Written Task: What kind of lifestyle should a hockey player live in the offseason? How can you best strike a balance between recreation and relaxation, and training for the next season? Should you simply spent the first half in the Caribbean and the second half in the gym, or is there some other training regimen you follow? Feel free to tell me what your player happens to do, or to showcase your own expertise in real-world athletic training!

In the offseason, you should see a hockey player doing some relaxing as well as training. If you are always training and always hitting the ice you are going to burn out so fast that you will not be able to enjoy being a professional In the sport any more. You will start looking for other activities and start slacking off in games until the team decides they no longer want you. So what should an ideal offseason look like? As outlined in the question, you should take your vacation immediately and go live it up. Do whatever you want for weeks then come back refreshed and ready to get back to the grindstone to prepare you for the season. You can not skip working out entirely, but you should go at light heartedly until a month before the season and then you should really get into it.