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Suzuki MotoGP racer Kenny Lee Roberts, 30, will be starting an intensive physical training program he calls “My Hell Week,” on Monday, January 5.

With his first test of the off-season scheduled for late-January at Sepang in Malaysia, Roberts will be going to a local gym in Modesto, California for two-and-a-half hours each morning followed by long riding sessions at his father’s ranch in nearby Hickman, California each afternoon January 5-9. After the test he will settle into a more routine training program.

“I don’t really do all the cardio stuff and the bicycle riding,” Roberts told Roadracingworld.com Friday. “I like to do things that gets my competitive spirit into shape, like beating each other up and down the basketball court for an hour or playing racquetball. That stuff does more for me than pedaling a bicycle.”

Roberts said he didn’t plan on working out with his younger brother Kurtis, who is rumored but not confirmed to be riding for Proton Team KR in the 2004 MotoGP Championship.