Max Clarkson has felt passionate about health, movement and wellness and the body’s physical potential since his early life playing basketball as a kid, to playing for the University of Ottawa. His fitness journey has taken him through sport, powerlifting, gymnastics, handstands, calisthenics, mobility, rehabilitative exercise, to where he is now blending it all while focusing on floor-based skills like animal flow, handstands and soft acrobatics.

Max connects both personal training and Massage Therapy as hybrid modalities allowing him to serve in a more holistic way than one scope alone.

His methodologies of movement coaching blend teaching the fundamentals of key movement patterns, addressing movement limitations with mobility and myofascial release, and programming strength protocols on a solid foundation of the key movement basics.

With certifications in Animal Flow, personal training, and over a decade of experience as a registered massage therapist, his approach bridges the gap between movement and recovery. Whether you’re dealing with pain, stiffness, or just want to feel more connected to your body, he offers practical, grounded support that meets you where you’re at.

He helps people reconnect with their bodies through mindful movement, blending animal flow, rehabilitative exercise, functional training, and weight lifting.

He has made it his mission to help others unlock their own potential to achieve greater capacities to move and be well.

Max’s current training passion is in gymnastics, handstands, soft acrobatics and animal flow. Blending his developed strength from years of training into floor based movement flow. Remembering that his why is to be embodied, access flow state, play and adventure in nature.

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Nico’s path into coaching grew not just from an early relationship with sport, but from experiencing both the loss and rebuilding of physical capacity over time. After growing up active, years of physically demanding work and long stretches of sedentary, desk-based roles took their toll in different ways. Moving between overuse, underuse, and inconsistency gave him first-hand insight into how easily physicality can erode. His journey back toward resilient, capable movement and re-establishing the strength, coordination, and confidence of his youth led him to Restore Human, where that process continues both personally and professionally.

As a coach, Nico focuses on helping people build strength and mobility for the long term. He is an ISSA-certified Personal Trainer and MovNat Level 1 coach, and his work is grounded in the Restore Human Method emphasizing Physical Literacy as the foundation for long-term strength and creating habits for consistency. He places particular emphasis on building and maintaining muscle to support overall health, physical capacity, resilience, and independence as we age. His coaching prioritizes clear structure, manageable progression, and training that fits into real life.

Outside of coaching, Nico has pursued long-form physical challenges that have shaped how he thinks about training. Twice cycling from Victoria to California, he developed a deep respect for pacing, recovery, and incremental progress. These experiences inform his belief that meaningful physical change comes from patience, adaptability, and the ability to show up consistently over time.

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Coach Keaton hails from the shores of Lake Huron in Southern Ontario. Growing up camping, fishing, exploring forests and biking the trails. Movement and the outdoors were an integral part of his life. Despite never feeling like a natural athlete Keaton persisted in pursing participation in hockey, track and field, football, and rugby.

It ended up being smart gym based training that helped him feel more at home on the sporting field. It resulted in him feeling stronger, more agile and confident, it also gave him exposure to dealing with and preventing injuries.

A hobby turned to a focus of study - graduating In 2017 from Brock University, Keaton finished a Bachelor of Science degree majoring In Kinesiology with Honors.

After graduating, Keaton investigated other careers and traveled through Asia. Eventually he found himself close to his joys of mountains, forests and the ocean, landing in Vancouver BC. The move to Vancouver reignited his passion for movement and physicality, and led him to become a professional personal trainer.

Keaton has experience in numerous clinic and gym settings. His outlook meshed incredibly well with that of the Restore Human team, so when the opportunity arose to work there he dove right in.

As a practicing Kinesiologist Keaton works with people who have general and specific fitness goals, chronic pain, injury rehabilitation requirements, and ICBC claims.

He is an avid photographer and enjoys Brazilian Jiu Jitsu as a regular practice.

Keaton strives to use movement to help people discover both who they are and what they are capable of. He believes that whether injured or not, weak or strong, young or old, you have the ability within you to improve and he wants to help you bring it out.

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