Chisel is coached powerbuilding: a main lift that climbs across the block, then the accessory work that builds muscle and shape around it. Twelve people, so a coach is watching the sets that matter.
A lifter under a loaded barbell mid squat. Close, low camera angle, back and shoulders working, chalk on the bar.
Strength and shape, not grind. Centre safe: this crop trims both sides. Replaces the tex-dumbbell placeholder.
The strength floor: racks, barbells and plates, with two or three people lifting.
Chisel runs across two rooms. If you can get the main floor and the PT Lab in one frame, do.
Chisel is the strength class, and it is honest about the second reason most people lift. Every block is built on one main lift, barbell or dumbbell, squat, press, hinge or pull, programmed so the load climbs from session to session. The accessory work that follows it is chosen to build muscle rather than to add numbers to the log. Powerbuilding, if you want the word for it.
It is the counterweight to the HYROX classes. Engine, Sprint and Complete train the engine; Chisel trains the strength and the muscle underneath it. Most people here do both, which is the entire point of a hybrid gym.
It runs across two rooms:
Half of it. Powerlifting organises everything around getting the main lifts heavier; bodybuilding organises everything around building specific muscles. Chisel takes the progressive main lift from one and the accessory volume from the other, so a block builds strength and shape at the same time.
Chisel is a class: a programme that works for most people, coached, twelve at a time. The PT Lab is one plan written for one body: an injury to work around, a race date, a specific goal on a specific deadline. If you want to lift properly without booking a private session to do it, this is the one.
Need the plan written around one body rather than twelve? That's the PT Lab. Ask a coach.
The main lift is programmed to progress and written down every week, so the load you are working to is a decision from the log rather than a guess on the day.
Accessory volume aimed at the muscles you actually want to change. Not four sets of something tacked onto the end of a workout because there was time.
Heavy lifting needs closer eyes, so the cap is twelve. A coach sees your working sets, the ones where technique actually matters.
A stronger squat makes the sled lighter and the last kilometre cheaper, so the lifting pays straight back into the HYROX classes.
First barbell or fifteenth year, the programme is the same and the loads are yours. You do not need to know how to squat before you arrive. That's the class's job.
Chisel on Tuesday, Engine on Thursday, Complete on Saturday. The strength work and the conditioning run in the same week rather than taking turns.
The block runs for weeks, so the main lift is familiar and the load isn't. The shape of the hour stays the same.
Raise the temperature, then movement prep for the day's main lift. Build-up sets until the working weight feels like the right idea.
Squat, press, hinge or pull, barbell or dumbbell, depending on the block. Coached, loaded properly, and climbing session to session.
Next door for the volume that builds shape. Pulleys, leg press, curls and extensions, whatever the block calls for, at higher reps and shorter rests than the main lift.
Log the numbers, stretch out, done. The log is the part most people skip and the part that makes the next block work.
One main lift, then the work that builds around it.
Scaling: a coach sets your working weight on day one, then it climbs. Nobody starts on someone else's numbers.
An hour, twelve people, coached the whole way. You don't need lifting experience: a coach sets your working weights in the first session and takes you through the movements before you load anything.
Bring trainers, water and a towel. Flat shoes help but aren't required, and we've got the rest. Chisel fills up faster than the other classes, so book ahead.
See the timetable→A coach spotting someone on a main lift, hands close but not touching the bar.
Capped at 12 for a reason. Show the closer attention.
Training for strength and shape at the same time. A heavy main lift progressed over weeks, the way a powerlifter trains, plus the accessory volume a bodybuilder uses to build specific muscles. You get the number and the look.
No. A coach takes you through the lifts and sets your loads before anything gets heavy. Twelve people means there's actually time to do that properly.
Not quite. Bodybuilding organises a session around building specific muscles. Chisel keeps a progressive main lift at the centre and builds the accessory work around it, so the strength climbs alongside the shape.
The HYROX classes train the engine and the race skills. Chisel trains strength and muscle. Different jobs in the same week, which is what hybrid means here.
Chisel, if what you want is to lift properly and see the main lift climb. It is a coached programme that works for most people, twelve at a time, and it costs a fraction of one-to-one. Move to the PT Lab when something about your situation makes a class programme the wrong fit. Plenty of people do both.
Building noticeable muscle takes years of deliberate effort and a lot of food. What you'll notice first is looking firmer and standing up straighter. If you do want more size, tell a coach and the accessory work changes to suit.
Yes. Lifting is what keeps muscle on you while you lose weight, so more of what you lose is fat. What you eat still does most of the work.
Twice a week for most people, alongside Engine and a weekend session. Two lifting sessions is enough to keep the main lift climbing without eating your recovery.
An hour, capped at 12. Heavy lifting needs closer eyes than conditioning does, so it's the smallest class we run.
At REP HYBRID, inside Glo Damansara in Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI). The class is called Chisel. Minutes from Damansara Utama, Damansara Kim, Bandar Utama and Mutiara Damansara, and easy from Petaling Jaya and wider KL.
One athlete deep into a long effort on a rowing erg. Side profile, chest heaving. Sustained work, not explosive.
An athlete driving a loaded sled hard across the turf. Low body angle, motion blur behind. Urgency.
A coach kneeling beside one athlete, hand on the bar, correcting position mid set. Close and quiet.
New here? A pack is the better way in, enough sessions to stop feeling new and start seeing what the training does. Or take a single class if you'd rather test the water.