Marvic Debono
Certified Personal Trainer · Founder of MyPT Malta
Marvic is a Certified Personal Trainer, holds an MBA in Sports Management, and is currently reading for an MSc in Youth Athletic Development. He is also the founder of MyPT Malta — the personal training business and the app it sits inside.
At almost 145kg, he once faced daily struggles with basic movements. That experience — on the other side of the work, before any of this was his job — is what makes him uniquely qualified to coach the people who walk into Tal‑Qroqq feeling like they have left it too late. The patience, the absence of judgement, the assumption that you are capable: all of it traces back to a version of himself that needed exactly that.
Today he is one of Malta's leading personal trainers and specialises in adaptive personal training for people with intellectual disabilities — work that requires a kind of patience and clarity that quietly raises the bar for how he coaches everyone else.
Marvic wrote the MyPT app himself. Eighteen months of nights and weekends, originally just for his own client roster. The technology choices in MyPT — what is automated, what is left human, what is opt-in — all came out of running this with real clients before anyone outside the studio could touch it.
Miriam Saliba
State-registered Dietitian · Personal Trainer
Miriam is a state-registered dietitian and a Certified Personal Trainer. She studied dietetics at the University of Malta and completed her personal trainer certification afterwards. The combination is rare and important — it means the nutrition side of MyPT is built on the same clinical evidence base she would use in any other dietetic setting, and that she understands what training actually demands of the body she is feeding.
Reaching 100kg was Miriam's turning point — the moment that led her to become one of Malta's most dedicated personal trainers. The honesty of having been there changes how a diet conversation goes. There is no abstract preachiness. No assumption that you have always known what to do. There is just one qualified person and another, sitting at a table, working out what fits your life.
Inside MyPT, every meal plan was written by Miriam, by hand, after a real conversation. She also runs her own dietitian practice — you can find more at miriamsaliba.com.
How we work together
We coach our clients in person at the Tal‑Qroqq Sports Complex on Triq Maria Teresa Spinelli in Gżira — Malta's national sports facility, operated by SportMalta. The complex is home to the National Swimming Pool (50m Olympic + 25m), a public gym, squash courts, 5-a-side football pitches, and the Maltese Olympic Committee. We don't own it. We coach there because it's the best-equipped venue in Malta that's open to everyone.
Sessions happen mainly in small focused groups of 2–4 clients, matched on goal, level and schedule. Group training is the format that gives most people the attention they need at a per-session price that works on a real-life budget. 1-to-1 private sessions are available if that's a better fit. Either way, the programming and the diet are written for you specifically — the group format doesn't change that.
One important note on cost: Tal‑Qroqq has its own membership scheme run by SportMalta. Membership covers access to the facility — the gym floor, the changing rooms, the pool. Our personal-training fees pay for our coaching alongside you. The two are separate, and the SportMalta membership is paid directly to them, not through us. Most of our clients keep an annual membership; we'll point you to the right tier when you sign up with us.
The in-person personal training services we offer are described on our services site — packages, timing, what is included. What the app does is everything between sessions: the workout you do on a Saturday morning before we see you on Monday; the meals you log on Tuesday so Miriam can see whether the week is matching the plan she wrote; the walk you took on a lunch break that we didn't prescribe but counted toward the conditioning we did. All of it lives next to your data, where we can see it.
How MyPT got built
Marvic started writing MyPT in 2024, originally as a tool to manage his own client roster. He had run out of patience with the off-the-shelf options — templates instead of programming, AI coaches instead of coaches, tier walls hiding the basics, logging that took longer than the meal, communities that were dead or toxic. MyFitnessPal, Trainerize, TrueCoach, FitBod, Strong, MyPTHub, Caliber — each one solved one or two problems and created three or four new ones.
Eighteen months later, MyPT is a full-stack platform with a React Native client app, AI-generated walking routes across Malta, a 500-plus recipe library (every recipe vetted by Miriam), a quiet community layer, and a wearables integration that handles seven providers. None of it replaces the coaching. All of it makes our coaching better.
What we believe
- Behaviour change is the actual job. Programming is the easy part. Helping you show up every week for two years is the hard part. Most of the app exists to solve that, not the easy part.
- Honesty over hype. No miracle protocols. No "lose 10kg in 30 days" framing. The science behind training and nutrition is well-established and boring — we trust the boring stuff.
- Walking is undervalued. Most clients add a 45-minute daily walk and see more progress in three months than they did from any structured cardio plan.
- A real dietitian writes your diet. If the nutrition matters, the person writing it should be qualified to write it.
- The coach is what you are paying for. The app makes our work faster and more attentive. It does not replace it.
Train with us
If you want to train with us in person at Tal‑Qroqq, the conversation starts at our personal training services site. You can also call us on +356 7906 9474.
If you want the app on its own — because you do not live in Malta, your schedule does not work, or you simply prefer remote — the pricing page covers that path. You still get programming written by Marvic and nutrition written by Miriam, by hand. That part does not change.