Off-Season Pitfalls | What Athletes Get Wrong in their Training When the Pressure's Off

Update: 2025-11-03

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Welcome back to another episode of The Kaizen Performance Podcast

In this weeks episode we talked all things pitfalls athlete make in the Off Season

Paddy took the reigns in this first episode of our two part series covering some of the most common pitfalls he sees athlete make when it comes to their S&C this time of year and how you can go about solving them

Some of the Pitfalls we covered...

"Just sprinting more" to get faster
Load doesn't need to be managed in Off Season
Going after too many things at once
Forgetting the Game Completely

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Paddy & Mark

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Off-Season Pitfalls | What Athletes Get Wrong in their Training When the Pressure's Off

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Where to Start this Off-Season | Downtime, Paralysis by Analysis and The Core Fundamentals to Staying Athletic

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Our Top Nutritional Tools for Optimal Recovery | Context, Cakes and Rating Current Recovery Trends

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How to Create Your In-Season Recovery Strategy | Downtime, Common Misconceptions, and Ice Bath Bans

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Off-Season Pitfalls | What Athletes Get Wrong in their Training When the Pressure's Off

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Off-Season Pitfalls | What Athletes Get Wrong in their Training When the Pressure's Off

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Off-Season Pitfalls | What Athletes Get Wrong in their Training When the Pressure's Off