Bachelor of Science
Awarded the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence — programs grounded in rigorous evidence, not fitness trends.
Founder & head coach
Meet Max
“I started Solve because I know firsthand how transformative focusing on health and fitness can be, not just for your body, but for everything in your life.”
The story
About Max
Max has been training seriously for fifteen years, most of it under some amazing coaches, including Olympians, strength and conditioning staff out of professional rugby clubs, sprint coaches who’d worked with NFL teams, and international-level rugby coaches running the programs he came up through. From these environments, Max has learned how elite training programs are able to build four or five qualities at once: strength, power, aerobic base, movement quality and recovery, all year round, knowing when to dial each component up or down.
That’s the actual skill in longevity training, and it’s why most six-week transformation coaching doesn’t transfer to it. Getting someone lean is a single-variable goal. Keeping someone strong, mobile, balanced and independent into their seventies is a multi-variable goal that requires planning on a yearly scale rather than a six-week scale, and it’s the problem Max has spent his whole career around.
He’s also been to both ends of the physical spectrum himself. Playing front row in rugby he got up to 108kg and was the strongest he’d ever been, and genuinely fit with it, because he finally had good coaching and was eating to support it. Three years later he and three mates ran 80 marathons in 79 days down the east coast of the United States for cancer research, and he came out of that with less muscle on him than he’d had since he was fifteen. Same body, opposite stimulus, completely different outcome.
Neither end is a good place to live. Very heavy and very strong isn’t sustainable and doesn’t age well. Very lean and very aerobic leaves you fragile and susceptible to a range of health issues. What he’s spent the last few years doing, on himself and with clients, is working out how to hold a sensible middle ground to live a balanced and healthy life.
The mistakes taught him a lot about training and nutrition. He spent years under-eating through pre-season because he wanted to look a certain way, and trained worse for it. He later ran a fat loss phase far more aggressively than he’d ever put a client through, got very lean, and felt terrible doing it. He now builds phases the way he wishes someone had built them for him, which is slower, in blocks, with maintenance periods in between so the result actually holds.
On the formal side of qualifications, Max has a Bachelor of Science and a nationally recognised nutrition qualification, and he is a certified personal trainer. He’s worked at Ultimate Performance, an elite personal training business that’s about as rigorous as commercial PT gets, and has coached teams through HYROX and triathlons.
The standards
What’s behind the coaching
Evidence first, then experience — and the willingness to say when something sits outside our scope.
Nationally recognised Nutritionist
With specialist training in sustainable fat loss and body composition.
Certified Personal Trainer
Including time at Ultimate Performance, about as rigorous as commercial personal training gets.
Trained under elite coaches
Olympians, S&C staff from professional rugby clubs, sprint coaches who’d worked with NFL teams, and international-level rugby coaches.
23kg+Lost and kept off
80Marathons in 79 days
12+ yrsBuilding training habits
1:3Coach to client, never more
How we work
Four things we won’t compromise on
Three people. Never more.
The cap is three because past that, coaching stops being coaching. It’s the constraint the whole business is built around, and it’s the one thing we won’t stretch to fit another booking in.
Every program is written by Max.
Any coach delivering a session works to the same standard and to Max’s programming. The plan doesn’t change depending on who’s on the floor that morning.
If we can’t measure it, we don’t claim it.
Strength, mobility, balance, body composition and bone density are all tracked. You should be able to see progress, not take it on faith.
We stay in our lane.
We look after the physical pillars of longevity. Bloods, sleep studies and clinical optimisation belong with your doctor, and we’ll happily coordinate with them rather than talk over them.
Who we work with
Busy, capable people who don’t have time for trial and error
People who want to improve their health, strength and body composition — and would rather follow a plan built by someone who knows what they’re doing than keep guessing.
Plenty of our clients arrive with little or no gym experience. We meet you where you are, build confidence with the fundamentals, and progress at your pace. Others arrive strong but stiff, or fit but plateaued, or coming back from an injury they’ve been training around for years. Every one of them starts with the same movement assessment.
The move to Brookvale
A private gym, not a gym floor
Solve now trains out of Evexia Wellbeing at Unit 1/27 Dale St, Brookvale – a private, fully equipped space with parking on site. No commercial gym floor, no queue for a rack, no music you didn’t choose.
We moved from Freshwater to get the room and the equipment the semi-private format actually needs. Most of our Freshwater, Curl Curl and Queenscliff clients made the move with us; it’s a few minutes down the hill.
Come and see itInside Solve
What a session actually looks like
Real sessions at Evexia Wellbeing, Brookvale. Every movement watched, every client on their own program.
About Solve
Questions about Max and Solve
Who will actually be coaching me?
Every program is written by Max, and he delivers the majority of sessions himself. Other coaches work in some sessions and cover when he’s away — and any coach delivering a session works to the same standard and to Max’s programming.
It’s also why the semi-private cap is three rather than eight: beyond that, the format stops delivering what it promises, regardless of who’s coaching.
What are Max’s qualifications?
A Bachelor of Science (awarded the Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence), a personal training certification, and accreditation as a nationally recognised Nutritionist. Coaching practice was developed under elite industry mentors and specialists.
Why longevity rather than general fitness?
Because the things that determine how well you function at 70 – strength, muscle mass, bone density, mobility and balance – are trainable now and much harder to recover later. Chasing a number on the scale or a single personal best doesn’t protect any of them. See what we track and measure →
Where is Solve based?
At Evexia Wellbeing, Unit 1/27 Dale St, Brookvale NSW 2100, with free parking on site. We’re open 6:00am – 6:30pm. Solve previously operated out of Freshwater, and we still train plenty of clients from Freshwater, Curl Curl, Queenscliff and Manly — it’s a short drive down the hill.
Free 45-minute consultation
Come in and meet him.
The free consultation is 45 minutes with Max – your history, your goals, a movement assessment, and a walk through the gym. No obligation to continue.
Evexia Wellbeing, Unit 1/27 Dale St, Brookvale NSW 2100 · Parking on site