Welcome to Fitness & Function

Specialists in Exercise for Mature, Midlife, Older Adults

and younger individuals with medical conditions

In-Home and Virtually

Personal Training, Private Physical Therapy, Health Coaching

When wellness and fitness services individually tailored to meet your unique need is what you are looking for, then you have found the right place. We deliver well-designed, evidence-based exercise prescriptions and programs for mature, midlife, older adults, active agers and youth with medical conditions. We provide in-person and at home personal training, virtual training, health coaching and private physical therapy. We help meet the unique wellness and fitness needs of our clients to live their life to the fullest their way.

Fitness & Function is a small business based in Portland Oregon in operation since 2003 and is the recipient of the 2019 Best of Portland Award in the Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers category.

We created the business model that is based on

the old fashioned house call where the client is the primary focus.

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What we do

Active and Vibrant Aging

Most older adults want to remain independent in their own home living vibrant and active life for the remainder of their lifespan. To be able to do this you need to stay physically strong, be functionally able to perform daily living tasks and be cognitively capable.

Whether your goal is optimizing and maintaining a high level of fitness and health, active and vibrant aging, reducing your risk for developing chronic illness, better manage and treat medical conditions, exercise oncology, restoring physical function, delaying and slowing down the aging process, preserving brain health and the physical ability to function well in older years, balance an mobility training, falls prevention, preventing frailty, or
pre- and post- op exercise for successful knee or hip replacement?
We have helped many clients achieve and maintain their wellness goal.

Exercise Training for Youth with Autism

Fitness & Function provides exercise solutions for youth with medical conditions such as autism. spectrum disorder We incorporate six evidence based practices for autism. Parents rate exercise as the Number 1 treatment for autism.

Passionate Health and Fitness Professionals

The health and fitness professionals with Fitness & Function are passionate about helping clients live vibrant and active lives. We develop customized programs tailored to each client's health, fitness, medical status, wellness goal and need. Start your journey with us and give yourself the best chance for living a long, active and healthy life.

Our health and fitness professionals meet with clients once, twice, three, to even five times per week, every other week or once a month. We meet clients at their private home, senior residence or virtually on line. A regular and consistent regimen of targeted exercises combined with healthy lifestyle habits contribute to the best outcome in achieving wellness goals and long-term independence.

The benefit of having a skilled exercise trainer who by the nature of his/her profession can detect small but important changes in motor function that patients, relatives, or clinicians themselves may not be able to detect in the early stages of a developing medical condition such as brain metastases in a cancer patient, or changes in movement with someone at risk for stroke or TIA’s. In early stages when detected this may prolong life or prevent further loss of quality of life. This highlights the importance of proper qualification and education, especially for supervising people with chronic diseases like cancer and those at risk for stroke, and the advantages of supervised exercise training several times per week where the trainer knows how your body functions and responds.

Fitness & Function is accepting applications for a personal trainer who specializes in older adult and geriatric exercise to accept clients for in-home training in Portland, Milwaukie and Happy Valley areas.

Certified, Accredited and Licensed

As Accredited and Certified Fitness Professionals ACSM Exercise Physiologist, ACE Medical Exercise Specialist, ACSM/ACS Cancer Exercise Trainer, ACE Health Coach, ACE Personal Trainers, Brain Health Trainer, Balance and Mobility Specialists, and Licensed Physical Therapists, we provide health and fitness services for clients with a range of wellness goals and varying levels of fitness, abilities and health challenges, and with often multiple and complex chronic medical conditions.