In terms of off-season and pre-season periods, at Bristol in the UK we finished our season at the end of April. The guys then had a 5 week break before coming for pre-season which commenced on 16th June and runs until 7th September when we have our first league game. In the off-season around 50% of the players worked through strength programmes when the rest were either resting from a marathon season or undergoing rehab from operations.