Remco Evenepoel provides a video insight into the recovery process: “Still a lot of work ahead”

Remco Evenepoel is currently working hard on his recovery after his fall in the Tour of the Basque Country. Things are going in the right direction for the Belgian champion, but he still has a long way to go, he says in a video on his own Youtube-channel. In the video, Evenepoel is followed for a day during his rehabilitation process.

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Evenepoel starts the day on the smart trainer. Before he has breakfast, he completes a workout on an empty stomach. There is a lot of sweating, because Evenepoel has put on several layers to be ‘uncomfortably warm’. The goal: heat acclimatization. The leader of Soudal Quick-Step will soon leave for an altitude training camp to Sierra Nevada, where it will be a lot warmer than in Belgium.

A second training session is scheduled for later in the afternoon, but in between Evenepoel will watch a running race of his sister-in-law Amira. “I have always won here in the past, every year. That was always life or death here,” Evenepoel remembers with a laugh. In the meantime, he makes time to take pictures with young fans and presents medals to the podium laureates.

Evenepoel: “Still a lot of work ahead”
Evenepoel then has to get back to work. He has a three-hour training scheduled, which he sees as a ‘first test’. The question is whether he should take a step back or continue his rehabilitation in the same way. “The shoulder is still a bit stiff, so I didn’t feel 100 percent on the bike yet,” he concludes afterwards. “The feeling in my legs was good, but I still have a lot of work to do. That’s all part of the rehabilitation.”

Part of this rehabilitation also includes a visit to physiotherapist Thijs Hertsens in Antwerp. Hertsens, who also counts Wout van Aert among his clients, treats Evenepoel and does some stability exercises with him. He wants to test, among other things, the mobility of Evenepoel’s broken shoulder blade in the Tour of the Basque Country. Finally, the Aeroball from Schepdaal another compression and ice therapy.