Premium Extra Large Exercise Mat 12' x 6' x 1/4"

I bought it for 2 reasons, actually 3

1. I had a plan to rearrange my 10 foot by 33 foot attic room so that I could actually use 3 exercise machines/devices (Ab Coaster, Pro Force Stretchmaster, and HIIT AXLE) that were either elsewhere downstairs in the house, semi-inaccessible or not-yet-purchased, plus have extra room on the mat otherwise for doing my calisthenics and my X3 Bar exercises. This mat allows all of those things in one area (the back half of my room in the attic. 2. The wood floor of that area was semi-unfinished ever since I moved up there and I would always get splinters every once in a while, plus when I'd wear socks, they'd always grab little tiny bits from the floor and then get embedded in the carpet of the other half of the room, and on my 7 x 5 Gorilla yoga mat I'd have on the carpeted half of my room's floor, which was very annoying. Anyway, even though this new 6 foot by 12 foot Exercise Mat doesn't span the entire wooden floor, it covers a lot of it and I won't be getting any splinters or bits transferring like before, since I'll mostly be on the mat instead, and only about 12 inches on each side of the mat expose the floor now. 3. I already have had a Yo Gorilla Yoga Mat for a couple of years now and it's pretty awesome, so I decided to go to YoGorilla Mats for an exercise mat, to accommodate the machines. This exercise mat is so much firmer than the yoga mat, but I expected that since they are made to be more durable so that more can be done using it. It's so durable. It does have a bit of a smell (which the Yoga mat never did), but it's not bad and I'm sure it will be gone by the end of the week. In a word, my review is..................... "Yaaaaaaaaaay!"