Inside Fitness Entrepreneur Rob Lipsett's Villa In Marbella, Spain

What's going on, Luxury Home Show? My name is Rob Lipsett. I'm a fitness YouTuber, and today I'm going to be taking you through my Marbella villa. Let's get into it. All right guys, so this is the front garden. So much space, and we actually use this a lot. And so if you come over here, we've got some nice plants here as well and a cool little decking area. Now this used to be just a big pile of rocks and a load of pipes, and we wanted to flatten them out, but we couldn't as there are some very essential pipes for plumbing and whatnot. So we said, what can we do here? And we can actually put some decking over— need it. So if we do need to access those pipes, there's a trapdoor underneath it. But I think this looks really cool. It's nice to sit up there elevated, and it gets plenty of sun as well. So This was a cool little addition that we added in recently. So my name is Rob Lipsett. I've been in the fitness industry for over a decade now, which is crazy to say. I uploaded my first YouTube video September 1st, 2014, and life just completely changed for me after that. I've been documenting my whole journey, and it's just crazy that I'm here now. This is kind of like a summary of all the work that I've put in, so I'm very proud of this place. And so what I do, I own an app called Gameplan. I own a protein pancake company called Fuelcakes. And I work with some of the biggest health and fitness brands in the world, such as Alphalete and Ghost Lifestyle. And so my number one mission is just I want to positively impact as many people in the world as possible through fitness. So that's my North Star, and as long as I'm doing that, I know I'm on the right path.

So why Marbella for you?

So I actually came to Marbella during lockdown. I was living in London. I'm from Dublin originally, and during lockdown all the gyms were closed. And I need gyms not only to work and make content, but just for my physical and mental health. Without the gym, I go absolutely crazy. So I said to my wife, Linda, where in Europe are the gyms still open? And a lot of the gyms are outdoors here, so they remained open. We came to Marbella for a month, got an Airbnb, and we just knew it was going to be home. We absolutely loved the place. We fell in love with it. And I actually used to work in Puerto Banús in a bar. And so I would associate Marbella with a party place that you couldn't really live. But then I came and I actually realized that I can be super productive here. There's actually a huge, huge health and fitness scene. So that is why we came to Marbella, because the gyms were closed down. The gyms are the answer to everything. Go to the gym and it'll guide you in the right way.

Okay, well, let's, let's start with the tour. Let's go.

All right, so here's the entrance, and we wanted to keep as much of the original house as possible. So we wanted to keep the roof and the layout. The house was actually built in the 1950s, and we actually bought it from a really nice Dutch couple who lived here for their whole life. So we kind of wanted to honor them and not change it too much. But we were going to knock down this whole porch, make it all open plan, but we actually think it's a really nice entrance to the house. So if you want to come inside, this gate is pretty cool as well. Some, some extra, extra security just in case. This is the main living space, and so as you can see, we took a lot of inspiration from Mykonos and Tulum. You can see the stone wall here, so it's very wide, minimal, and easy to be creative and think clearly. The house that I grew up in. I also lived in shared accommodation for a while, and it was extremely cluttered. I think a lot of people who come from my generation, they grew up in houses that were very cluttered and very messy. So I wanted just the opposite of that. I wanted things to be organized and easy to work in and easy to think clearly. And so we got some inspiration from Mykonos and Tulum, some place that we love to go to, and we added in micro cement floors And now these are one of the most striking parts of the house because the floors originally were like red. They were like red Spanish floors, and we wanted something really minimal. And when we added these in, people said, "How do you keep that clean? Is that not so hard to keep clean?" It's actually extremely easy. Everything just slides off it. There's no cracks. It's all one piece essentially, so it's very easy to keep clean. But this is, uh, the living area, and We got some little nice books dotted around the house. And of course we got some Aseline magazines or books. And we of course have to get Marbella. So you know you've made it when your house is in one of these books. Capri, Ibiza, Marbella, the place to be. So if you come around here, you can see we're watching my second favorite YouTube channel. Number one has got to be my own. Gotta back yourself always. I didn't do that. This was touchscreen, come on! But so this spot here, we made this into a little reading corner. The wall, as you can probably see, ended here, so we knocked it down and added an extra meter onto it. So this is just a lovely spot to sit down, relax a little bit, and just do some reading, or even just, you know, go on your phone, let's be real. And then over here, right, you'll see the RoboVac. Okay, So I try to make my home as efficient as possible. So you'll see little gadgets all around the place. Like here we got the Dyson RoboVac. And like here we just have some red light therapy machines. So there's little gadgets dotted around the house to make the house kind of like as convenient as possible. Then we also have an Ethanol fireplace as well. So you press this bad boy and it lights up. Got the little security as well, always watching. And then another chair to match the one in the corner. And now this spot over here, this is the most used part of the house. So we got a massive 10-seater dining table. This is from a company called Zoco Home, which is actually based in Marbella, but they get all their furniture from all over the world. I think Indonesia, Bali particularly. But this was, uh, just such an important purchase. As you can see, we got a little minimal workspace here, the iPad and the keyboard. But this is just so good for having people over, or even if I have a few friends over who are also entrepreneurs and they're visiting Marbella, they want to do some remote work, we'll all just like set up here. There's going to be laptops everywhere, and it's just such a nice feeling to work together. So this is kind of like a nice little internet cafe almost. It's like a co-working space.

