Euroleague stars featured in Men's Health magazine
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International magazine Men's Health features Euroleague stars
The current issue of one of the biggest international fitness magazines is on the stands in Europe and Asia this month featuring a quartet of superstars from the Euroleague. Men's Health magazine came to the the Final Four in Madrid in early May to find and publish the fitness secrets of CSKA Moscow's Theodoros Papaloukas, Tau Ceramica's Tiago Splitter, Maccabi's Will Bynum and Montepaschi Siena's Terrell McIntyre. Those four players and their club physical trainers were followed to the gym in Madrid to see what exercises help make them so successful. It is no accident of conditioning, either, that three of those players were named later that weekend to the All-Euroleague first and second teams for the 2007-08 season.
Men's Health Spain:
Tiago Splitter, Tau Ceramica
"Work, perseverance and good nutrition: if you are missing one of those three pilars, your training will go down the tubes."
Tau Ceramica trainer Oskar Bilbao
"To hold position under the rim, open up spaces, get your body in the air in the battle for rebounds: A center would be nothing without working well on strength. Balance is the key. Strength must be spread equally to all the muscle groups in the body, from the legs to the arms, because each muscle is part of the fight."
Theo Papaloukas, CSKA Moscow
"Working on resistence is fundamental in order to learn how to spend your energy in doses and to be able to have what you need to play your best in the decisive moments when games are won."
CSKA Moscow trainer Georgy Artemiev
"During a game, players tend to run moderately fast in transition, while truly explosive sprints are limited to four or five meters on fastbreaks or takeoffs. Good resistence training should take that into account. That's why we work a lot on coordination and stability while running."
 Will Bynum, Maccabi Tel Aviv
"Work on different jumping angles - frontal, lateral, diagonal - both with feet together or on one leg, going forwards and backwards or not, and lending special attention to landings. Do it all with the same intensity and technique."
Maccabi Tel Aviv trainer Or Schwartz
"The biggest error that people tend to commit when working on jumps is to concentrate on take-offs while forgetting about landings. You need the same leg force to jump as you do to land, but the landings tend not to get worked on, and for that reason run a bigger injury risks in both the joints and muscles."
 Terrell McIntyre, Montepaschi Siena
"I always make sure to stretch well at the end of specific sessions, but never before weightlifting, because it can take away some of your force."
Montepaschi Siena trainer Sandro Bencardino
"It's important to lengthen the movements, not the muscles. What's more, dynamic stretching helps you to know sensations in each muscle and posture. Stretching is recomendable after making a great effort, in order to loosen the muscles, but always with smooth motions, and giving more importance to lower muscle groups than higher ones."
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