Operation Panda article on SFGate
In case you missed it, here's an article from yesterday about Pablo's strength and conditioning camp feature on SF Gate.
Perseverance at Camp Panda by Henry Schulman, Chronicle Staff writer
Fan favorite Sandoval goes extra mile to shape up, slim down
"After 10 days of workouts that would make a Marine drill instructor weep with sadistic joy, the Giants' cuddly Kung Fu Panda finally bared his fangs.
With a host of others, including Giants head trainer Dave Groeschner and strength and conditioning coordinator Ben Potenziano, infielder Pablo Sandoval climbed Phoenix's Camelback Mountain on Thursday, 54 minutes up, 38 minutes down, and thought he was done for the day.
Then, Potenziano gave him the bad news: another weightlifting circuit and 30 more minutes of cardio.
'He was a little poopy-pants the rest of the afternoon,' Potenziano said. 'He wasn't his happy self.'
This is Camp Panda, an extraordinary, 3 1/2-week training and nutritional program devised by the Giants and conducted at a time when most players are home reacquainting themselves with their 6-irons. The object of Camp Panda is solving the biggest problem for the team's best and most exciting young player - his weight."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/16/MNPR1AK9ES.DTL
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