Hi, I'm Aaron Kline and welcome to Tyr Fitness.

I look forward to meeting you personally and introducing you to The Pack. Here are some details that might help you decide if joining The Pack is something you're excited about.

​Am I a good fit for the pack?

Most of us have considered personal training before, but not everyone considering training is a good fit for the pack. The Pack is for you if you are looking to make a serious commitment to yourself, to me and to your fellow pack members to live a better quality of life. You can make this commitment from any stage of physical fitness (from couch potato to shredded), at any age (from 16-80), or from any level of experience (what's a gym? to gym rat). This is not about where you are - it is about where WE are going. And we are going to a better life. One where our knees and backs don't ache every morning, where we don't have to cringe at the thought of attending a class reunion, where we can spend the day moving our neighbors furniture or chasing around our favorite rugrat, where exercise is challenging but exciting, where we can push one another, laugh with one another, get real with one another and celebrate with one another.

What are the benefits of joining The Pack?

NASM Certified. I am a National Academy of Sport Medicine Certified Personal Trainer. That means that I have been educated and rigorously tested in all of the scientifically backed forms of exercise. It means that what I teach is not a fad or a gimmick. It is not a one-size fits all approach. It means I know what exercises will suit you, your strengths, your limits, your time and your goals. You can rest assured that training with The Pack will be safe and effective.

My commitment to you. If you are accepted into The Pack, you now have a Pack Leader. My role as Pack Leader means I know where you are on your fitness journey at ALL times. There is no wandering off, getting lost or giving up. Not without your phone being blown up asking where you've been and how you are doing. It also means you will never have to discover or celebrate your victories alone. Pack leaders notice.

A community. The Pack is my community and I am fiercely protective of it. If you are one of us, we are in this together. We support each other, find each other, work with each other and celebrate each other. This can take the form of working out on the same schedule with fellow pack members, attending special pack events, or simply recognizing each other as you pass in the gym to say hi or check in. As a pack member you belong.

The Pack

The Pack is my community. It is the term I apply to all of my clients. It is made up of people from all walks of life, who started from various levels of fitness. What unites the pack is our shared commitment to one another,

ourselves and our community. We value our physical health and it's impact on our ability to fully and actively engage in life. We value our friends and family and

the role our fitness plays in being there for them when they need us. It's also great to feel confident you look fantastic in a new pair of jeans. The Pack is the heartbeat of Tyr fitness. They are my passion - their lives, their stories, their transformations.

I am certified as a personal trainer by the national Academy of Sports Medicine. In addition, completed a specialization in Senior Fitness from NASM. I also completed the NASM courses on goniometrics, integrated flexibility and neuromuscular stretching. I have also extensively studied suspension training, H.I.I.T., kettlebells, calisthenics, functional training, and more.

My story starts at the bottom of a crippling depression, with a phone call announcing the unexpected death of my sister. Sitting there, on the floor, morbidly obese, in chronic physical pain, and emotionally overwrought, I realized that I had a choice. I could continue to live out of my depression and cause my niece and nephew to loose yet another important figure in their lives or I could take the path toward a better life. At first, my fitness story had absolutely nothing to do with my own self-worth or ambition. It was about realizing that my routine decisions to slowly decay were costing someone other than me - the people I loved and the people who loved me. This was unacceptable to me. They had lost enough.

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I wanted to get up off of that floor and be the man they needed in their life. I wanted to be a combination of Marcus Aurelius, Jean Val Jean and Richard Francis Burton (he's not the actor). But I was none of those things. I was tired and sick (I smoked daily at that point). I ate terribly. I never exercised. I rarely smiled. This was going to take a lot of work.

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That day was March 25, 2009.

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And let me tell you what, it was A LOT of work. And it was nothing like the Biggest Loser. In the beginning, it was fear, feelings of inadequacy, despair, doubt, and the smallest twinkle of hope. In the middle it was growing confidence (did that woman just check me out!), boredom (I cannot run around this lake one more time) and learning I'd done about a thousand things wrong (what you mean you have to balance muscle groups?!). Now, now it's both background and passion. Background means I just know what it means to take care of myself as part of daily life. I'm 120lbs slimmer, my knee and back pain are managed well, and I am a whole lot closer to the man I wanted to be on that floor. Even so I still drink so much coffee that when I'm cremated I'll probably smell like French Roast. Get a few too many rum and Cokes in me and I'll want to wrestle you on the living room floor then refuse to go to bed (that might be fun for your wife and friends at 22 not so much at 42.) And I bet that Marcus Aurelius, Jean Val Jean and Roger Burton never had their wives chuckle and tell them, "Sometimes you're such a nerd" when they finished a ten minute speech on some book or movie or game.

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I also have a life now. I met my wife and we formed a family. I'm a father (of both the human and furry variety). I am loving uncle. I can wrestle and play. I carry heavy bags of dog food in from the grocery store and I can do yard work without wanting to vomit or pass out. I am alive. I am happy.

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And now I am a personal trainer. I do this because I cannot think of anything more meaningful than helping other people make the kinds of changes I made. I want to give the gift I found to you and to your family.

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