The place where the bar is allowed to drop. The Impact Suppression Platform cushions impact and dampens noise, vibration and bounce, so Olympic lifting can be done even where noise is a problem — on an upper floor, in a hotel, next to neighbouring rooms. The rubber platform is low and links racks into a row. Click a platform to open a larger image and the details.
The Impact Suppression Platform comes with an oak or rubber surface, free-standing or with an insert that goes into the rack. The rubber platform is thinner and simpler.
According to the manufacturer's tests in a sound-controlled room, the platform is perceived as half as loud as a classic wooden one, with many times less vibration. The drawing shows the layers pulled apart, and the numbers match the descriptions below.
38 × 76 mm tube in 11-gauge steel surrounds the whole platform. Slotted corner gussets give an exact fit and a rigid joint.
A dense rubber tile 19 mm thick spreads the impact of the plates evenly onto the layer beneath.
Impact Suppression Squares, dense squares 60 mm thick beneath the drop zone, cushion the impact and dampen noise and vibration.
Oak on a cross-laminated plywood base, with two coats of polyurethane lacquer — or non-porous rubber.
Independent suspension: the wings, that is the drop zones, are separate from the lifting surface. The frame holds them in place while they move vertically on their own, follow the floor and absorb the impact. That way bar drops are not transmitted to the joints and the wood, which would otherwise crack over time.
What you need to know: the platform follows any unevenness in the floor, so an uneven floor means an uneven platform surface. Iron Olympic plates are not meant to be dropped on any platform — that is what bumper plates are for. The suppression squares are rotated on the manufacturer's schedule, after 6 and 12 months.
The Impact Suppression Platform is ordered in four steps, with a ramp as an accessory.
4X8 is 131 cm long, 6X8 is 192 cm long. Both are 240 cm wide and 8.3 cm high.
The free-standing version stands alone, for lifts from the floor. The insert version goes into a half rack, power rack or HD Perimeter.
Oak with no logo, with the Hammer Strength logo or with a hand-painted club logo in several colours. Or rubber, with no logo.
A 20 × 69 cm ramp is ordered as an accessory and bridges the 8.3 cm edge of the platform.
Which insert goes with which rack depends on storage depth and rack version, so we check this over the floor plan — Hammer Strength racks →
