Vanessa Knights

After taking several group classes coached by Vanessa at my local gym in Leeds, I knew I wanted to work with her one on one. I have achieved amazing results with her as my personal trainer and have found her sessions to be challenging and fun. Vanessa is passionate about her job and takes great care when writing personalised programmes – I appreciate the way she tailors mine according to my needs, goals and enjoyment. She is fantastic at communicating effectively and has shared with me her wealth of knowledge on fat loss, muscle gain, nutrition and the importance of good technique during resistance training. Her charismatic nature put me immediately at ease and her support has been invaluable in improving my strength, my confidence and my relationship with food. I would highly recommend Vanessa's personal training sessions to anyone, particularly women looking to get stronger and change their bodies!

Training with Vanessa has been a breath of fresh air. She’s really helped me understand how to perform exercises properly. I’ve felt and seen real progress with every session and have discovered new ways of working out, I’d never considered before. She’s patient but knows how to push just the right amount. My confidence in the gym has grown with my strength and I’d thoroughly recommend.

Vanessa is professional, knowledgeable and commited to helping you achieve your goals without judgement. Her personal journey with an eating disorder makes her relatable to clients and she appreciates that there is not a 'one size fits all' approach to fitness.I sought out Vanessa looking for a personal trainer to help motivate me and teach me how to lift correctly, to avoid injury, having no prior experience and feeling intimidated to do this alone. I have enjoyed working with her, have seen my self confidence, strength and technique improve. I would highly recommend.

Vanessa truly helped me changed my life for the better. Coming from someone who suffered from eating disorders all her life I turned to Vanessa after reading about her struggles growing up too. I had a lot of fears and struggles but Vanessa provided all the support and encouragement I needed.I’d been to other PT’s in the past who didn’t have the knowledge and understandings of eating disorders and unfortunately didn’t help me at all.Vanessa explained the science behind weight lifting and hypertrophy, pushing me past my limits during the workouts and helping me build crazy amounts of muscle in a short time. I chose to do a 6 month 1 to 1 programme and have achieved results I never thought were possible.As cliche as it sounds but my life has truly changed as I don’t have a eating disorder anymore. I eat to fuel my body and enjoy and embrace every single meal. I had an eating disorder for over 10 years and only after turning to Vanessa has my life changed for the better.If you are someone who is struggling with building muscle, needs support with workouts/weight lifting or struggle with disordered eating and want to recover Vanessa is absolutely the right person to turn to. I’d still be living a life of misery around food and my weight if I didn’t.I cannot thank Vanessa enough for all she has done to support me, absolutely worth every penny and more.

Vanessa is a fantastic PT - I saw more progress in a couple of months of working with her than I had in years at the gym. She really takes the time to understand your goals and in really encouraging & supportive. The sessions with her are great - she takes the time to explain why you are doing things, helping you become much more self sufficient. I have learnt so much! She is super friendly and really puts you at ease.

Vanessa has a way of getting the absolute most out of me and getting me to try harder than I ever have before. She makes training fun to the point where my sessions with her fly by and I genuinely look forward to them. I've very quickly come to learn why my progress has been limited in the past and with Vanessa, I dont feel like there are any limits to what I can achieve. She explains things clearly, teaches me so much about form and quality in every personal training session and really cares about my results. I've seen massive changes in a short time I've been training with Vanessa in Leeds and would recommend her as a personal trainer to anyone and everyone looking to make some real progress whether in terms of their nutrition, fitness or strength.

Having never had a PT before I was naturally quite nervous going into this, but Vanessa was (and still is) extremely welcoming to the process and she helped me feel confident in my choice and so inspired to get in to the training. Vanessa is so knowledgeable and passionate about what she does and this really comes through in her sessions - I feel as though she really cares about me and my progression. Vanessa is a rare gem, I couldn't speak more highly of her!

Vanessa is an absolutely wonderful personal trainer. I came to her to get help recovering from a bad back injury and she has consistently listened to me, thought carefully about what can help me and changed by program based on my progress. She is friendly and knowledgeable and really cares about her clients. Training with her is worth every penny and I can’t thank her enough for everything she has done to help me get stronger and alleviate my pain.

Straight away Vanessa made me feel really comfortable and has been really supportive and encouraging with whatever strength& fitness goals I come to her with. It is so nice to work with her because of how well she deals with the relationship between food, the gym and body positivity. It’s rare to find a trainer that doesn’t just want to use you to get good results, Vanessa actually cares about her clients and it’s wonderful to see.