Studio hours Weekdays 6am to 1pm, park mornings Wednesday and Friday
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Certifications, clinic years and the courses I keep going back to.
Strength coach, Sellwood, Portland
Nine years coaching people back into training after a baby, an injury or twenty years away from it, five of them alongside physical therapists in a clinic. Fourteen clients at a time, twelve-week blocks, and a paper notebook for every one of them.
Talia Brennan Strength · Sellwood, Portland
A two-rack studio on SE 13th and two park mornings a week. Fourteen one-to-one clients at a time, a small group of four outdoors, and written blocks for a handful of people who train elsewhere.
2019 — Present
Riverside Physical Therapy · Portland, Oregon
Ran the loading side of return-to-activity plans for post-operative knees and shoulders, and wrote the bridge programs patients took away at discharge.
2017 — 2019
Riverside Physical Therapy · Portland, Oregon
Five years of watching people improve for six weeks and then stop, which is the reason everything above exists.
2014 — 2017
Sellwood Community Center · Portland, Oregon
A free Saturday barbell hour for people over sixty, run with two volunteers and a set of borrowed plates.
2018 — 2022
Portland State University · Portland, Oregon
Thesis on adherence to home exercise programs after discharge, which nobody has ever asked me about since.
2010 — 2014
Oregon Health Sciences (continuing education) · Portland, Oregon
2020 — 2020
National Strength and Conditioning Association
2016, renewed 2025
Girls Gone Strong
2020
StrongFirst
2018
American Red Cross
Renewed annually
Clinical Athlete
2021
Two-day clinical workshop, Seattle
The reason the Knees Again block runs twenty weeks instead of twelve.
2023
Six-week course, online
Changed how I write carries, step-ups and anything involving getting off the floor.
2022
Portland State University
Mostly about asking better questions in the first ten minutes and then being quiet.
2021
Clinical seminar
2024
Sellwood Library, evening talk
Given twice, once to eleven people and once to sixty.
2025
Riverside Physical Therapy, staff session
2024
Oregon Coaches Meetup
2023
