train
smarter
build the body
balance the mind
transform the human
Strength without mobility leads to imbalance. Calm without power leaves you ungrounded. My approach combines strength training, yoga, and meditation into one practice — giving you the muscle, mobility, and mental clarity to thrive in every part of life.
Health doesn’t happen in a silo. Everything you do in the gym is connected to everything you do outside the gym. Every input has an effect on your output.
By cross-training your physical and mental health, you become a stronger, more centered, more capable human being.
meet
your
instructor
aaron gough
cpt / 200 ytt
As a personal trainer, yoga instructor, and meditation teacher, I work with individual clients, classes, and teams.
Sometimes that means coaching each discipline on its own, sometimes that means blending all three together in one unique format.
My yoga and group fitness classes combine classical asana sequences with exercise science for a well-rounded, functional approach to strength, stretching, and spirituality.
Whether you’re trying to nail your goals in the gym this year, deepen your yoga practice, or find greater clarity in how you think and move, I will help you get there.
PERSONAL TRAINING
This isn’t cookie-cutter fitness. This is training built around you — your goals, your mindset, and the way you move through the world. Together, I’ll help you blend strength training, mobility work, and performance coaching to create results that go deeper than muscle. Because real progress isn’t just about looking strong — it’s about being strong in every sense.
Whether you want to:
Build lean muscle and get stronger
Improve flexibility and joint health
Recover from injury and move pain-free
Increase energy, focus, and confidence
…you’ll get a program built for your body and your life.
Every session is tailored. Every rep is intentional. This is where discipline creates freedom. Where training becomes the foundation for a better, more capable you.
Be a better human.
Fitness isn’t just about lifting heavier. Yoga isn’t just about stretching deeper. Meditation isn’t just about calming down. Real transformation happens when you bring all three together — building strength, flexibility, and focus as one practice.
I take a whole-body, whole-mind approach to health. By realizing that strength training, mobility, and mindfulness are linked whether you’re aware of it or not, I help you develop true clarity — the foundation for a balanced and sustainable life.
Strong muscles don’t mean much if your joints are locked up. A calm mind doesn’t last if your body is run down. My blended system unites strength, mobility, and mindfulness so you can perform at your best — in all areas of your life.
Think of strength, yoga, and meditation as the three legs of a tripod. Take one away, and the whole thing tips over. Having all three in harmony gives you stability and power.
yoga
Yoga is a practice of awareness — of your body, your breath, and the way you move through the world. My teaching blends mindful movement with strength-building techniques, creating practices that challenge you physically while sharpening your focus and calming your mind.
A Deth Yoga class will change your idea of what yoga should look like. It’s not about the poses, it’s about finding the edge where growth happens. It’s about shedding old skin—in the body and mind. It’s about embracing suffering as a portal to strength. It’s awakening to the concept that yoga is metal.
Whether you’re looking to:
Build functional stability so you can move and breathe better
Increase mobility and exist with less pain
Recover from stress, burnout, or injury
Develop a deeper connection between your body and mind
…this practice is designed to meet you where you are and take you somewhere new.
Current yoga schedule:
VASA Sandy: Saturdays @ 4:00 PM
Cottonwood Heights Rec Center: Every other Sunday @ 1:30 PM
Kids yoga at Midvale Community Clinic: Every other Friday @ 5:15 PM
Why is yoga called a “practice?”
Yoga is called a "practice" because it involves a continual process of learning, self-discovery, and improvement. It isn’t a fixed skill, yoga emphasizes the journey of personal growth over time.
If yoga is a practice, what are we practicing for?...
For life. You don’t do yoga to get better at doing yoga—you practice yoga to get better at doing life.
Why practice suffering in yoga?
Suffering is an unavoidable part of life — if yoga only teaches us about peace, how will we learn to cope with suffering when it happens? When we understand that suffering is inevitable, we understand that it is a gift. The gift suffering gives us is strength. As we deepen our understanding of our strength, we find our purpose.
Suffering is not your purpose. Suffering leads you to your purpose. The more suffering we can learn to endure, the stronger we become, and the deeper we understand our purpose.
Yoga will not give you purpose.
It will help you find what is already there.
meditation
Top performers know that success isn’t just physical. It’s mental. Think of meditation as a tool that can train your mind the same way athletes train their bodies: with focus and consistency.
In a session, you’ll learn science-backed techniques to sharpen attention, improve decision-making, and recover faster from stress. It’s both science and magic — and you can build the mental resilience needed to lead at your highest level.
Meditation isn’t about escaping your thoughts — it’s about training your mind to work with precision. You can exist in focus and ease at the same time.
This is practical meditation. Simple, powerful, and built for people who want results they can feel in their work and relationships. Through guided practices, breathwork, and focused awareness training, you’ll learn how to shift your state on demand — from scattered to centered, fatigued to focused, reactive to intentional.
Whether you’re coaching a team, managing an organization, or pushing your own limits, this practice trains you to stay composed under pressure, access deeper creativity, and make better choices when it matters most.
Current meditation schedule:
Evolve Wellness Collective: Mondays @ 12:00 PM
Performance meditation is designed for people who live in the deep end — athletes, leaders, creators, and anyone who refuses to break when pressure hits. We train focus the way others train muscle. Short, deliberate sessions designed to strip away noise, tighten your attention, and build the kind of resilience that outlasts chaos.
No incense. No empty mantras. No “good vibes only” bullshit. Just science-backed techniques that push your mind past its limits — until focus becomes effortless and clarity hits like lightning.
If you’re chasing peak performance, mental training isn’t optional. Your mind is your edge. Train it like one.
It isn’t about floating on a cloud.
It’s about sharpening the blade.
results happen when effort beats excuses
“You can always find more excuses but you can never find more time.”
Hit me up at the contact button below if you’re ready to get started or just have questions about your fitness and health goals. The journey starts the second you fill out the form on the next page. Once you go there, you’ve already taken the first step.