Hey out there. So summer is in full effect now which means one thing- training camp is just around the corner and the offseason is finally over. Although the word offseason is a very misleading word. If anything, it's more like an off month, that's all.

The myth is that the offseason is one big relaxing vacation, but the truth is, we work all year round and I maintain a very disciplined training regimen.

It's a 5-day-a-week lifting program from April through July, when training camp starts. February is really the best month because we're truly off. The coaches encourage us to really get away from the game in that month to rest the mind, to rest the body. Then in March, we kind of start working out on our own. The official offseason program starts in April, then the mini camps start.

To help us stay on the program, we have a strength coach with the Colts who has been there as long as I have been there. He designs a workout for each and every player, position-specific. Even as a quarterback, we do all the main weightlifting exercises. We certainly work the arm and rotator cuff, but we also focus on our legs since that's where your power as a quarterback comes from. The other key area of focus is the core, the middle body and the upper body, so we can absorb the hits from the big defensive players.

Lifting weights is important, but we're also doing a lot of running. But the running we do is very football-specific. We're not just out there running miles on end anymore. That's not what you do in a football game so it doesn't make sense for us to do. Our emphasis is on sprinting in short intervals, trying to simulate game situations - from the Huddle to a scramble or whatever it may be.

Of course, you have to do a lot of throwing in the offseason with your receivers. You get the timing down in April and May, get on the same page then so you can hit that critical 3rd and 8 pass to Reggie Wayne in November.

Over the course of the past 10 years, I've really honed in on my routine and figured out what works for me, but everyone is different. Work with your coaches, but for me, it is a strenuous program with lots of repetitions to also get the mental work in at the same time.

3 weeks to training camp! Get excited.