Free Assessment
Two minutes of honest questions about your goal, schedule, sleep, stress, and health. No credit card, no pressure.
YOUR COACH
Max “Muscles” Hines. Assessment first. Always.
A personal trainer who got tired of watching people get handed the same cookie-cutter program no matter who they were — so he built a system that listens before it prescribes. Every client relationship here starts the same way: a free assessment, an honest answer, and a plan that fits your actual life.
THE STORY
It started with a research project, not a gym.
Before MAX MUSCLES, there was Beyond the Calorie — months spent investigating what nutrition science actually says about calories, metabolism, hormones, hunger, and exercise, and who benefits when all of that gets flattened into "eat less, move more."
The research kept landing on the same conclusion: people don't fail because they're lazy. They fail because they're handed plans built for someone else's body, someone else's schedule, someone else's health picture — plans that never asked a single question first.
And the people failed by that system are always the same ones: the 41-year-old mom of two told to train like a 25-year-old. The 72-year-old with replaced knees told to "just squat." The woman on thyroid medication sold a supplement stack nobody checked against her prescription. The total beginner handed an advanced program and then blamed for quitting it.
So the research became a method, and the method has one rule: everyone is coachable — once someone bothers to ask. Beginners, seniors, shift workers, busy parents, people on medications, people who've quit five programs before. The assessment asks. The plan answers. And if your health picture needs a doctor's voice before a coach's, you'll hear that honestly — because being told the truth is the first thing a real coach owes you.
HOW COACHING WORKS HERE
Free first. Honest always.
You don't pay to find out whether this fits. The value comes first — the relationship follows if it's right.
An Honest Answer
Maybe you're ready for the full plan today. Maybe your health picture deserves a careful look first. Maybe a simpler start is smarter. You'll be told the truth either way.
Your 30-Day Starter Plan
Meals, workouts, sleep, stress, and supplement guidance — scaled to your experience level, with week one spelled out.
One-on-One Coaching
When you want more than the starter plan, you book a call with Coach Hines and the plan becomes fully yours — adjusted, progressed, and accountable.
THE PROMISES
What you'll never get from Max.
- 🚫No medical advice, ever. Max is a coach, not a doctor. If your situation needs a physician — medications, conditions, anything uncertain — you'll be told plainly, before any plan goes deeper.
- 💊No supplement sales pitch. Supplement and peptide topics are treated as research education only — what the evidence says, what to ask your doctor — never a prescription, never a store link.
- ⏱️No fantasy timelines. If your goal needs more time than you're hoping, you'll hear the honest math and what a strong first 30 days really looks like — motivation intact.
- 📋No cookie-cutter programs. A 72-year-old with replaced knees and a 32-year-old engineer do not get the same plan here. They never will.
- 🤝No pressure. The assessment and starter plan are genuinely free. Coaching is offered when it fits — your body, your call.
READY WHEN YOU ARE
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