The beginning
Richard Geres Personal Training is founded, with individual coaching and measurable results at the centre of the service.
Serving Malta since 2005
Experience.
Understanding.
Example.
More than a personal training club. A professional coaching environment built around the individual—and led by a founder who practises what he teaches.
Our club
Personal training, made genuinely personal.
Richard Geres Personal Training was founded in 2005 to provide something very different from the conventional gym experience.
The idea was simple: clients should receive professional guidance, individual attention and a programme designed around their own body, health, goals and life—not be left to navigate a crowded gym alone.
Since then, our team has coached thousands of clients. Every year of experience has helped us refine a consistent system for assessment, programme design, one-to-one coaching and progress review. The setting is private, the service is personal and the work is always purposeful.
Professional coaching, delivered personally.
Our story
Two decades of helping people change.
From founder to team
As demand grows, Richard builds a team and develops a shared methodology so every client receives the same professional standard of care.
Progress, documented
A custom-developed system gives coaches and clients direct access to workout and assessment data, making progress visible and programming more responsive.
A private club in St Julian’s
Our dedicated facility at Corinthia Hotel St George’s Bay remains reserved for personal training clients—away from crowds, waiting and guesswork.
Our team
One team. One coaching philosophy.
Richard’s priority in building the team was not simply to recruit individual trainers. It was to create a shared professional culture—with a coherent training philosophy and methodology followed by every coach.
Trained in-house
Every staff member learns and implements the club’s in-house training programme and staff manual. This gives the team a common framework for assessment, programme design, exercise selection, coaching and progress review.
Connected by better records
Richard developed a dedicated software application that allows coaches to record each client’s assessments, health considerations, goals and workouts in one consistent system.
Continuity when it matters
If a client’s usual coach is away or unwell, a substitute trainer can understand the client’s programme and relevant health information before stepping in. The client receives informed, consistent coaching without having to start again.
Private Training Studio
Your space. Your trainer. No crowds.
Located at the Corinthia Hotel St George’s Bay, our studio provides a private, quiet setting dedicated exclusively to one-to-one coaching and personal assessment away from crowded gym floors.
Photographed at 60 · July 2025
Richard Geres · Founder
He doesn’t simply teach the philosophy. He lives it.
Now in his 60s, Richard remains in exceptional physical condition after a lifetime of natural strength training. His example gives the club’s healthy-ageing message unusual authenticity.
It also gives him a deeper appreciation of what changes with age. Starting—or restarting—exercise later in life can involve reduced mobility, lower cardiovascular fitness, postural limitations, old injuries, joint discomfort and uncertainty about what the body can safely do.
Richard understands that the answer is not to train every older client like a younger athlete. It is to respect the starting point, select the right exercises, progress intelligently and build the strength, fitness and confidence that make life easier.
“Our job isn’t just to get you fit. It’s to help you remain capable.”
The 60th-birthday project
Getting into peak shape at 60.
Ahead of his 60th birthday, Richard set himself a demanding 14-week goal: become exceptionally lean while preserving the muscle built over decades of consistent, drug-free training.
His programme combined five to six weekly strength sessions with additional cardiovascular work during the final seven weeks. Nutrition was tightly controlled, with high protein intake and careful management of carbohydrates, alcohol and sweet foods. The scale changed by only 2.5kg; the more meaningful result was the quality of the change—maximising fat loss while protecting muscle.
This was an advanced personal challenge, not a standard prescription or a typical promise. Its value is the principle behind it: clear goals, appropriate training, consistent nutrition and patient execution can still produce remarkable change later in life.
How we work
A coaching system built to evolve with you.
Experience matters most when it becomes a reliable process. We apply the same clear framework to every programme, while keeping the programme itself completely individual.
Understand the underlying issue
Assess your current condition
Set realistic, meaningful goals
Create and coach your programme
Measure progress regularly
Adapt the plan as you develop
Knowledge behind the coaching
Fitness, nutrition and more than 25 years of industry experience.
Richard’s background combines practical coaching experience with extensive education in fitness and nutrition, including a Master’s degree in Nutritional Medicine.
He is a registered nutritionist in Malta and has particular experience in fat loss, body composition and exercise and nutrition programming for people with metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors.
That breadth of knowledge informs the club’s integrated approach: strength, cardiovascular fitness, mobility, nutrition and sustainable behaviour change are treated as connected parts of long-term health.
He is a registered nutritionist in Malta and has particular experience in fat loss, body composition and exercise and nutrition programming for people with metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors.
That breadth of knowledge informs the club’s integrated approach: strength, cardiovascular fitness, mobility, nutrition and sustainable behaviour change are treated as connected parts of long-term health.
What you can expect
A premium service without intimidation.
Private
A dedicated personal training environment where the attention stays on you.
Individual
Your goals, history, preferences and physical capabilities shape the plan.
Measured
Assessments and training records help us see what is working and what needs to change.
Human
Professional standards, delivered with patience, encouragement and respect for your starting point.
Your next chapter
You do not need to be fit before you begin.
Come as you are. We will listen, assess where you are now and explain how we can help you move forward.