Tami has been a fitness professional since 1987, and has extensive and diverse experience in corporate and commercial fitness venues.

I have a long and glorious career in health and fitness. I started teaching aerobics right out of high school, and graduated with a degree in Kinesiology and Health Promotion from the University of Texas at Austin. My career brought me to San Francisco, and eventually to Portland, Oregon, where I have lived since 2006. Although I have worked in management of fitness facilities both commercial and corporate, I love to work with clients directly, teaching classes and working with clients individually and in small groups. I am an ACE Fitness Master Trainer, and am also certified as a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness instructor through ACE. I am certified in TRX Suspension Training, group cycling, Pilates mat, yoga, Group Step and Group Centergy, and am a Certified Barefoot Training Specialist. I am also a Vivobarefoot certified running coach. As a trainer, I love to work with a variety of people. I love to help people learn to love exercise and love to push to the next level people who are already strong, but want the next level. I have worked with clients for weight loss, and have successfully helped clients improve their performance with sport-specific training. Athletes I have trained for sport include skiers, runners, tennis players, equestrians, surfers, motorcyclists, and more. I am also a competitive age-group runner. I love to run and race trails and roads, and I have run 8 marathons as of this posting, including the infamous 2013 Boston Marathon. Even though I've been in this business for over 25 years, I never assume I know enough. Ours is a constantly evolving field, and I like to stay at the front of what is happening in my industry. There is always something new and exciting. I wish like heck that I had coined the term "muscle confusion", but even though I didn't, I have been using exercise specificity and variety in exercise to help clients meet their goals for a long time. I believe in training smart and hard, but having fun. I think everyone can find something they love to do, and that's the key to lifelong fitness.