It's a good place to work as well, right? You've got the view to the pool.

Exactly. You're sitting here and you're just looking at the blue water. You're looking at the sunshine and you're just like, I am ready to try and be productive. Exactly, yeah. Or I'm just like, ah, close the laptop and jump in. All right, so before we go outside, we've got a few more things to show you, okay? So the house is shaped quite strangely, but we do, we do love it. Like, it's so different. So we call this the Curve, and so this is just a great spot to just chill meditate, or just, just kick back and relax. This is like, this is technically a bedroom right here, you know. You could, you could sleep there if you like. That's from Zoco Home as well. You can play some music too. I love this little area, it's very, very zen. Oh, okay, so how did I forget to mention that this whole area was outside? So The living room ended here, and then there was like a gate, and then this was all outside. So it was covered, but it was like a terrace pretty much. So we added these glass windows onto each border, which pretty much doubled the size of the living room. So that was like an easy win and a nice way to, uh, you know, double the size of the house essentially. You can still slide open all the doors, so it still feels very nice and airy. All right, so here's a nice look outside. You walk out, the blue pool, the sun, the orange tree, the deck chairs. I just absolutely love this. But the garden used to be super cluttered. There was just bits everywhere, so we wanted to really open it up. So we kind of knocked it all down and we added these new tiles just very recently. And I just absolutely love this space. Like, I come out here in the morning get some sunlight to my face. And like, still to this day, I just take a picture. Like, I always— I just stand here and I'm like, oh my God, look at that monument. So it's crazy, like, to just think about where I started on my journey, where I am now, and how long I've left to go. You just— I just feel so grateful. And it's just been a surreal journey. So it's wild. Come around here. And so we actually had the day 2 of our wedding here as well. So this is such a big open space. We had like a bar set up here and we had so many people and we were surprised at how much people the house fit. But this is actually going to be converted into a gym. So we have the ice bath here. So that's kind of like, it's kind of a wellness section as is, but we'll be moving the ice bath somewhere, maybe here or something. We'll figure it out. And then I'm adding in a squat rack, cables, and then a dumbbell rack. Running all along here. So right now, we got these, we got 2 sets. It's like, you're either doing 20 kg or one of these. But we're getting a proper dumbbell rack added in, so. Welcome to the McDonald's drive-through. Yes, exactly, you know, if you want some dumbbells, we'll hand them into you. But, so this is the little workout wellness zone for the moment, but we're getting some huge upgrades very soon. And of course, in this episode, we're going to be doing the ice bath. It is, it is 5 degrees. Okay, so it's, it's very cold. Like, any colder and it would turn to ice. It's as cold as it can possibly be. But you're getting in it as well. Unreal. So out here as well, we got the laundry room. So this house, like, I've seen some house on this channel and I'm like, these are like show houses. So keep in mind, we live here. Okay, so there's, there's some laundry like going on at the moment. We got your camera equipment here. But I actually do really, really appreciate having a laundry room. It's something I've never had in my life, and being able to like keep your laundry separate from the house, it's a luxury in my opinion. So we absolutely love that room. Bro loves his laundry. Shout out to the laundry room. All right, Tom, the time has come. It's time to face the ice bath. There was no way you're getting around this, so Let's get in. This has not got any easier. It is 5 degrees. This is the proof right there, and it's filtered as well, so the water is always clean. It's a proper one, it's a good one. Oh, I know it's about to begin. Pain is about to begin. But the best thing that I do in an ice bath, what I really like, is one, it wakes you the hell up. It is impossible not to feel alive after getting in this bad boy. And when you're in there, there's nothing else you can think of. You're forced to focus on your breathing. So I absolutely love it. It's just a great way to relax. It's a, it's a weird way to relax.

Yeah. All right, so let's go. Oh man, so put the head on there as well. And then shoulders under too. Just focus on your breathing.

Oh, dude, it's like I'm about to cry. It gets easier in the summer, so it's a lot easier too, but it's therapy. It's therapy. So let's do it. Let's do a minute at least.

