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Form + Function LLC, 4943 NE Mlk Jr. Boulevard, Portland, OR (2025)

Jennifer Darling is a strength, nutrition & wellness coach in Portland, OR

11/17/2025

✨ You’re too small
✨ You’re too big
✨ You’re too loud
✨ You’re too much
✨ You’re too aggressive

✨ You’re right where you need to be baby.

11/10/2025

👉🏼 Are you ready for coaching that allows for flexibility in your training, while meeting your strength goals? If yes, hybrid coaching may be for you.

👉🏼 Consistency through accountability & custom programming. Learn to manage your fatigue & move better in your body.

👉🏼 Reach out today to schedule your free consultation.

11/04/2025

✨I want to give my squat the love it deserves for the growth it has been given in the hands of

✨ I walked onto the platform for my first squat with a clear vision to execute the plan. I stepped under the bar & immediately felt the grip & spikes of fresh knurling digging into my skin. I immediately said to myself, “Oh, that feels good.” And felt 100% locked in.

✨My last squat PR on as platform was Nationals 2023 (115kg/253lb)

✨ 2024 turned out to be an absolute mental & emotional nightmare, which greatly impacted my training. It left me questioning my self-worth & sense of belonging in this sport.

✨ At my Dec 2024 meet, I was only able to squat 107.5kg/237lb I was dealing with a lot of internal pain & massive loss of strength due to weight loss.

✨ I hired in the summer of 2024 to be my nutrition coach & by November, I knew I was going to hire her to be my powerlifting coach. To work on the internal training she encouraged me to hire This was the best decision I could have made for my next chapter in this sport.

✨ In 11 months, my body is moving the best it ever has. The work we have done on my technique & ex*****on combined with creating better mobility within my joints & training my soft tissue has me on the path to a 300lb squat with confidence.

✨We added 28lb to my squat since last December’s meet & I finally hit a new platform PR by 11lb (120kg/265lb)

✨ I failed that 120kg 3 weeks out. We made a choice not to go for it again. Instead, focused on managing my fatigue & we tapered squats early to save it for the platform. It worked. It’s safe to say Liz is kinda of brilliant when it comes to this sport. She goes above & beyond for her athletes & manages us as individuals with individual needs. She attacks our deficiencies to make us better technical lifter with a greater understanding of how your body works & what it needs. She’s strategic, smart and it’s a gift to be coached by her. I trust her & she has made me see myself as an athlete again. The party is just getting started.

✨opener 105kg/231.49lb
✨second 115kg/253.53lb
✨third 120kg/264.55lb

09/25/2025

👉🏼 Currently in my 8th meet prep & every prep brings the opportunity to learn more & grow as a lifter. For me, it also means growth as a coach.

👉🏼 I believe many powerlifters ignore the work they actually need to be doing verses the work they think they need to be doing. And I speak from experience.

👉🏼 You can keep loading the bar all you want, but at some point the external factors outside of the load choices & where you can grow, will catch up with you.

👉🏼 If you’re struggling with any of this & are not sure where to start, reach out to your coach & get them on the same page as you. As coaches we should have the resources to support you or refer you to someone who can help. A coach should be more than a programmer.

👉🏼 If you’re ready to elevate your lifting & become a more well rounded athlete in the gym & outside of the gym, hit me up. I’d love to hear from you. I am currently accepting remote strength athletes & have a couple openings on my in person books.

08/30/2025

👉🏼 Since February I’ve been working with on improving my mobility & learning to mitigate on going pain & stiffness within my joints & other areas of my body.

👉🏼 I wholeheartedly committed to the bit and we have been working our way through areas that have been causing weaknesses within my lifting and my daily movement patterns. Quite frankly, I’m completely blown away by the progress we’ve made and how incredibly different my entire body feels internally. Not to mention the trauma that’s been released while doing this work.

👉🏼One of the areas we are focusing on is my spinal mobility. From my cervical spine all the way to my low lumbar, I have seen extensive improvements & unrecognizable mobility within my movement patterns. My joints are very happy.

👉🏼 My lifts are moving the best they ever have, my recovery time from a heavy lifting sessions has been extremely shorten (rarely am I sore to the point of complaining about it), I’m making gains on my lifts that feel like I just started this sport & I am creating a tool box of drills & exercises to help others improve their mobility & movements patterns as well.

👉🏼 If you’re frustrated & keep trying to strength train your way out of pain or discrepancies in your lifting or hope taking a few days off “fixes” things, these things won’t work long term. These are Band-Aids.

👉🏼 I can’t say enough about working with & commitment to making sure her athletes are getting what they need to move the best they can.

👉🏼 This has been the missing link to improving my lifts technically & making them move with more efficiency. Not to mention how much better I feel in my daily life in this middle aged body.

👉🏼 This work is just now part of my routine now & will continue to be, as it’s pretty damn amazing to feel good moving in your body on a daily basis.

Address

4943 NE Mlk Jr. Boulevard
Portland, OR
97211

Opening Hours

Monday	6am - 7pm
Tuesday	6am - 7pm
Wednesday	6am - 7pm
Thursday	6am - 7pm
Friday	6am - 6pm
Saturday	8am - 3pm
Sunday	8am - 3pm

Telephone

+15035936056

Website

https://www.formnfunctionpdx.com/

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