Chiseled Life Gym

Fantastic experience: Very welcoming, and a very comfortable environment.

Fantastic experience: the body builder by the back door are always annoying but signing up dylan was super helpful and inviting.

Fantastic experience: Love this gym! It’s very clean, the equipment is nice, the staff is friendly and it’s open 24hours.

Fantastic experience: The gym has everything you need. Well stocked. Ryan is great to work with. A wealth of knowledge.

Fantastic experience: Great environment to be in. Everybody is inclusive. The gym provides nutrition and recovery which are essential. All around amazing place to be in.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, love the staff and environment. Very clean and well-kept place.

Negative experience: The gym is dirty and smells bad!!! When the equipment gets out of service, it takes for ever to get it fix. They have broken mirrors for months. Always, at least one of the treadmills is broken.

Negative experience: I came in for a walk through, all good. They said I can come in for a one time free pass from 7 - 7. I came at 7 the next day like I told them I would and no employees are here to let me in. I rung the bell and called. I did not leave until 725am and still no employees

Fantastic experience: Really solid gym with great Arsenal equipment.

Negative experience: Many Howard County Police members Edit: Gym supports Israel and is unusable at times due to tripod kids and streetlifters. Back door has been broken for months and as a result I've almost been run over by Hyper Kidz patrons

Fantastic experience: If this gym was a sandwich, it would be a turkey sandwich. But! It would be a very nice turkey sandwich made of the best ingredients from the farmer’s market. Two basic ingredients for a good gym are equipment and a healthy/positive environment. This gym of course has both of those things but it’s just better. There’s equipment here that’s difficult to find in most commercial gyms like a belt squat and the rogue reverse hyper rh-2. For equipment you can commonly find in commercial gyms, chiseled’s gym equipment is simply better since they have arsenal equipment. I’ve been a member for almost 2 years now and found practically everyone to be friendly here. The management team and staff have been great too. I appreciate that they are constantly improving the gym. Anything from rearranging the layout of equipment to major projects like updating the floors and lights. Also I had a billing issue where I was at fault since my credit card expired and I failed to update my info. I was willing to eat the auto penalty fee, but I was refunded the amount after updating my info with the help of the staff who kindly notified the owner. Just like a turkey sandwich, a gym can be just as basic; four walls, roof, barbells, weights, and people. This gym might be made of the same ingredients as others, but it’s not of the same quality. It’s a good gym.

Negative experience: I like the gym and has the best equipment. But the air quality is bad especially with the garage doors up. Air full of dust, pollen and chalk and there aren’t any air purifiers of any kind. I guess I can’t work out during allergy season

Fantastic experience: Great gym!

Fantastic experience: Clean gym. Not too crowded in the mornings. Positive community.

Negative experience: One of the best gyms in Columbia as far as hours and equipment but the culture gets old really fast. They encourage recording and tripods and it’s so packed at peak times with the younger crowds lifting in herds it’s hard to get your workout in from 5–9pm. The service is pretty terrible and their guest wifi rarely works. They have an entire room dedicated to posing but it feels like every time you turn around you’re in the background of someone’s iPhone recording and that’s disappointing for anyone just trying to get their workout in and go home.

Fantastic experience: Great space and range of equipment. Been going here about a year now

Fantastic experience: To say I love this gym is an understatement! I specifically ask for work travel assignments so I can train here. Incredible variety of equipment, great staff, and the cleaning wipes for the machines even smell amazing. I absolutely love that they have a posing room, which is being updated along with the recent renovations and deep clean. It’s an environment where you can be very focused on your training or be more social, mostly young people but I have seen plenty of older folks too.

