Most have gone through rigorous individual training programs, some have started their own podcasts, others turn to gaming, Netflix or golf.

For UK-based Ryan Edwards, education has been his focus while the season enters its third month since shutdown.

The 26-year-old Aussie, who plays for Burton Albion in League One, lives in Birmingham with his partner.

He says studying has helped him deal with the unusual situation.

"You'd be falling into bad habits, watching TV and waiting for football to return," Edwards told FTBL. "So it's been good to have something away from football to focus on.

"I'm studying psychology, which is great. I've just finished my first year. I started with business management, and after I finished that I changed to psychology.

"This year I went to part-time to full-time study, which has been better because there's more enyoyable content to do. I'm just in the process of picking my modules for my second year."

Edwards meditates every morning and has been in touch with a sports psychologist since he joined Reading as a 17-year-old back in 2011.

The midfielder spents four to six hours studying each day, in between exercise workouts, and has always been interested in behaviour and how the brain affects it.

"Initially, I like to research or find out why we do things and why our mind works the way it dones," he explained.

"That's always been an interest of mine. I also believe that our mind is a muscle. We're all training our bodies, but it's important to train your mind as well for football and for outside of football as well."

Channelling his mind is something that Edwards has used throughout his football career.

"I write down my goals for the game ahead," he said. "I've learnt to code my own games. I watch back games myself and code my own games on my laptop.

"That side of visualisation of looking back at your game, or just watching a general Champions League or Premier League game, your brain looks at that and takes things back to the training pitch that you're working on.

"If you speak to professional athletes they will talk about that moment on the pitch where everything just flows effortlessly. It's called being in a state of flow. So you learn about that and how you can get into state in every training session and game.

"You're fine-tuning your brain for the training or the game ahead."

Edwards admits he is unsure what field he will go into once he hungs up his boots.

"Maybe post-football whether I want to go along the lines of a sport psychology route, but starting to study I had more of an interest in the well-being and mental health side," the former Perth Glory player said.

"I don't know really what angle I want to take, I'm just enjoying the content I'm learning and we'll see what happens."

For now, he waits like everyone else to see when the season will resume.

At the cutoff point Burton Albion sat 12th in the 23-team League One. With 48 points the Brewers are safe from the drop, but 11 points from a playoff place.

Regardless when the campaign resumes and in what format, Edwards is adamant he wants to get back on the pitch.

"We've had an up and down season," he said.

"Even though we're mid-table, bit too far from the play-offs but safe from relegation, I was speaking to my teammates and we want to finish the season. I think I've played 44, 45 games this season and there's 10 games to go so you want it to be finished.

"You don't want it to be voided. We all to finish the season."