Prompt Wrote:As another offseason comes and goes, a new season begins! As usual, your player's looking like the picture perfect athlete, but how is that? For this PT, describe what sort of activities your player does in the offseason to remain in shape and keep conditioned for the regular season. Do they go on a massive juicing diet? Go for long jogs on the beach? Perhaps they pad lock the pantry to avoid the temptation of snacking? Let us know!
I find that my biggest ways of staying fit and ready in the offseason are being involved in the team-organized routine training schedule along with taking time to look over what new equipment has come out since the last season and making sure that I have the best available. There is definitely diminishing returns - when I first got a set of professional equipment it felt like it was a huge multiplier for my skills and effectiveness on the field next year. These days, it's still a noticeable boost over the last year, but I feel that my floor is higher and so it's not like I'm getting 10-50% better like it felt in the earlier years. Either way, I'm really impressed with what's available on a professional's budget vs. what I had when I was in college.
Beyond equipment and normal training, I think it's also important to reflect on what I did well last year and what I need to improve on to be at the top of my game in the future. For example, in the most recent offseason I was working on competitiveness in fighting for the football when it's near me. To work on that, I drilled on punching out the ball, wrestling it out from receivers' holds, boxing out during coverage to try and make a catch myself, and other ways to try and get the ball from the offense to me. That seemed to pay dividends in week 2, with my first interception of the year and my longest interception return of my career (though sadly I was 4 yards short of the TD). So, I'm hoping that I can keep that up for the rest of the season.
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