Negative experience: Honestly this gym is way to over hyped. Ive been a member here for about a month. Id rather go to pure fitness and if your from the area you would know that gym is almost like planet fitness. Im not trying to put this gym down because i do like the atmosphere and all the flags they support, but that is all. It is so pact that you cant barely move. The equipment sucks. If you want to spot who your working out with well your gonna be literally standing on someone else. Ill give you some of the best advice. If you want to go to a gym for the same price with some of the best equipment to date go to DMV iron, or golds in glenburnie. Also the sauna is a 1 person sauna and it might hit 100. This gym needs a upgrade on their stuff that people come for like the equipment and sauna not new floor. Gotta get the priorities straight.

Negative experience: Music playing has too much profanity and is very disrespectful to my wife who is black. The N word popping out of the music along with the B word. High school kids would have made out if my wife and I weren’t training in the room where we were. Equipment is what we need however atmosphere is not open.

Fantastic experience: I love this place, and anyone who gives it less than 5 stars is bananas! Best equipment in the entire state of Maryland. Best attitude, clean, and friendly. I drive a half hour to come here on my days off just for the greater variety of equipment and far friendlier clientele. Wish I could come here everyday.

Negative experience: This gyms community is amazing and some of the staff are nice, but the pricing here, the cleanliness, and the way they take extra money out of my account has thrown me way off. I was paying 40 a month and then it got upped to 55 out of no where and then 65 and then when I asked for a refund they said they would fix the issue within a week. I then check my bank account 5 days later to see another charge of 40 dollars not even 10 days apart from the 65 dollar charge. I called again and told me the same thing “I will talk to the manager about it” hopefully this issue gets fixed but this left me a huge inconvenience with needing gass money at the current momen and the management shows no urgency to fix the issue and it seems to be common with others as well that I know.

Negative experience: I enjoyed this gym atmosphere, community, and equipment, but recently Chiseled Life Gym has been going on a massive decline. The bathroom is one of the biggest issues as there is minimal locker space, the sauna is subpar, and the urinals wreak. The owner clearly does not listen to recommendations and feels as if it is necessary to up prices without making improvements to the gym. Claiming that these changes take time is an excuse, as these issues have been addressed by members and even the staff are aware.

Negative experience: Good selection of equipment but the service and facilities could improve. The locker rooms changing ares feels very congested and you’ll have to maneuver and mind your shins through the cramped plate loaded machines. A lot of the selectorized machines require maintenance and/or are missing parts. The bench seats are far beyond worn. Disinfectant wipes/bottles are often not stocked which I found to be the most surprising. The cell service isn’t great in the building and the Wi-Fi often was unavailable. For the cost I did not find the facility to meet the caliber of standards I had anticipated.

Negative experience: This gym would be great if the owner wasnt awful and actually listened to feedback. I left a review on yelp because the equipment was as always out of service and nothing was being fixed and instead of coming to me she went through someone else to cancel my membership. Come to find out i was banned all because i expressed my opinion and was genuinely trying to help since i would go “2-3 times” a day DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

Negative experience: Terrible place horrible experience

Negative experience: Shoutout to the staff. Great people. Best gym in columbia Edit- the Instagram/ tripod culture is too much sometimes.

Positive experience: Love the gym, just wish the people and rules were better regulated

Negative experience: I really loved this place, the problem is canceling. I asked to cancel and they continued to charge me for 2 months. I then fought them for 8 months to get my money back. During this time I was told they they would contact their manager about the issue. Nothing happened. I continued fighting and was told it escalated to the owner. Again, nothing happened. I had to resort to credit card charge backs, which I won. Even with all this, from what I can tell I am still $40 short. I've given up fighting it at this point. Absolutely ridiculous. Immediately take your card off your account to avoid this nonsense. Unfortunately, given this issue, won't be coming back.

Positive experience: Was an interesting experience going Chiseled. I encountered this person who went by the name of “John”. He looked like an acme cartoon character. He walked up next to me on the treadmill and tried to sell me this certification called a “Three Point Project Management Program.”

Fantastic experience: Great gym facility for power lifters! Staff very friendly and helpful

Fantastic experience: Great staff.

