Rubio's Offseason Training Includes Mountain Biking, Kayaking

[RealGM Wiretap]

Ricky Rubio played in 57 games last season coming back from a torn ACL.

Rubio will participate in EuroBasket for Spain.

"Ricky has been training hard," said Flip Saunders. "He hasn’t been locked away, not answering phone calls and hiding from everyone like Pek (Nikola Pekovic). He’s doing more cross-training, going on 25-mile bike rides into the mountains around Barcelona and getting out kayaking on the ocean."

Via Jerry Zgoda/Star Tribune

[caronimo]

it's like in rocky IV when rocky trained in the outdoors

[burritoKURUMA]

He hasn’t been locked away, not answering phone calls and hiding from everyone like Pek

I chuckled. Where did this come from?

[cjliu49]

"Rubio's Offseason Training Includes Vacation"

nice....
kid is going to be a beast anyway though

[phailing101]

Cross-training is legit.........until you hurt yourself mountain biking!


He will be in beast mode when he's on the court though. Love watching him play!

[captlopez0012]

that mountain biking is no joke. i just started recently and it is so much harder than i imagined. its a different kind of being in shape.

[rockmanslim]

Is there anybody in the NBA more adorable than Ricky?

Who would win in a cute-off, Ricky Rubio or Hello Kitty?

[JV4MVP]

Kayaking, Mountain Biking?

Sounds like my VACATION in Maine this summer. Its a good life to be an athlete.

[psundeen]

Personally, I'd rather he be in the gym working on some kind of outside shot...

[koko88]

how about some 3point shoot, a mid range game or anything that will help you to put the ball in the basket ?

[Devilzsidewalk]

ie he's on vacation

[gold0259]

YO SOY NADAMOS Ricky Rubio! Hope that helps his J