Yeah.

So do you guys know what I'm on?

All right, okay. Oh baby, oh, here we go.

That is living, that is living. Winter in Marbella, that's what's up. All right, big dog, my turn.

All right, well There you go.

Yes! Good man, putting the head under. Okay, okay, that's 10 seconds done.

How you feeling?

Really, really, um, broken.

Barely speak. Nice. I think once you get your breathing—

exactly, it's the main thing. In 10 seconds we'll have done a minute.

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

He doesn't want to get out of the van yet.

Go, go, go!

So you moving to Marbella? I think we might. Yeah, just move in with me. I think so.

I'll be upstairs.

That dive was way better than mine as well. What the hell?

Thank you so much for that.

All right, so this is such a cool addition to the house. And when we were getting the garden renovated, they're like, do you want us to cut down this tree, open the space up? And I was like, absolutely not. These are the best tasting oranges I've ever tasted in my life. So this is my little gadget here. Okay, should I try them? Yeah, oh yeah, you're trying them. And so I come out here in the morning. See, you can grab a few here, you know, and they're good as well, but the best ones, they're up a little bit higher. So let's see. Oh, that one looks phenomenal. Oh yeah. Oh, that is a good one right there. If the fitness business ever goes under, I'm just going to start Lipsett Oranges, and you're going to see me down in Port Banús selling oranges, and it's going to be great. And by the way, guys, there's just bits and bobs dotted everywhere. This is the house of productivity. We just have some whiteboards around the place. We got the red light therapy, we got the ice baths. We were going to like tidy this up, and I was like, It's real, it's always here. So let me see, I'll just say— all right, there we go. Subscribe on YouTube, that's today's lesson. Easy, my 10-year-old handwriting. And now we're gonna go in and look at the bedrooms and the kitchen as well, two very important parts of the house. Okay, it is orange time. I am so excited for you to try this. Look at that. Oh yeah, that is a juicy one. Look at that right there, like look at the colors off that. You gotta take a bite now. Okay, right, so I eat them just like this. Mmm, oh my God, it's like sweets, it's like candy. Oh my God.

Here, there you go.

Yeah, yeah, that was a very honorable handover. Yeah, how good? It's like better than the shop. Yeah, yeah, of course. Here, there you go.

Rob Lipsett's oranges.

There we go. Yeah, Rob's pancakes, Rob's oranges. You know, we're living off the land here. Mm, insane. The kitchen, it was absolutely tiny to begin with. I mean, so the wall, as you can see, it stopped here, and like the wardrobes, the closets, whatever, the drawers, they came out to here. The kitchen was honestly about this wide. So we're like, okay, we need to open this up. And we were going to knock it down straight to the porch, but then we'd lose this supporting wall here. So we said, how can we open this up as much as possible? And so we made this kind of like arch, which we really like. It added a meter to the kitchen. We went a meter into this wall here. The place didn't fall down, so that was a big win. And the kitchen, now I can twirl around in it with my hands spread. So it's so much room for activities. So much room for making gains as well. And so the kitchen, like, you know, obviously I'm crazy into my nutrition. So kitchen is huge part of the house. So having just like good appliances, like, you know, a good coffee machine, nice Smeg kettle, just a good stove. We got the Ninja appliances over here, the ice cream machine, the air fryer, all that good stuff. Like when I enter into the kitchen, I'm just, I'm in the zone. I find cooking so relaxing, therapeutic. Just trying out a new recipe. So I absolutely love this space. Like, sometimes, sometimes I'll just stand here and I'll just, just relax. I'll just be picking out stuff from the fridge. So this is an area that I love with the marble countertops, and then we just got these tiles added in as well.

What's in the fridge?

All right, so it's looking a little bit unorganized at the moment, but we got all the staples. We got eggs, we got shakers, we got protein milk, we got hot sauce, we got egg whites, we got beef, steak, veggies down here, salads, all that good stuff. So it needs a little bit of organization, but we always keep the staples stocked. And then over here we got the supplement shop. So for me, like, I'm like a kid in a candy store. Like, every day when I'm going to the gym, I come down in the morning, I'm like, what pre-workout am I going to take today? You know, what electrolytes? And I love mixing them all up, and it's It's part of my routine and I—

Professor.

It's just the Professor Rob Lipsett here. And then of course over here we got the most important thing. We got the Fuelcakes. So every day if I can go to the gym, I come home, make a big stack of healthy pancakes, I'm a happy man. Like that's all I want. And if you guys want to try the best macros, the best tasting protein pancakes in the world, fuelcakes.com. Buttermilk is the most popular flavor, Personally, my favorite is the choco hazelnut.

So good. Medicine ball.

