Hi, I’m Amy Snelling

Personal trainer. Founder of The Snack Pass. Professionally furious about the fitness industry.

I've been a personal trainer for 7 years, and before that I was a primary school teacher, which means I am extremely good at explaining things and extremely unbothered by chaos.

I started my PT career doing what most personal trainers do, working with people on their goals, programming workouts, getting people moving. And I was good at it. But I never offered weight loss after my own experience of disordered eating. I thought I could work alongside other coaches who did offer body transformations but that became increasingly difficult. The longer I spent in the fitness industry, the harder it became to ignore how much of it is built on making people feel bad about their bodies in order to sell them a solution.

The weight loss focus. The before and after photos. The earn your food messaging dressed up as motivation. The assumption that everyone who walks into a gym wants to be smaller.

I couldn't get on board with any of it. And I was increasingly aware that a huge number of people were being failed by a fitness industry that only knows how to speak one language: shrink yourself.

Why I created The Snack Pass

I started offering online coaching and went looking for an online fitness community that didn't centre weight loss so that my few clients could connect with others. A space where the goal wasn't transformation, where nobody was tracking calories in the group chat, where you could just... move your body without it being framed as punishment or penance.

It didn't exist. So I built it.

The Snack Pass is an online anti-diet fitness community built around short, evidence informed workouts - exercise snacks - and a genuinely weight inclusive, body friendly approach to movement. No diet talk. No before and afters. No mention of toning, fat burning, or earning anything. Just movement, community, and the radical idea that your body doesn't need fixing before you're allowed to enjoy exercise.

It's for people who have been let down by mainstream fitness. People who hated PE. People who've tried every gym and left feeling worse about themselves than when they walked in. People who want to move their bodies without the whole thing becoming a referendum on how they look.

We have sliding scale pricing because access to a non diet fitness community shouldn't depend on your income. And we have a self-led course to help members actually unpick their relationship with exercise, because sometimes the barrier isn't physical at all.

What I actually do as a trainer

I'm a qualified personal trainer with and I work with people online through The Snack Pass community and through 1:! virtual PT sessions.

I don't do 12 week transformation programmes. I don't do before and after photos. I don't give nutrition advice that nudges people towards restriction, and I'm not going to sit here and pretend that weight loss is a neutral or universally appropriate goal.

What I do is work with the body you have, at the pace that works for you, towards goals that actually belong to you and not goals the fitness industry decided you should have.

I'm evidence informed, which means I use peer reviewed research as a starting point and your lived experience as the thing that actually shapes your programme. There are no absolutes in fitness. Anyone telling you there are is either mistaken or selling something.

I work with people who are navigating injury and pain, who are pregnant or postpartum, who find fitness genuinely confusing, who've had bad experiences with movement going back to school, and who are tired of being treated like a before photo waiting to happen.