And think, if the workout area is joined to the front desk and office area by a door, you can reduce a significant amount of noise by just soundproofing the door.
Door sweeps can be placed underneath the doors of your studio to keep noise from escaping through the gap between the door and the floor. Door seals are similar but attach around the perimeter of the door, sealing any spaces that noise could travel through. Check out our door sweeps and seals here, which can be made to fit any size door and will prevent noise from leaking out of the studio. Our AcoustiDoor™ is another option, which can be hung over any door to reduce noise flow between rooms.
Ceiling Blokker for Workout Studio Soundproofing
If your studio is on the bottom floor of a multi-story complex with other businesses or apartments, consider our Ceiling Blokker to prevent sound from rising into other floors. It can be easily installed between an existing ceiling and second layer of ceiling drywall and will reduce noise transfer, which will please your upstairs neighbors.
Another option here is to use resilient ceiling hanger clips, which can attach to metal deck, concrete or beams. Then, you can attach one or more layer of gypsum board to the clips for a finished ceiling. Resilient clips like these have a spring mechanism that acts as a shock absorber and helps prevent sound from traveling to the floor above.
Floor Blokker to Reduce Footfall & Weight Noise in CrossFit Gyms
If your studio is on a higher floor of a multi-story complex, the sound of dropping weights is most likely disturbing people underneath you. Our Floor Blokker absorbs vibrations and stops the noise from seeping through the floor into other levels of the building.
Most resilient floors and soundproofing floor underlayments are made from either rubber, cork, polyester or even a combination of multiple materials. As with any soundproofing or sound dampening membrane, flooring underlayments act as shock absorbers for structure borne noises such as footfall and dropped weights.
Acoustical Wallpaper & MLV for Gym Wall Soundproofing
Our OverWall Noise Blokker is an acoustical wallpaper that can be easily installed over existing walls, and painted and primed over to match any studio colors or designs. It reduces noise by up to 75%, transforming a thin wall that sound previously seeped through into a sound suppressing structure.
For other wall soundproofing options, consider installing Mass Loaded Vinyl behind drywall to improve STC performance. MLV can also be installed over existing drywall to improve a wall’s soundproofing ability, but for best results you should also cover that with an additional layer of drywall.
How to Soundproof a CrossFit Studio
To review – soundproofing a CrossFit studio for the benefit of employees and neighboring businesses don’t have to be too hard. There a re few options including door soundproofing, ceiling and floor soundproofing, and wall soundproofing.
Interested in learning more about gym sound treatment? Check out this case study performed by Commercial Acoustics.
