​The MotoGP summer break may have begun, but German Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez says he plans to hit the gym hard in order to return fully fit and contend for an eighth premier-class world title. After collecting a full quota of 37 points at the Sachsenring on Sunday, Marquez moved up from fifth to third in the championship. The motivated Spaniard is not planning to spend the coming weeks lounging on a beach; he views the break as the perfect window to put his long battle with injuries behind him and push toward peak form for the second half of the season.
Marquez has ridden a fluctuating fitness ride since his Mandalika crash late last year. He has claimed three of the last four races, yet he concedes that the right arm that has caused him so much trouble still isn’t back to normal. Two of his three victories came at circuits known for being less physically demanding – Balaton and the Sachsenring – while the Czech GP triumph required him to push himself to the limit. To be competitive on every kind of track in the latter part of the season, he believes he must take advantage of the summer break to establish a sustained, grueling training rhythm.
“I will approach the break with love, happiness and try to take a rest on the mental side,” he said in the post-race press conference after his dominant win in Germany. “But on the physical side, I will try to keep working. Because one of the points that I cannot do like in the past [is that] I cannot train every day. I always need to have some days between hard training. That’s where I need more time to come back to my level. But we will try to do it.”
Marquez, who rides for Ducati Team, also revealed that he has been living in Madrid partly because the city offers specialized training equipment that he finds beneficial. When pressed to elaborate on taking a rest “on the mental side,” he touched on the rough start to 2025, which stemmed from a loose screw stemming from a previous operation that affected his feel for the bike. A corrective surgical procedure was performed in May, addressing the issue.
“You cannot imagine how stressful the first part of the season was for me,” he continued. “The first five races… because I didn’t understand anything. I was crashing without knowing what was happening, because the nerves didn’t give me any warning. And then, as I said at Brno, it’s impossible to ride with the intensity we did in the Hungarian GP and the Czech GP. Here it’s true that I was able to ride in a better way, so let’s see if, step by step, I can ride in the same manner, but with less stress.”
Marquez’s comments come as he maintains focus on maintaining his physical readiness while staying mentally fresh during the break. The aim is to return with improved fitness, re-earn race rhythm, and push toward adding titles to his already illustrious career. He also hinted that post-break training would be structured to balance effort and recovery, enabling him to maintain high performance across varied tracks and race conditions as the season resumes.
As fans digest his plans, the broader implication is clear: Marquez is not content to rest on his Sachsenring laurels. Instead, he intends to convert the summer layoff into a productive period of targeted conditioning and strategic recuperation. With his sights set on a return to peak form, the next phase of the campaign will reveal whether the rigorous, carefully managed training schedule can translate into a late-season surge and a potential eighth premier-class championship for the eight-time world champion.