Jason Weigandt had a great interview with the reigning MXGP world champ, Jorge Prado on what it has been like rehabbing his shoulder injury and having only a month to get ready for outdoors and on a new bike!
Prado said of his race against time getting the shoulder ready for Pro Motocross: “It’s not a lot of time. Anyway, I’ve been training a lot my physical side of the body like cycling, gym sessions, trying to get my rehab of the shoulder as good as I can. It’s not easy. It was a big shoulder injury. So it takes time to recover us, to get the mobility, to get the strength and the comfort. So you’ve got to work every single day. I’ve been going to the physio every single day just to. Yeah, just to feel better with my shoulder, plus all the training. So it’s been it’s been a couple of intense months of of training.
“It’s a new team, it’s a new bike and we need to build a base, right? And yeah, definitely four weeks. It’s not a lot, but they’ve been working super hard. And I think in the little time we had, it’s pretty impressive all the changes we were able to make and make the bike feel very good.
On how he feels on the bike, and his expectations of a new series coming off an injury, Jorge said: “I think I’m riding pretty decent. So there’s always a lot of room for improvement in the speed, rhythm and everything. But it just takes time and I don’t want to overdo it. We just, you know, take it step by step. And the season, you know, we still have some time. So I will not stress, I think also once the races start, yeah, you will get more into racing and the speed will come. So I’m not really stressed, you know.