Positive experience: I love this gym and have been coming for years now, however the music is always WAY too loud. I appreciate the effort to create a positive environment but when I can’t hear my workout partner or even my own music in my headphones because the staff want to play their own music after I’ve asked for it to be turned down repeatedly, it detracts from my desire to patronize this gym.

Negative experience: Ashley was rude on the phone when I was asking questions about their membership and then she hung up on me. When I called back she did not even bother picking up the phone. I’m glad I found out the staff was rude as hell before spending my money here.

Fantastic experience: This place is home, a bodybuilders haven, staff is friendly, equipment is premium, the membership is affordable, supplement store on deck. it can get packed but there are a lot of good ppl in there and everyone is respectful so it’s easy to communicate.

Negative experience: 5 star gym with a 0 star cleanliness for the locker room, especially the shower area. This shower hasn't been properly cleaned in months. I mentioned it to 3 different front desk workers and nothing has been cleaned still. I was told that cleaners come every Sunday. Gym is amazing but seeing these pictures makes you cringe a bit.

Fantastic experience: Great spot, cleanliness is prioritized and gym goers are courteous and respectful.

Fantastic experience: Phenomenal gym. Highly recommend.

Positive experience: Nice environment, good price, CrossFiters you can find everything that you need for your wod, it would be nice if they add some more shower.

Positive experience: Nice environment, good price, CrossFiters you can find everything that you need for your wod, it would be nice if they add some more shower.

Fantastic experience: Great gym. Great people. Great equipment. Great atmosphere. I love it here. It's my home away from home. Beats every single other gym in Maryland. 45/10 stars.

Fantastic experience: Best gym in Columbia

Fantastic experience: I like this gym! People are nice and it has plenty of equipment. Also, at one point I had cancelled my membership and I can say that cancellation is super easy. Only gripes are that the parking situation can be annoying and some people don't wear their masks properly (covid). But I really think you can't do better. It's a great gym.

Negative experience: I know someone who used to go to this gym. He said he felt very intimidated by an employee, feared for his safety, and has not been back since.

Negative experience: I joined this gym excitedly hoping to become stronger, but I was diagnosed with a chronic illness that prevented me from using the facilities. Never stepped foot in the gym, not even once. When I realized the billing was automatic and still going, I contacted them immediately to cancel my membership (four months into it, money down the drain). They were helpful and I thought I had cancelled my membership successfully since I never heard anything more after sending in the cancellation form. Turns out I was wrong, the automatic billing had failed and no one told me. I am leaving this review due to that lack of communication. A few weeks later my bank account unexpectedly over-drafted since they took out that final payment manually on a random date between paychecks, without contacting me. For someone who never used your gym, I sure did give you folks a lot of money. The least you could have done was send me an email before taking money out of my account.

Positive experience: I can’t listen to music while lifting, because their WiFi can’t handle a room of about 15 people. My music is important to me, and I do not want to download my music, since it changes a lot. Their equipment is nice and the staff is very friendly and accommodating.

Fantastic experience: Great gym in Columbia MD. Lots of equipment to have fun with. Great community of people and athletes and the owners are amazing!

Fantastic experience: Everyone is friendly and helpful. Highly recommend.

Fantastic experience: amazing vibe & energy, huge range of equipment- there is literally everything you need. Staff is all AMAZING and as a woman I feel safe working out here at all times of the day-- everyone is super respectful plus security cameras everywhere

Fantastic experience: Great powerlifting gym. The clientele skews young for gyms in the area. I’d say most people here are early/mid twenties. All I really look for in a gym is plenty of equipment and cleanliness. This gym meets both. I’ve never waited for a piece of equipment. Even when going at 5-7pm on weekdays, which is amazing. Probably 15 or so racks and 3 deadlift platforms. The only thing I don’t always get on are the deadlift platforms. The kids usually have them locked down at peak hours and rotate between themselves. Luckily they have tons of bumper plates to use in the CrossFit area. Everything here is really clean and easy to navigate. Overall, this gym is easily the best I’ve been to in the area.

