VIDEO. Serious sweating on the rollers, a surprise act with his sister-in-law and cooling off with the physiotherapist: a day in the rehabilitation process of Remco Evenepoel

After his heavy fall in the Tour of the Basque Country, Remco Evenepoel is busy recovering as quickly as possible. The Belgian champion shared a day in his rehabilitation process on YouTube, where he worked seriously physically, but also had time for friends and family.

The day in Evenepoel’s recovery process starts with training on the rollers. The Belgian champion had put on a lot of layers to “be uncomfortably warm”, which was part of his training in the run-up to his altitude training camp on the Sierra Nevada. We see the Belgian champion sweating seriously, but afterwards he received a well-deserved breakfast from girlfriend Oumi.

Evenepoel then surprised his sister-in-law Amira at a running race. “I have always won here in the past. That was always life or death here,” he looks back nostalgically. Evenepoel presented the medals to the podium laureates and also eagerly had his picture taken with his young fans.

In the afternoon it was again pure seriousness. Evenepoel went on a tough training ride of three hours, a “first test to take a step back or simply continue with the rehabilitation”, according to the Flemish Brabander. After the rigorous training, he looked back with mixed feelings. “The shoulder is still a bit stiff, so I didn’t feel 100 percent on the bike yet. The feeling in my legs was good, but I still have a lot of work to do. That’s all part of the rehabilitation.”

Finally, Evenepoel continued on his way to Antwerp, where he had an appointment with physiotherapist Thijs Hertsens, who worked on both Wout van Aert and Evenepoel. The physiotherapist from LAB Antwerp took R.EV seriously and used stability exercises to test, among other things, the mobility of Evenepoel’s shoulder blade, which he broke during the Tour of the Basque Country. To conclude, Evenepoel underwent “compression and ice therapy to cool the muscles of his right shoulder and Remco himself” and received a kind of ice pack on his shoulder.