Physical fitness for a Grand Prix driver is absolutely essential, as the demands placed on the body both from a riding point of view and following crashes are fierce. But this is not only limited to outdoor exercises, motocross and sessions in the gym. The organisms are challenged to their core with a diet that could not be stricter. We can even say that after these revelations from Aron Canet about his period as a Moto3 grid driver, we are dangerously exceeding certain limits...
This holiday season, we feast and indulge in gargantuan menus. Read at this Rabelaisian moment the confidences ofAron canet on the dietary discipline imposed on him as a driver in the category Moto3 all the more chilling down the spine. An aspect of the profession rarely exposed to broad daylight and which shows to what extent these champions are beings apart, sacrificing absolutely everything for their success in what has gone beyond the stage of simple passion...
Public chat Todocircuito we thus discover a Aron canet living under torture on a daily basis: “ during my last year in Moto3, I remember starting the year weighing 64 or 65 kilos and I said “Oh my God, Dalla Porta, Masià or Toba weigh 58 kg!” » I remember a conversation with my nutritionist Abel Pérez who brought me back to 63 kilos and told me: “ Arón, I can't put you down anymore and what you're going to do from now on is going to be unhealthy ».
And indeed… “ At the Sachsenring I had already fainted for the first time. I have done so many atrocities... » he said. Because driven by hunger, he suffered from occasional bulimia: “ it was bulimia, from 4 a.m. I couldn't take it anymore and I wanted to eat sweets, and have a big bar of Milka chocolate, and what I did was chew, spit and weigh what you spat into the bag to see how much it weighed. It was very hard ».
Aron Canet fainted and lost his hair
Fainting, binge eating… But there was also this: “ At the end of the season when I was talking with my nutritionist and told what was going on, he said, " your hair fell out, you fainted, didn't you? It's normal'. If I wanted to lose this weight, it had to be unhealthy ».
Since then, the Spaniard has moved to Moto2, a discipline which has other requirements: “ from Moto3 to Moto2, I changed a lot of things ", said Canet, which began to change its working method in 2020: “ in Moto2, I met Miguel Maeso and he told me 'this is how it is, don't get paranoid about not eating, or to practice as much, because 2 plus 2 makes four, so you will see how the results will come out.” I'm physically better now. ».
Canet stressed that the arrival of Marc Márquez in MotoGP was a before and after in the physical preparation of the riders, forcing them to train more off-road both in season and in pre-season: “ after Marc Marquez, everyone started moving their upper body more and got a lot more tired " finished Canet.
