Ironhold
Bandung · Barbell gym · Est. 2016

Sixty members. Eighteen at a time.

A strength gym with a hard cap on how many people are in the room, so you never queue for a rack. Coached sessions, open gym, and a price list that has not moved since 2024.

18Capacity per session
4Coaches, all employed
12Racks and platforms
0Contracts, ever
The gym floor with racks and platforms
The cap is the whole business model Every gym can sell you a membership. Very few will tell you how many other people have one. We stop selling at sixty because eighteen people and twelve racks is the number where nobody waits — and when we are full, we say so and keep a list.
What happens here

Three ways to train

All three are included in the same membership. Nothing here is an upsell and there is no premium tier that unlocks a room.

Strength

Coached strength

Barbell work in groups of eight, coached from the floor rather than from a clipboard. Squat, press, deadlift and the accessories that keep them moving. You are put on a written programme in week one and it changes when the numbers say so, not when you get bored.

Mon · Wed · Fri · Sat · 8 people max
Conditioning

Conditioning

Thirty-five minutes, twelve people, mostly rowing, bike and carries. Built to be hard without being a competition — nobody's score goes on a board, because a board changes what people do on the last round and not for the better.

Tue · Thu · Sat · 12 people max
Open gym

Open gym

Every hour the room is not running a class, which is most of them. A coach is on the floor from 06:00 to 20:00 and will happily watch a set and tell you what they saw, for nothing, because that is the job.

All opening hours · 18 people max
Your first six weeks

What actually happens if you join.

Nobody is thrown into a class on day one. The first six weeks are the same for everybody regardless of experience, because the fastest way to waste a year is to start heavy on a technique nobody has watched.

Week 0

Assessment, 60 minutes, free

Movement screen, a conversation about injuries, and your first written programme. This happens before you pay anything.

Weeks 1–2

Technique, light

Loads you will find insultingly easy. This is deliberate and it is where most of the year's progress is actually bought.

Weeks 3–4

Loading starts

Weight goes on the bar in small steps you could add to for months. You join the coached sessions properly.

Weeks 5–6

First review

Numbers compared against week one, programme rewritten, and an honest conversation about whether the schedule you chose is one you are actually keeping.

A coach watching a lift
Membership

Three prices. No joining fee.

Cancel any month with fourteen days' notice. There is a calculator on the membership page that works out which of these is actually cheapest for the number of times you will really come.

Off-peak

Rp 450.000
Per month · 09:00 – 16:00 weekdays
  • Open gym and any class inside those hours
  • Written programme and six-weekly reviews
  • Rp 60.000 per visit outside the window
  • Nine sessions a month included
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Full

Rp 690.000
Per month · all opening hours
  • Everything, any hour we are open
  • Written programme and six-weekly reviews
  • No session cap and no per-visit charge
  • One guest pass a month
Start a free week

Drop-in

Rp 95.000
Per visit · no membership
  • Any session with a free place
  • Coaching on the floor, same as members
  • Ten-visit block for Rp 850.000, no expiry
  • Sensible if you train here fewer than twice a week
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Members, and that is the cap
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Still here after twelve months
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Years open
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Price rises since 2024
Members

Including the one who left

We asked three people to write something. One of them had already cancelled, and we published it anyway.

“I have been in gyms where you queue twenty minutes for a rack at seven in the evening. Here the worst I have waited is one set, and I have been coming at seven in the evening for two years.”

Dimas · member since 2024

“I came in with a shoulder that had been bad for six years. Week one they gave me almost nothing to lift and I nearly walked out. Eight months later I press overhead pain-free, so.”

Wulan · member since 2025

“I cancelled after seven months — I moved across town and the commute killed it. No fee, no phone call trying to talk me round, and my last month was refunded pro rata without me asking. That is rarer than it should be.”

Bagas · former member, 2025

A free week, and no card details.

Seven days of full access including a sixty-minute assessment, starting on whatever Monday suits you. We do not ask for payment details to book it, and there is nothing to cancel at the end — if you do not come back, that is the end of it.

Book the free week

Four trial places a week. When they are gone, they are gone until the following Monday.