the.com/off season
When the athlete becomes a regular person again, badly and in public.
means The part of the year when the activity, resort, or industry you're thinking of isn't running at full tilt, and everything gets quieter and cheaper.
from A straightforward 19th-century pairing of 'off' (not active, switched off) with 'season' (the time period when a thing happens) — first used for trade and travel, like the 'off season' for hotels or crops, before people started applying it to athletes, who apparently also have a harvest cycle.
- actual meaning
- training harder, just without the scoreboard watching
- body comp
- muscle gained equals donuts, allegedly equally
- fan behavior
- panic over every photo showing visible stomach
- true purpose
- fix the injury nobody let you rest