Welcome to Fitness & Function

Exercise specialists for Mature-, Midlife-, Older Adults

and people with medical conditions and illness

Personal Training, Private Physical Therapy, Health Coaching

In-Home and Virtually

Most functional declines are not due to the aging process but rather to physical inactivity or insufficient physical activity. Don't despair, even at advanced age (90+years) you can still begin an exercise program, and especially beneficial is strength training or resistance training. Aging is unpredictable, we all age at different speeds and our various body systems age at different speeds.

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 specialize is exercise to help optimize, rebuild, restore and maintain functional fitness, balance and mobility, stability and health by delivering well-designed, evidence-based personal training and therapeutic exercise programs for mature, midlife, older adults, active agers and youth often with a wide range of health and medical conditions.

Our client's desire is to enhance their quality of life, feel strong, be balanced, have confidence, live successfully and vibrantly. We provide in-person at home personal training, virtual training, health coaching and private physical therapy to help our clients reach those goals.

We created the business model that is based on

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

Senior couple exercise stretching yoga using laptop online instructions at home health car

What we do

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

Active and Vibrant Aging

Most older adults want to remain independent in their own home and live an active and vibrant lifestyle for as long as possible. For the ability to age successful you need the ability to perform daily living tasks and be cognitively capable. For active aging you will need a higher level of fitness and functional fitness and the ability to withstand unexpected illness or injuries.

Whether your goal is optimizing and maintaining a high level of fitness and health, active and vibrant aging, reducing your risk for developing chronic medical conditions and illness, better managing and treating existing medical conditions, restoring physical function, delaying and slowing down the aging process, preserving brain health and the physical ability to function well in older years with necessary balance and mobility, falls prevention, preventing frailty then there is no need to look further ?
We have helped many clients achieve and maintain their wellness goal.

Adaptive Exercise Training

Fitness & Function provides exercise solutions for youth with medical conditions such as autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, and stroke. 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, and wellness goal. Start your journey with us and give yourself the best chance for living a long, active and healthy life.

Our health and fitness professionals often 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 your wellness goals and long-term independence.

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.