Earlier this year me and my mum started going to aerobics classes at our local community centre. On our first session there we were told we would need an exercise mat each for at the end as there was a few minutes at the end where you have to do press ups, sits ups etc which you can't really do on the floor as its slippery and also a mat would be cleaner and comfier to use. I had no idea how much exercise mats cost as I had never bought one before. I imagined they would be really expensive and was quite cynical about buying one because of the price. But I found after using a towel for a few weeks that I would have really benefitted from a proper mat so I looked ...  Read the complete review

I bought this exercise mat at least a year ago to make some of my Wii exercise games more comfortable, and to use whilst doing yoga and pilates DVDs. This mat is unbranded and seems to be sold in most major supermarkets, including Sainsburys, Tesco and Asda. I seem to remember picking it up for around £6-8, as I figured that exercise mats are all the same and there was no point paying more for a branded one. The mat is around 150cm in length; now I'm only 5'2", but this means I can't lie down fully on it without my head or ankles hanging off the ends. So if you're using this for full length floor exercises or stretching, then you won't find it ...  Read the complete review

Comfort is not something most people usually associate with exercise. Motivating yourself to do some exercise and then going through the process often results in getting hot, sweaty, and aching. Usually, not comfortable. However, there are certain things out there that can be used to help make things somewhat more comfortable than they would be without them, and one of these things is a foam mat. These mats can be bought from a lot of places. Sainsbury's have their own version of it, which in all honesty is hardly different to other such products from other places. In essence, it's a foam mat that is rolled up for convenient storage reasons, and you can unroll ...  Read the complete review

Eventually we all get to that time of life when you need to start looking after yourself. The long hours in the office chair in front of the computer, the quick snacks between meals and those long evenings in front of the TV start to take their toll. So I suppose when my family bought me this foam exercise mat, that was their way of saying that it was now that time. Now I know when I used to exercise in a gym (long ago!!) that they used to put mats on the floor to protect you from the hard surface, especially useful when you were doing floor based exercises. Now unless you are one of those people who can afford to put swaths of deep shag pile carpet ...  Read the complete review

You would think from my recent mistake of paying very little for a exercise mat and it literally ending up as rubbish I would have learned but nope I carried on with naive buying. I was in Sainsbury's when I came across this exercise mat. It cost £6 and from first glances looked perfect it looked a lot longer than the Argos mat and felt better made. So I decided on buying it. As described above it is made from foam is 150 cm long 60 cm wide and 0.6 cm thick. Now when I got it home I began to use it around an hour later after my hard workout out part of my dvd we moved on to our mats for our stomach exercises. It was easy to unroll just 2 elastic bands to ...  Read the complete review