Personal Training · Inner Southeast Portland

Get stronger. Stay out of pain. Keep training for life.

Personal training in Southeast Portland for adults serious about staying strong. Your own program, built around how you move and what you've been through, and a coach right there with you.

The training floor at Peak Condition: a coach alongside an athlete mid-set, with others training around them

Every program you’ve tried was built for someone else’s body.

You start one. A few weeks in, the shoulder flares or life gets busy, and you’re back to zero. So we start with where yours breaks down. A new program every month, built on the last.

Paul Collins coaching an athlete through a position at Peak Condition

Twenty years of coaching.

Paul Collins opened Peak Condition in 2011 and has coached since 2006. Degree in Exercise Science, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), and certified in the Internal Strength Model, the method behind every program here.

Small on purpose. You are never anonymous.

A small group, everyone on their own program. The same coach every session, who knows exactly where you are. No crowds. No drop-ins.

Whether you’ve never stopped or you’re starting again.

Walk in and it’s focused. Nobody’s performing. Some have trained their whole lives, some are working around an old injury. One is training for a hundred-mile trek in the Alps. Another was barely walking before sixty and is back to skipping rope.

It isn’t for chasing a quick number or grinding through a bootcamp. It’s for strength that holds up for years.

A coach kneeling alongside an athlete working with a resistance band

How we build your program.

Step 1

Assess

We start by watching how you move. No exercise gets written until we’ve seen it.

Step 2

Address

Then we build the program around what we saw and where you want to go.

Step 3

Train

You train, we coach, and the plan keeps changing as you do.

They came back. Here’s why.

Google reviews · 5.0 ★★★★★
★★★★★

I can’t say enough wonderful things about Paul and everyone at Peak Condition. I’ve been training there for over 8 years now and I continually see progress. This is not your typical injury-prone, bro gym where you feel like you’re being pushed past your limits. This is a gym full of many different ages and abilities, with an emphasis on functional training for athletes. Paul creates a personalized monthly routine for you, walks through each exercise, then gives you the space to try it out on your own.

Katie Hill
★★★★★

The personal training at Peak is exactly what I needed! I’ve been working with Paul for nearly a decade. He is an outstanding trainer and coach, knowledgeable, motivating, and genuinely invested in helping me reach my goals. Every session is tailored to my needs, and I’m seeing real results. Highly recommend!

JD Hooge
★★★★★

Paul and the training programs he creates for me have greatly assisted me in building the stability in my body I need to return to activities I have been guarding against for fear of injury. This is not the place to go if you just want to power over and through to get to your goals. This is a finely tuned approach that is helping me to build exquisite knowledge of just what my body needs to build and maintain truly functional strength. Worth every penny.

Ava Frank

What it costs.

Monthly. No long contracts. Most train two or three times a week, starting at $392 a month.

Common questions.

Who is Peak Condition for?

Adults who are serious about staying strong and healthy, and plan to keep at it for the long run. Some have trained their whole lives, some are getting back into it after time away, and many are working around an old injury. It isn't built for quick fixes or group bootcamps.

Where is Peak Condition?

Inner Southeast Portland, at 615 SE Clay Street, near Hawthorne and Ladd's Addition. It's a private studio, by appointment.

What kind of training do you do?

Personal training in a small group. Everyone follows their own strength program, written for their body and rebuilt every month.

Do you work with people coming back from an injury?

Yes. A lot of our members carry an old injury and want to train around it and get strong again. We build your program around what your body can do. We're a training studio, not a physical therapy or rehab clinic, so if you need clinical rehab first, we'll tell you.

How much does personal training cost?

Training is monthly, with no long contracts. Most members train two or three times a week, starting at $392 a month.

Thirty days. One program. See if it fits.

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