The Brief
The client, a former professional boxer, wanted his garage in Tilal Al Ghaf to become a place he would spend real time in, not just train in. That meant a full gym, a recovery corner with heat and cold, and a personal feel, with photographs from his boxing career on the walls. Two constraints: the villa is rented, so nothing permanent, and the garage floor is cobbled and unlevel, which ruled out self levelling compound.
What We Did
We found a functional flooring system that sits over the uneven brick and still gives a flat, stable surface, laid loose so it can come out when the tenancy ends. The gym is built around the Inspire FT2 Pro, a functional trainer that replaces around sixteen separate machines, with commercial grade strength equipment alongside it. In the corner we created the recovery suite: a full infrared sauna and a vertical ice bath, so heat and cold are both a few steps from the last set. A wall mounted television runs training content, and his fight photography makes the room his.
The Equipment
- Inspire FT2 Pro functional trainer
- Commercial strength equipment
- Infrared sauna
- Vertical ice bath
- Heavy duty gym flooring laid over an unlevel cobbled floor, no self levelling, fully removable
- Wall mounted television
The Result
Training, sauna and ice bath in one garage, personal enough that the client uses it as a room rather than a facility, and reversible enough that it leaves with him when he moves. This is the template for our rented villa gyms.
Planning a recovery suite at home? See our villa cold plunge and sauna installation guide and our home gym page.
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