Osmany Juantorena and the NOI.5 Fitness Club: from athletic training for volleyball to the new gym in Civitanova Marche

Spiker of the Lube and  Italian National, silver in the 2015 World Cup and at the Rio 2016 Olympics and an endless series of trophies and titles won at club level (including two consecutive Champions Leagues won with the Trento shirt): fromOsmany Juantorena volleyball player to speak are certainly the results, which consecrate him at 33 years old among the strongest and most successful in our country and beyond. On the other hand, his non-sporting activity is less known. Dabout a year ago, he started together with partner Sheila Calcina a gym on the seafront of “his” Civitanova Marche, where he has been playing for 3 years in Lube: “Il US.5 Fitness Club was born from the idea of ​​two friends who, albeit in different ways, have made sport their reason for living – Juantorena explained to us – We wanted to combine our skills and experiences to create an environment where you can take care of yourself and to make people aware of the importance of adopting proper nutrition and a healthy, movement-oriented lifestyle".

The 5, which has always accompanied him as a number on the shirt, is not however the only link between the gym and the career as a volleyball player of the Italian-Cuban spiker: “At NOI.5 Fitness Club we do athletic training for every type of sport, including volleyball. I think functional training is very important for volleyball, as well as for many other disciplines. In our case though it is essential especially in the preparation phase, given that once you start playing you have neither time nor way to load and then recover the physique. The benefits in this sense concern the overall performance improvement, therefore strength, power, speed and resistance, and at the end of the championship it helps to resist the stress of the many close matches”.

Juantorena's preparation for the Volleyball World Cup

Currently Juantorena is engaged in his athletic preparation in view of the imminent Volleyball World Cup, which will be played in Italy and Bulgaria starting from 10 September: “It is an extremely important event and we've already been working hard since early August to try to give our best and get as far as possible. I usually train about 5 hours a day, with my trainer who manages all the athletic part and the individual exercises. Specifically, we focus a lot on jump resistance, which is one of the aspects we focus on the most".

Inevitably, Juantorena's commitments to volleyball mean that his partner is almost entirely responsible for the day-to-day running of the gym. Sheila Calcina, who explained the offer that can be found at US.5 Fitness Club"Our approach is to provide our subscribers a program that allows you to train your body using all possible methods, from 'fat burning', and therefore aerobic, to functional or isotonic, organizing dynamic and fun courses such as those of functional training, of pilates, gentle exercise, pre and postpartum gymnastics e pre and post surgery or injury. All this both in groups and through individual lessons, always with the aim of improve both athletic performance and the quality of daily life".

Between training and nutritional path

However, there is not only training at the center of the offer of the club from the Marches, which also provides the possibility of complete your athletic journey with proper nutrition"Once you sign up – continues Sheila – each member undergoes a complete check-up visit, in order to create a personal file on the basis of which to elaborate a nutritional path associated with the training program, body composition and functional characteristics of the individual. All this is then constantly monitored and updated to adapt to the results obtained, in order to constantly transmit the right motivation".