Chisel

Chisel

April 5, 2024

This upper and lower body strength-based class utilizes heavier weights to provide a total body workout with balance, core and strength segment and chisel your muscles.   

Why Try Chisel?  

In Chisel, efficiency and effectiveness are guaranteed for your total body strength goals. Chisel combines upper-and lower-body strength work in an engaging format that maximizes your time as well as your results.  

What Is Chisel Like?  

Michelangelo isn’t the only one sculpting bodies. Chisel layers exercises to incorporate lower body with upper body work, incorporating balance and core challenges throughout. Start with a base exercise, add another layer of upper body strength to bring more muscles into play, then we add another layer of core, balance, increased range of motion or even tempo to intensify the effects.  Because this layering technique builds one exercise on top of the other, you have the choice to stick with a base or layered exercise or take the chisel challenge with the hardest options. Check out Chisel if you’re looking for sculpted, defined muscles.  

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Who Are Chisel Classes Best For? 

All fitness levels are welcome in this total body strength training class to sculpt your muscles.  Options are available for everyone to experience a great workout. Chisel organically progresses from base levels to more advanced so you can choose your level of intensity.  

Is Chisel a Good Workout? 

Training with dumbbells challenges strength, core stabilization, and coordination. The fast pace of the Chisel format builds on a strong lower-body foundation, then adds components to the exercise for complexity and whole-body sculpting. 

  • Strength. Dumbbells can be utilized to challenge the entire body and core strength. Strength training builds bone density, improves body composition, trains posture, and builds power for daily living. 
  • Coordination. Utilization of dumbbells demands more coordination when executing each exercise or drill especially as we compound them. Participants can limit the range of motion or decrease the tempo of the movement until they master the coordination to execute the movement pattern. 
  • Core Stabilization. Using weights challenges core strength and requires core stabilization throughout each exercise. 

How Difficult is Chisel? 

6/10. All fitness levels welcome. Options are available to accommodate everybody. In this class, the exercises are layered, starting with a base exercise, then adding components such as upper body exercises, balance challenges or pacier movement to progress and intensify the base exercise. Chisel offers the opportunity to level up and satisfy both beginners and those in beast mode. 

How Long Is Each Class? 

Chisel takes 30-minutes and strengthens your total body. You’ll feel so strong, chiseled and empowered after 30 minutes knowing you have sculpted every muscle into a masterpiece! 

What Should I Wear? 

Come ready to play. Typically, people wear sweat-wicking clothing that will offer ample coverage and will stay put and allow you to move with ease throughout the range of motion of exercises.  

Cross Training Gym Shoes.  Be sure to wear comfortable shoes that offer support and stability as you lift, squat, and lunge throughout class.   

What do I need to Bring? 

Hydrate, my friend! Make sure you have plenty of water with you.  Also, pack a towel in your gym bag to catch your sweat, as you will be dripping and glistening. Most importantly, bring a great attitude and smile to share. 

people in GF Class

What Types of Strength Classes Are Available?

Band Camp 

Get ready to hear the music of your legs, glutes, and core in Band Camp, where flat bands become the instruments to sculpt your lower body into one lean, muscular powerhouse. Learn the patterns in Band Camp Basics, then advance to the Band Camp Booster level to orchestrate your muscles into a fat-burning ensemble  

Barbell Bound.

Bound for time? Bound for results? You’re bound to raise the bar in this singular workout that combines two types of strength training. Lift your way through barbell sets alternated with bound rounds and burnout sets utilizing heavy resistance bands to produce a grueling workout that will leave you unbelievably strong, focused and barbell bound 

Barre Bootcamp.

Become a lean, mean ballet dancer in this fusion class. Inspired by ballet and strength training, this high intensity barre class targets your arms, core, thighs, and booty to help you create a long, lean dancer’s body. Get ready to feel the barre burn.  

Belly, Butt & Thighs Bootcamp.

Focus on your lower half in this belly-busting, booty shaping, two-part intensive class that features a series of exercise combinations that target, you guessed it – your belly, butt, and thighs.  

Bodyweb with TRX.

Hang from the durable TRX® ropes to push, pull, lift and lower your body through Spiderman moves for a total body suspension workout that also super-strengthens your core.   

 

 

Demolished. 

Get ready to shake things up in this high energy, strength and endurance workout as you shift in a circle from station to station using advanced strength equipment including Tomahawks, Sandbags and Barbells. Recover in the Epicenter with body weight exercises designed to cause tremors throughout your body. Come prepared to be moved!  

Push Point. 

Explore your limits and push your boundaries in this Intense strength-based workout, alternating plyometrics and strength training. The Push Point utilizes Tabata intervals to create a rollercoaster ride of work! Participants alternate blocks of controlled lower body and heavy upper body weight training followed by the adrenaline rush of a power block of plyometric lower body work efforts and lighter upper body sculpting. Pattern the work, then PUSH it: that’s The Push Point! 

people in GF class

Slammed. 

Focus on Strength, Length, Agility and Mobility and get SLAMMED in this hard-hitting high intensity class utilizing Hyperwear sand bells. You’ll slam, push, pull and drag your sand bell through a series of hardcore heavy hitting exercises designed to chisel your body and slam you into shape. 

Top It Off. 

Shape and sculpt every muscle in your upper body in this two-part, heart-pumping workout. Using weights and isometric exercises, you’ll work through a series of sweat inducing exercises to tone and chisel your arms, shoulders, chest, and back.  

Looped In.

Get LOOPED IN to a great workout utilizing the Slastix Loop by Stroops. Shape and strengthen your lower body and chisel your abs in this workout that incorporates dedicated segments of lower body toning, core conditioning and explosive cardio intervals. This workout accelerates in intensity as the class progresses. Are you ready to be IN The LOOP?  

Find a Chisel Class at a Crunch Near You  

If you’re looking to become a strong, fat burning  machine, then Chisel is the absolute right choice for you! Click here to find this class at a Crunch near you!

Not a Crunch Member Yet? Join Or Start Your Free Trial!  

Chisel and other fiercely fun athletic classes are exclusively available at Crunch, make sure you sign up in the app to take a class today!  Not a member yet?  Click here to get your free trial gym pass and give Chisel or any of our other classes a try to see if you and Crunch are made for each other!

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