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Obviously, just being on a sol-
id program like JGR, and signing
with a team like that and being
able to start testing and then
developing the bike sooner than
being a privateer and struggling
trying to get stuff developed and
ready for you. We started testing
before Monster Cup. It's just
having that foundation and hav-
ing all that support coming into
the season and having awesome
people behind you supporting
you and backing you with every-
thing from riding your bike and
just the bike itself. Everybody
around you, around the team,
everybody's super positive. It's
just an awesome team.
These last few weeks of be-
ing hurt, has that kind of held
you back as far as testing?
Well, I've been riding actually
the last two or three weeks, I've
been able to get back on the
bike.
But there for a while you
couldn't ride at all, right?
For a while there when I was
going through my injury, I was
off the bike for about five weeks.
Not being on the bike for that
long really kind of—you just can't
really do much. You're just stuck
there wanting to do something
and you can't. It is what it is
when you get hurt.
From what I saw of you last
year and now, you are chis-
eled. You have lost a lot of
weight since last year. Do you
have a trainer or are you do-
ing all this yourself?
I have my trainer Buddy
Antunez and he does mostly my
stuff on the dirt bike, when we're
training on the bike, but he also
builds me a small program of
gym work and road bike work
and all that kind of stuff. I also
hired a nutritionist, Michelle
Casillas, she definitely kicked
me into gear on getting the prop-
er food in me. I think if it wasn't
for her, I wouldn't have cut the
weight just because it's such a
huge deal to get your nutrition in
and cut the weight. I cut about
16 pounds from last year to this
year, so it's definitely a huge
difference. Just being able to be
more fit and have more endur-
ance because you're lighter and
stuff like that.
Do you go to a gym or are
you doing most of it on moun-
