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Training education & mentorship
Three months of online mentorship with 4× Mr. Olympia runner-up Kevin Levrone, alongside continued study of strength training methods and lessons drawn from coaches and lifters including Ed Coan.
✦ Strength for the long game
FORGE YOUR FOUNDATION.
Rediscover your baseline with 18 years of training experience and more than 10,000 hours of self-directed rehabilitation, mobility, preparation and movement practice behind the method.
Build strength, restore mobility and train around real-world limitations with a longevity-first approach in Melbourne's southeast.
18years training experience
10k+hours across rehabilitation, mobility + movement practice
2016focused rehabilitation journey began
BASELINE / CAPACITY / RESILIENCE
Baseline in motion
THE FULL VISUAL STORY.
The Baseline Strength training sequence, preserved as one uninterrupted brand film and updated with current training fragments.
01 / Experience
THE EXPERIENCE BEHIND THE METHOD.
Not a highlight reel. The practical foundation the coaching is built on.
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10,000+ practical rehabilitation hours
More than 10,000 hours across self-directed rehabilitation, mobility, preparation and movement practice over many years. Within that work, a conservative 1,000+ hours have been shoulder-focused and 500+ hours knee-focused. It informs how I coach movement and longevity; it is practical experience, not a claim of clinical diagnosis.
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Qualified foundation
Certified by the Australian Institute of Fitness, with a long-term practical focus on foundational strength, mobility, preparation, resilient movement and training for longevity.
18 YEARS / STRENGTH × REHAB × LONGEVITY
02 / Meet your coach
Zaak Nicholls — Strength coach, Melbourne's southeast
BUILD A BODY THAT HOLDS UP.
My philosophy is simple: build a powerful, resilient body for life. I combine 18 years of training experience with a deep practical focus on strength, mobility, preparation and resilient movement to create programs with clear intent — not just workouts.
- ✓ Longevity-based training
- ✓ Foundational strength first
- ✓ Mobility and stability integrated into the work
- ✓ Melbourne's southeast
STRENGTH BEYOND THE GYM
TRAIN FOR THE LIFE OUTSIDE IT.
The point is not to live in the gym. It is to build enough strength, mobility and capacity for work, walks, weekends, dogs and the years ahead. Baseline uses training as a tool for the life you actually want to keep doing.
03 / Method protocol
YOUR BASELINE IS THE SYSTEM.
Six operating principles. One aim: become harder to break and easier to keep moving.
Rebuild capacity
Training shaped by years of rehabilitation experience, designed to restore strength without treating pain as background noise.
Own your mobility
Access → Control → Load → Own. New range is only useful when you can actively control it, progressively load it and keep it.
Train for longevity
Progress is judged by what you can sustain, recover from and keep doing well over time.
Make it personal
Programming is tailored around your body, history, constraints and goals rather than forcing you into a generic template.
Use consultation properly
Coaching begins with context: what hurts, what matters, what you can recover from, and what a realistic path forward looks like.
Build the baseline
The goal is not to chase random workouts. It is to create a body with enough strength, control and resilience to support the rest of your life.
04 / Coaching protocols
CHOOSE YOUR LEVEL OF SUPPORT.
Remote-first coaching tiers built around your current baseline, recovery capacity and goals.
$100/ month
- ✓ 1× initial video consult
- ✓ Custom training program
- ✓ Weekly check-in by email or text
Most popular
The Baseline Build$180/ month
- ✓ Everything in The Foundation
- ✓ Program updates every 4 weeks
- ✓ Basic performance optimisation guidance
$250/ month
- ✓ Everything in The Baseline Build
- ✓ Weekly 30-minute strategy / mindset video call
- ✓ Priority support
Remote coaching available Australia-wide. Limited in-person sessions are available by arrangement across Melbourne's southeast / Mornington Peninsula.
New clients complete pre-exercise screening before coaching begins. Baseline Strength provides exercise programming and general fitness coaching; it is not physiotherapy, medical diagnosis or medical treatment.
05 / Your next move
READY TO BUILD YOUR BASELINE?
Start with a conversation. Tell me what you want to get back to, what currently gets in the way, and what support would be most useful.