What is the point of playing a game if you do not go spend a bunch of time on vacation during the offseason? They have gyms at the resort right? And then you get all that money that you gotta spend at some time so I say the offseason should be heavily awesome and only lightly sucky. Now that being said - I am assuming that a professional athlete's version of "sucky" is a lot more work than my personal opinion of "sucky" but gotta make sure to get that rest and relaxation in.

So lets just say you are on a team that didn't win the cup and are off starting in May. Go spend June and July doing whatever it is you want to do while still generally spending some time at the gym, then hit it hard in August. But this is probably also why I am not a professional athlete. I would be a tub of lard burning poolside while drinking margaritas and never make it back to camp.