MOVE BETTER. LOOK BETTER. PERFORM BETTER.

Vanessa is the owner and creator of M.A.S.K. Personal Training and has worked in fitness since 1998, though her interests in health, fitness and exercise go back much further.  A keen ballet and tap dancer when very young paved the way for later pursuits which included acrobatics, track and field athletics, martial arts, body building and fitness modelling.

With Vanessa, it’s all about you “The Client” and about your very unique and individual journey towards optimal health, fitness and wellness. At M.A.S.K. we have created our mission statement as “helping people become the very best version of themselves”. In a nutshell, that’s what training with Vanessa is all about. Conquering mindset issues which may be holding you back from exploring your true potential, creating exciting and better serving new habits, and creating and implementing nutritional plans which genuinely work are just some of the areas that you will explore with Vanessa as your coach.

Vanessa’s tireless dedication towards helping people make her quite a unique talent within the industry as well as a highly sought-after coach. After more than 20 years within the industry Vanessa is now adding to her already impressive list of qualifications by studying a diploma in nutritional therapy in her quest to gain further skills which in her own words “will help me to help even more people”.

Qualifications:

- CHEK Practitioner Level 2
- CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 3
- Level 5 Advanced Diploma Nutritional Studies
- Precision Nutrition Level 2
- BA (Hons) Sports and Fitness Studies
- PGCE Post Compulsory Education
- Level 3 Diploma in Sports Massage

Marc first qualified in the industry in 1992. Since then Marc has completed over 15,000 client hours in the industry and has an impressive array of qualifications as testimony to his hard work and dedication to ongoing learning. Marc has more recently enrolled upon an MSc Strength and Conditioning degree with St Mary’s University in Twickenham.

Marc also has an impressive sporting background, beginning Martial Arts in 1983. Along his journey as a Martial Arts competitor, Marc has collected 3 Black Belts as well as several British and UK titles in various styles, a European kickboxing title and in 2018 after 35 years of training Marc finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming World Kickboxing Champion at the not so tender age of 45 at the WKU World Championships in Athens, Greece.

More recently, Marc has taken a step backwards and now works mainly behind the scenes with M.A.S.K. and is heavily involved in the creation of the online classes and fitness programs. Marc is also responsible for the development and training of the M.A.S.K. senior and junior trainers who work with a great number of our clients.

Marc has Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as well as ADHD. Working with special needs populations is a speciality, as is working with high-performance athletes, and anyone in between.

Whilst still adopting an holistic approach to health, fitness and wellness, Marc has still built a reputation of being quite a task master!

Qualifications:

- CHEK Practitioner Level 2
- CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 3

- Level 4 Strength & Conditioning Coach                                                                                                         

- Youth Strength and Conditioning Coach

Certified Posture Professional (American Posture Institute)

Certificate in Applied Functional Sciences (Gray Institute)

Dan came to M.A.S.K. having been a Kickboxing student of Marc’s for many years.

Dan’s naturally inquisitive nature and thirst for learning led him to complete his level 3 advanced personal training diploma with Premier Global and he has not looked back ever since. Dan has a natural ability to make clients feel at ease and confident from their very first meeting, a skill so genuine that it simply can’t be taught. This means that Dan is a natural when coaching clients from all backgrounds and ages, covering Martial Arts for 5 year-olds all the way through to coaching flexibility and mobility to clients in their 70s and beyond!

Dan has also enjoyed great success as a Martial Arts competitor. As a 2^nd Dan black belt, Dan has achieved a silver medal at the WAKO British Kickboxing Championships and is currently unbeaten in both K1 and MMA semi professional competitions.

Dan has completed his level 4 in Strength & Conditioning in order to be able to coach clients to the next level and is currently working towards his Youth Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification

Jamahl is something of a ‘Phenom’ in the realms of sports, health & fitness.

As an Autistic/ADHD toddler, a severe reaction to a vaccine left Jamahl so cognitively impaired that he had to attend special needs education. It was around this time that Dr’s informed us that Jamahl ‘would never be an athlete, nor be academic’

Fast forward many years and Jamahl became a 2 x World Junior Kickboxing Champion in Killarney, Ireland. Jamahl’s impressive array of titles also include 5 x British Champion, 1 x English Champion & 1 x German open champion. Jamahl also received the 2017 Warriors assemble award for overcoming adversity in Martial Arts.

Since then, Jamahl has continued his impressive sporting endeavours and added a further 3 World Junior Kickboxing titles to his collection and many more national titles. Jamahl is now a 5 x World Champion, a 1 x European Champion and a 30 times National Champion across different combative disciplines. Jamahl is also a Senior Elite level ABA Boxer with the awesome Guildford City Boxing Club.

Jamahl’s academic endeavours also created quite a stir, achieving 100% on his GCSE sports studies course work which enabled him to attend college to study Sports & Exercise Science at Level 3. At college he acheived his Level 3 with triple distinction star grades, equivalent to 3 A* grades at A-level, earning him a place at UCL to study BSc (Hons) Exercise and Medical Sciences.

Previously in December 2020, Jamahl also became the UK’s youngest ever fully qualified level 3 Personal Trainer at age 15yrs and 9 months. An incredible achievement.

Jamahl's desire to learn is matched by his huge enthusiasm to help each and every client achieve their very best.

Jamahl's current list of qualifications are:

Level 3 Personal Training

Level 3 BTEC Sports and Exercise Science

Level 4 Strength and Conditioning

Youth Strength and Conditioning Specialist

DNA Life Certified DNA Practitioner