Fantastic experience: The community is all about helping each other and not every man for himself. Most gyms only have one machine per technique where as chiseled has hundreds upon hundreds of bars, weights, treadmills and anything else that you need. From calisthenics to weightlifting they have it all!

Fantastic experience: Large gym with a very large selection of free weight, machine and functional fitness equipment to choose from. The gym is more oriented towards strength so there isn’t a huge assortment of cardio machines to choose from, which isn’t a con, just for your awareness. Lots or strength racks, a large functional fitness area and also a carpeted room for other calisthenics. All for a very reasonable price.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym it's my home away from home. I get a beautiful work out every time

Fantastic experience: Awesome gym! Tons of space, quality equipment, lots of racks for the busy times and every conceivable peice of leg equipment which most places done have. We stopped in to check it out and had a brutal leg workout on some pieces we don't normally have access to. Then we made use of the posing room which is also set up perfectly. These people know what they're doing. Def check it out!!

Positive experience: A friend recommended me to start working out at Chiseled. It only took me one time to try it out, to switch gyms. I’m extremely happy to workout there. Staff are very friendly.

Fantastic experience: Best gym I’ve ever been a member of. State of the art equipment. Friendliest staff ever. Clean and professional.

Fantastic experience: I'm not even sure what some of the machines are for. They have everything you can think of. Great music.

Fantastic experience: Such an awesome gym! The equipment is top notch and the people are great.

Fantastic experience: I love this gym

Fantastic experience: I’ve been to several gyms in the past that highlight or focus on certain areas of fitness (functional, powerlifting, cardio) but this place has everything you could ever need. I would recommend anyone go and give Chiseled a try!

Fantastic experience: I love this gym! If you are looking for a great gym to get your lift on this is the pace! The staff is very friendly and so are the people who train there.

Fantastic experience: Love the gym, the people and a friendly staff. Amazing equipments and well maintained

Fantastic experience: A gym to get a good workout not one where you are pretending to work out

Fantastic experience: Well there’s a lot of gyms around so let’s start from the top, Management: Cool people who love fitness, Location: in the back of the industrial area which means you can even do work outside and not be bothered by traffic, Inside: Apparel, Supplements, Dope equipment, Room for functional workouts and group sessions, studio, kids room, Music: you don’t need headphones cuz they don’t play Celine Deion or Justin Bieber. Easily best gym in Columbia. I wonder how it would rank in MD ... well would definitely be top 5. If you haven’t been, then you are shortening yourself of a great experience.

Fantastic experience: Good selection of equipment for any strength athlete, clean, organized, and a friendly staff

Fantastic experience: One of the best gyms around, maybe even in the state of Maryland! Top notch equipment, excellent atmosphere, friendly staff. This gym has it all. All of the amenities of a commercial gym, without any of the unnecessary rules. When the weather is nice and they pop open some of their large garage doors, it doesn't get any better than that!

Fantastic experience: By far one of, if not the, best gyms in Maryland. Perfect for all walks of life with great equipment and an even better environment for diehard gym-goers and even the everyday person looking to improve overall health. Highly recommend taking the trip, will not disappoint!

Fantastic experience: Great gym awesome atmosphere!

Fantastic experience: This gym is absolutely amazing. A lot of time went into making this one of the top gyms in Maryland!! State of the art equipment, friendly staff and awesome members that are very friendly. If you are looking for a gym that will help you in your fitness journey, you want to come here!

Fantastic experience: I love this Gym ! It is clean and welcoming ! Best gym in town . It just opened and I cannot wait to become a member there !! Pls do yourself a favor and check out this gym:) you won’t regret it !!

Fantastic experience: Clean, great equipment, very knowledgeable and cheerful staff Motivating !