with Maximilian Karlsböck
The AVIVA make friends hotel believes in the principle of balance: “Only when body, mind, soul, nutrition and awareness are in harmony can a person live life to the full!”
There is more to your body than you realise today.
Everything is connected to everything else – even within your body. Just as cogs interlock, your bones, muscles and tendons mesh together, giving you stability and balance. Almost without you even realising it. Yet for most people, somewhere in the body, one cog does not mesh precisely with the next. Very few are in true balance. The confusing thing about this is that your body rarely aches where the cause lies. It is not about fighting enemies or illnesses, but about resolving the consequences of imbalance.
The aim is to improve your health awareness and your health promotion during your stay. Illness can arise when one of the areas – body, mind, soul or consciousness – becomes unbalanced due to stress, thereby negatively affecting your immune system.
A strong and strengthened immune system is better able to cope with and overcome a potential infection with the Covid-19 virus. That is why health-compromising imbalances should be resolved as quickly as possible.
Throughout your health retreat, Maximilian Karlsböck and the AVIVA therapy team will focus on the following aspects of health: Viewing general fitness, stamina, strength, emotions, mental well-being, stress management, weight management, pain patterns, clinical presentations and nutrition from a new perspective – and thus bringing your health into balance. Everyone is different, and everyone’s goals are different; that is why the entire programme is tailored specifically to you.
Your personal initial assessment:
- Introductory consultation: covering your current state of health, your wellbeing and your individual goals.
- Assessment of your general state of health: using kinesiology and a biofeedback analysis via Bio-Scan, which reveals more than 150 bodily parameters in your current state.
- Muscle function test: throughout the entire body, as well as a foot analysis.
- Endurance and movement analysis: including video analysis of your running and walking gait, as well as your posture.
- Drawing up a treatment plan: and a targeted muscle training plan for under- or overworked muscle groups. The exercises will be demonstrated to you and practised with you for use at home (filmed on request).
- Personalised training and endurance plan: tailored to your defined goals for home use.
- Review of your blood test results: (please have this carried out by your GP in advance).
- Final consultation: covering the key insights and tips for your everyday life.
Your health is our priority – let’s work on it together!
Possible areas of focus: FINALLY pain-free, the path to your target weight, Far Eastern forms of exercise, living with herbs, the fascination of pilgrimage, the body as an asset, learning forms of exercise, and much more.
Information about the coach: (you’re welcome to contact the coach directly in advance)
Maximilian Karlsböck (Email: max@fitnesscoach.at, Tel: +43-676-3283601)
Who else is coming?
Just ask in the AVIVA make friends community to see who’s coming, get to know each other in advance and arrange to travel together.
AVIVA’s inclusive services
- Accommodation in a modern, south-facing MehrBlick room with a view of the Alps
- Free use of the AVIVA spa area & activity programme including on arrival and departure days
- Generous breakfast buffet featuring regional produce from 7.30 am to 10.30 am (until 11.00 am at weekends)
- AVIVA Sweet & Sour Snack also on arrival and departure days, featuring soups, a variety of salads, hot snacks, tarts and cakes, coffee and fruit from 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm in the restaurant and on the hotel terrace in warm weather
- All-day fruit bar in the AVIVA bookTok and in the wellness area
- Extensive library, magazines and newspapers in the AVIVA bookTok with a coffee corner and access to the AVIVA onlinethek featuring hundreds of magazines and newspapers from around the world
- 6-course AVIVA make friends dinner with a choice of 3 different main courses, an extensive salad buffet and a cheese counter, as well as a weekly barbecue buffet featuring Austrian specialities, served at large communal tables where you can mingle with other guests. Various culinary highlights such as BBQs, street food, Mühlviertel alpine dinners, etc. at themed events. Food intolerances are happily accommodated upon prior notification.
- Predominantly regional produce with a maximum transport distance of 50 km
- Free use of the 2,000 m² wellness & spa area on the day of arrival and departure: Indoor pool, sauna area with earth sauna, Finnish sauna, soft sauna, infrared cabin, caldarium, relaxation room, tea, juice and fruit bar, and solarium (for a fee)
- Several times a week sauna infusions and steam bath scrubs in the Finnish sauna, earth sauna
- Bath bag containing a bathrobe, sauna towels and bath towels
- Modern fitness centre with Technogym equipment, including a BodyCoach Vibro, treadmill, spinning bike, ergometer and strength training equipment
- Bright wellness room equipped with various stretching, strength and fascia training machines
- Large wellness garden with sun loungers, a swimming pond, an outdoor hot tub, relaxation and social areas, a beach volleyball court and a table tennis table
- Several times a week, get-togethers at the hotel’s various venues
- A varied indoor & outdoor sports programme every day (except Sundays), led by a professional fitness trainer
- Use of the hotel’s own Nordic walking poles, mountain bikes (in summer) and cross-country skis, snowshoes and curling stones for the hotel’s own curling rink (in winter), as well as the option to hire modern e-bikes for a fee (subject to availability; please book in advance)
- Opportunity to take part in beer brewing and the brewery tour
- Dance Club for partying with a DJ from Thursday to Saturday
- Authentic alpine atmosphere at the AVIVA Alm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
- Broadband Wi-Fi internet connection throughout the hotel, table football and darts
- Free secure car park directly in front of the hotel with 6 electric vehicle charging points – 22 kW/h with Type 2 plug
- Affordable shuttle service on Sundays and Wednesdays to/from Linz Central Station and on Fridays to/from Passau Central Station
- Free platform for a car-sharing scheme for coordinating your own holiday arrival and departure with other guests
- Free access to the AVIVA make friends online community – an online platform to stay in touch with or get to know other guests
- Free access to the AVIVA online guestbook – an online platform to see who else is staying at the hotel during your stay
- Comprehensive sustainability and energy-saving measures
- A wide range of measures to ensure professional working conditions for the approximately 70 staff members
Bookable
- 7 12 to 12 December 2025
- 8 March to 13 March 2026
- 10 5 to 17 May 2026
- 31 May to 5 June 2026
- 13 9 to 18 September 2026
- 6 December to 11 December 2026
Also bookable for individual dates subject to consultation with the trainer and availability.