Welcome to Fitness & Function

Exercise specialists for Mature-, Midlife-, Older Adults

and people with medical conditions and illness

In-Home and Virtual Personal Training,

Private Physical Therapy, and Health Coaching

Our mission is helping our clients restore, optimize and maintain functional fitness, balance, and mobility. We focus on falls prevention and intervention, and longterm functional independence, while also aiding in the prevention and better management of chronic medical conditions and illness through targeted exercise and coaching to adopt healthy lifestyle habits. Together, we’ll help our clients achieve their fitness and wellness goals and embrace a vibrant lifestyle.

Our evidence-based personal training and therapeutic exercise programs are tailored specifically to benefit older adults, active agers, and others with various health conditions. Aging is unpredictable, we all age at different speeds and our various body systems change at different speeds. When you're looking for wellness and fitness services customized to your unique needs, you've found the right place.

Our decades of experience working with older adults and people with often complex medical conditions and illness has taught us that even at advanced age of 90+ years you can still begin an exercise program and be successful in improving strength, balance, and mobility.

In 2003 we created the business model that is based on

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

Since then we added Virtual Personal Training, Private Physical Therapy and Health Coaching to our services to better meet the needs of our clients.

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.

Extending Your Independent Living Skills

The need for staying and extending independence is now more important than ever, there is already a shortage of care givers. Older adults are projected to outnumber children under 18 for the first time in U.S. history by the year 2034. Staying functionally and mentally independent for as long as possible will be necessary because there will not be many people to go around that can care for those needing assisted living care especially when currently 1 out of every 5 children and teenagers and 40.3% of adults aged 20 and older are overweight and obese and will have their own set of medical conditions to deal with and physically will not be able to provide care or hold a physically demanding job.

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.