{"id":446982,"date":"2011-06-24T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/24\/liverpool-defender-martin-skrtel-keeping-up-his-fitness-during-season-break\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T10:44:00","slug":"liverpool-defender-martin-skrtel-keeping-up-his-fitness-during-season-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/liverpool-defender-martin-skrtel-keeping-up-his-fitness-during-season-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel keeping up his fitness during season break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>24 Jun 2011 11:44:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"61.6118881119\">\n<div readability=\"16.8473684211\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EPL: Martin Skrtel , Tottenham vs Liverpool(Getty Images) \" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/117700\/117790_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>EPL: Martin Skrtel , Tottenham vs Liverpool(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"20.5834084761\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/98\/liverpool\">Liverpool<\/a> defender <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/slovakia\/5471\/martin-skrtel\">Martin Skrtel<\/a> insists that he is maintaining his fitness during the season break so that he can return to the club and put in performances reminiscent of last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Slovakia international managed to play every single minute of the club&#8217;s Premier League campaign and put in strong showings during the course of a rollercoaster campaign which saw the Reds occupy the relegation zone at one stage before eventually finishing seventh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am still relaxing but it is not just sitting next to the pool,&#8221; Skrtel said on his official website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I need to be fit for the upcoming season so I do train every day. I am with my girlfriend every day but I also go to the gym daily.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also use my bike a lot because I need to stay in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My holidays are nearly over and it was great to be with my family again. I stayed out of football for a while but now I am in the middle of a strict regime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also played with my friends from the national team in a charity match and it was great fun to be with them again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be heading to Liverpool soon and I hope this season will be a huge success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/06\/24\/2545771\/liverpool-defender-martin-skrtel-keeping-up-his-fitness\" title=\"Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel keeping up his fitness during season break\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel keeping up his fitness during season break<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 24 Jun 2011 11:44:00 EPL: Martin Skrtel , Tottenham vs Liverpool(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel insists that he is maintaining his fitness during the season break so that he can return to the club and put in performances reminiscent of last season. The Slovakia international managed to play every single minute of the club&#8217;s Premier League campaign and put in strong showings during the course of a rollercoaster campaign which saw the Reds occupy the relegation zone at one stage before eventually finishing seventh. &#8220;I am still relaxing but it is not just sitting next to the pool,&#8221; Skrtel said on his official website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel keeping up his fitness during season break - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/24\/liverpool-defender-martin-skrtel-keeping-up-his-fitness-during-season-break\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel keeping up his fitness during season break - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 24 Jun 2011 11:44:00 EPL: Martin Skrtel , Tottenham vs Liverpool(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Liverpool defender Martin Skrtel insists that he is maintaining his fitness during the season break so that he can return to the club and put in performances reminiscent of last season. 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