This is going to be a holiday only for their wives, he said.
With a goalkeeping crisis that has forced Blokhin to call up two uncapped keepers and a creaking defence, Ukraine's national team is seen as having only a slim chance of getting through tough Group D matches against Sweden, England and France.
"Euro 2012 can turn out in different ways. However you look at it, Ukraine's team has got younger and we have now essentially a new team," he said.
"Our task is to qualify from the group. In 2006 nobody believed we would qualify for the finals of the World Cup. Appetite comes with eating," he told reporters.
"But if the lads think that this [training in Turkey] will be a stroll, they are mistaken. For their wives maybe. But for the lads it will be twice-daily training, morning and evenings," he was quoted as saying by Segodnya newspaper.
Blokhin has brought in young attackers like Andriy Yarmolenko of Dynamo Kiev and Yevhen Konoplyanka of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk to boost Ukraine's striking power.
"I can say one thing: some footballers have come along who are forcing us trainers to consider more attacking play," Blokhin told reporters.
But he said that, apart from his goalkeeping nightmare, the defence generally was a major preoccupation. "The situation in defence has not got any better. It's good that [Yaroslav] Rakitsky and [Oleksandr] Kucher are scoring goals," he said referring to their club form.
"But matches against the leading teams of Europe will not allow two flank defenders to play in the other half of the pitch. They are going to have to look after the defence," Blokhin said.
"How the midfield plays is how the whole team plays. And things are not so smooth here either. I have concerns. Touch wood that injuries do not make the situation worse," he said.