I need to get— exactly, we just want weights and pancakes. Like, come on. All right, so over here we got like a super micro cement bathroom. And also, guys, the key to a good relationship, a long-lasting relationship, is at least separate sinks. Separate bathrooms is even better. So this, uh, this room is super easy to keep clean. Like, everything just slides off it, and even the shower as well. We actually got some inspiration from this from staying in Mykonos. Like, if you've ever been, or even Santorini, like, the bathrooms are like big stone contraptions. Like, there's rarely any like glass showers. We have a glass shower upstairs, but we actually really, really like this one. Nice and sturdy as well. So you go in there and you come out, you're clean. That's it. Now we have bedroom 1 and 2. Bedroom 3 is upstairs. But so as you can see, just like a lot of linen, a lot of wooden cupboards. Very early we got like— we always, we always have a dumbbell in reach, you know? Like if you ever need to do some curls, you can just— there's a dumbbell somewhere in the room. It's like a break in case of emergency sign. Exactly. So very nice and airy linen. We've got the linen headboard, uh, the linen cushions. Just, oh man, going to sleep in Villa Lipsett, it's an exciting time of day. So in here, uh, very similar. This bedroom is slightly bigger. It's, uh, I think they're the same width, but this goes a little bit further down. And it's also nice being able to see like the decking and everything out here. Just super airy room and We actually just got new mattresses as well. So bedtime, it's a— you spend a third of your life asleep, so you got to make your room cozy, you got to make it fresh, and get a good mattress as well.

Good advice.

Yeah, it's advice to live longer. All right, so next we're going to go upstairs. And so the house is kind of separated. They asked when we were building it, uh, when we were renovating it, we want to put the stairs in the middle of the living room. This is the original stairs. I really like it. It's kind of like having two houses this and the stairs. I think it looks really cool, like it looks really like summer holidays, especially on a nice day like today. Look at the palm tree popping and everything. This is the stairway to heaven. So this is the solarium. This gets the most insane sun. Like, you come up here— like right now it's wintertime— you come up here, you lie down, and you are a couple shades darker. It's just the angle of the house. I don't know, but just an amazing place to just bake. And we got the outdoor fireplace here. We got the outdoor furniture, I guess you would call this, from Tropois Home. So it's a, I think it's like a Norwegian brand or something, but it's Marbella-based. The guys live here, super nice. And yeah, this spot is just, it's just so nice to, you know, just stare at the views and just, if you're socializing or anything, you come up here have a couple of drinks. Just one of my favorite parts of the house for sure. Oh, of course, of course. Now I haven't attempted to jump in from here yet. I'm like, I'm every day I consider it. Every day I come out and I'm like, is today the day? Probably shouldn't. That's a leap, James. Yeah, you know what, I'm like, get on camera now. All right, so let's go into, uh, this is kind of like my man cave. So it's the biggest bedroom and also my office as well. Very minimal office setup up over there. We have the largest bedroom, we've, uh, bathroom number 3, and then we've just like a nice little chill zone here if you want to do a Q&A, a podcast, whatever. This is a nice place to film that, a lot of air, and it's kind of away from everything else in the house. So I love this space. But so this over here, this is actually really cool. So these are soundboards. So if you're on a call or anything, this absorbs a lot of the echo, so it makes that audio sound really crisp, especially if you're doing like a voiceover for a workout video on YouTube, something. So I'll just come up here, and this was originally actually, I think it was like a mini kitchenette or a walk-in wardrobe or something, and I was like, I need, like, for me to concentrate, I need to just be shoved in the corner. So this is just the working corner. I absolutely love it. Still, you know, if I want to look outside, get some inspiration, I have that as well, but This is just— this is the grind corner right here. I absolutely love it. And then if you come over here, this is by far the biggest bed in the house. I think it's like a Super King or whatever, whatever the top dog is, it's this one. So it's absolutely huge. You can lie here with your partner and you not even touch off each other, not even know she's there. So it's absolutely perfect. We got some nice art here. This is from a Portuguese artist called Menipo here. And then we got more of the wooden wardrobes here to match the rest of the house. But this room, just the bed, especially like the mattress is like sports mattress.

Absolutely love it up here.

All right, Luxury Home Show, it's time for us to part ways. I just want to say thank you so much. For your time and for checking out Bill Lipsett. If you want to see more, head over to my YouTube channel, Rob Lipsett. And again, thank you so much. Keep it real. I'm out of here. Peace.

Hello, Luxury Home Show. My name is Stephanie Zambrano. I'm a civil engineer and a developer. Welcome to my home in Marbella.

Wow.

The house has 4 bars.

4 bars. As you should.

It's truly an entertainment space.