LED Gym Lighting

Designing a gym is more than figuring out the best way to use floor space and install showers. Of everything involved, lighting can be one of the most important decisions in a gym’s success or failure.

Do you want dim, sleepy lighting or bright, energetic lighting? Bright lighting can look great, but can it be too bright? You want your gym to look clean, modern, and engaging. You can talk about wall paint color all you want. Lighting will make the real difference.

Designing A Modern Gymnasium

When designing a modern gym, it’s time to drop traditional lighting, with its high cost, maintenance needs, and other drawbacks. Instead, it’s the perfect time to choose energy-efficient, cost-effective LED luminaires designed to highlight your gym’s best features.

Favor lighter indoor colors rather than darker ones. Lighter colors will contrast less with your lighting fixtures, reduce overall glare, and feel less claustrophobic.

A unique factor regarding gym lighting instead of other lighting arrangements is that people working out on weight machines and other equipment spend more time looking upward. Because of this, you’ll want a low-surface luminaire. Traditional lighting can produce excessive glare and act as a distraction and cause discomfort to those who end up staring at it for prolonged amounts of time. Selecting luminaires with a diffuse white lens is essential to avoid this.

On a related note, many gym devices, such as treadmills and cross-trainers, use a sloped control panel. In many conventional lighting scenarios, this can create reflections that make the screen hard to read. In this case, avoid luminaires with bright reflector lenses. Some gyms use wall-mounted display screens, another reason to choose lighting with a white diffuse lens.

Choosing the Best Light Fixtures

Despite newer, more comprehensive options available, some gyms still use fluorescent tube lighting. As LED luminaires become cheaper, fluorescent tubes are on their way out. LED lighting uses less energy and is a safer overall alternative.

Traditional fluorescent lighting devices contain mercury vapor and other components that could pose health risks to those around them. LED lighting does not contain those same hazardous chemicals, making it a friendlier option. LED lights are also sturdier than thin fluorescent tubes, less prone to breakage, and therefore less likely to cause immediate physical harm.

An excellent choice for lighting your gymnasium would be AEON LED High Bay Luminaries. You’ll notice an immediate improvement in the space’s visual comfort. With a color rendering index of greater than 85 (CRI>85), AEON LED luminaires provide color rendering as close to natural sunlight as possible in this class of light. Other features include a proprietary glare-free design that reduces light spillage and overall glare (UGR<19), making it ideal for indoor gym use. AEON LED luminaires guarantee a comfortable, well-lit space.

A Solid Financial Choice

Is budget a consideration? Gymnasiums sponsored by schools and communities often face tight budgets, so efficiency and savings are essential. AEON LED High Bay luminaires can save up to 83 percent on energy use compared to traditional lighting options. Over a short time, those savings add up quickly and pay for themselves.

Another cost-efficiency benefit is that AEON LED High Bay luminaires last much longer than traditional lighting. They can stay in place for years without needing replacement. You’ll spend less to power the lights, buy fewer replacements, and spend less labor managing them.

Built To Last

We mentioned earlier how fragile many traditional lighting setups could be. That’s not a concern with AEON LED luminaires. These fixtures have endured rigorous trials, including ANSI 3G testing, and can withstand constant vibration and vigorous impact tests that meet or exceed all national and international standards.

Install AEON LED luminaires with confidence, knowing they will deliver the best lighting for years even in the most challenging gym environments.

Adding It All Up

When you boil it down, why wouldn’t you choose AEON LED solutions for your gym? These lights boast significant savings in energy consumption compared to many other gym lighting setups, more even and balanced lighting, less glare, and solid environmentally-friendly construction.

Do the math, and you’ll see AEON LED luminaires are the best choice available.