Prompt 2

The offseason is a difficult balance between rest, relaxation, and preparation for the upcoming season. It’s all too easy to wrap up the season and then park yourself on the couch and catch up on all the recent shows on Netflix or Hulu that you may have missed when you were focused on playing. For others, there is a temptation to keep up their in-season regiment, especially if you had a great season (or a terrible one and want to feel you can do better.) Both these approaches are disastrous, setting up scenarios where your body and mind are not properly prepared for the upcoming season. The best approach, then, is one where you can rest a bit, recharge the batteries, but come into the season ready to go. For Jon St. Ark, he takes a few weeks off at the start of the offseason to rest some of the wear and tear from the season and then slowly ramps up over the course of the offseason. Longer and more difficult practice sessions until he’s in game shape.