A home gym with Alpha Vinyl flooring for Fabio Jakobsen
A warm and cosy home gym? Get inspired by Fabio Jakobsen’s pain cave, equipped with a Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl floor.
A pain cave is a room in your home that you set up specifically for training. The difference between this and a regular home gym is in the design – pain caves have a trendy design, making them more of a living space where atmosphere, colour and light are important.
The cyclists at Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl can attest to the importance of design. According to Stijn Steels “it’s a space in which you spend many hours every month.” Dries Devenyns adds, “a nicely designed space is great for morale. It gives you a sort of energy.”
Quick-Step opted for soft shades when designing the pain cave, for a sense of calm and harmony. Lilac was chosen as the main colour for its calming yet uplifting effect. Plants and natural materials were added in for a motivational effect.
The floor is extremely important in a pain cave, and needs to both look good and be functional at the same time. Vinyl floors from Quick-Step add a natural look and feel to your pain cave, with all of the benefits of vinyl.
They feel soft and warm, which is ideal for training. But, at the same time, they are also extremely durable and resistant to scratches and impact damage. A dropped weight, spillage or heavy sweating – it won’t be a problem for this strong, watertight vinyl floor.
The pain cave has gone down well with the cyclists and even got James Knox daydreaming: “Indoor training is the toughest part of cycling. You’re so focused on the suffering. So maybe it would help me to have a space designed like this at home.”
Do you dream of having your own pain cave, like work champions Julian Alaphilippe or Pieter Serry?
Hopefully these tips will help: