What does your summer look like?

We go at 830 in the morning Mon-Thursday. We found that if we go later in the day our attendance dropped and kids found something else to do. We split our kids into JV and varsity. JV runs and does speed/agility while varsity lifts. Then they switch, then we go on the field and practice for an hour. 30 min o and 30 min d. Now some Tuesdays we may let them go after lifting and running and some Wednesdays we may go outside and practice and condition the whole time and not lift. But this is our normal summer day. 

I agree with what realdawg said about the earlier you go the better.  I've had my doubts over the years as I thought many kids would just sleep in and skip workouts, but I too have found that the earlier you go the better.  I like our summer program the way it is set up.  It is four days a week, but only scheduled for two hours and often times we are done after only 90 minutes.  It's short, but we still get a lot done.

As mentioned, we do go Monday through Thursday from 8-10 in the morning.  The first hour we are in the weight room and the second hour we are on the field.  I don't recall exactly how the lifting schedule is set up, but I know the kids bench twice a week, squat twice a week, and hang clean twice a week plus some auxillary lifts too.  One thing that helps us get a lot done, imho, is that when we go on the field, we rarely if ever do full team stuff.  The HC and I work with the OL/DL and the QB coach/OC and a couple other coaches work with the skill position guys.  Depending on numbers, the freshmen coaches may work their guys in a team setting or an individual setting.  Now, our skill guys do end up being pretty busy, because we have 7 on 7 almost every Tuesday evening and then a few Wednesday afternoons too.

Good point on working around the summer baseball.  I like going in the morning, but I should point out with my post that we almost have to go at that time, because baseball is a summer sport in Iowa. 

Weights:
MWF
1st group (starters/key players/top 48) 8-10. 
2nd group (developmental players) 10-12. 
Middle School 6-8

Speed Development:
TTh
Small groups 8-12
1 hour per session, but really only working hard on running/form/etc.. for 20-25 minutes

Contact:
A NO NO in SC

7-7:
TTh 10-11:30
Prepractice/Intall
Warm ups
Indy
Team
Varsity, JV, C Team (freshman)
Middle School 6-7:30

7-7 Competitions:
We can go against another school 10 days in the summer

Film:
If we have film work we meet TTh about 30 minutes before going out for 7-7

Summer school:
If we have someone in summer school there are times they can come lift in the evenings, even though the work is not varsity level work.  That is the motivation.

Goals:
Since in SC we cannot have 'camp', the summer goals are to continue to add weight/strength, improve speed, and install/rep our primary passing sets and concepts, and coverages.

We were lucky at the previous school I was coaching at. We had a former collegiate strength coach who knew what exactly was going on. In Kansas we are limited to what we can do in the summer as far as practice is concerned. We were a rural school so we came in from 6:30-8:15 on M, W, and Th. Had the high school kids work out together for the first hour. Then they would go do either conditioning, agilities, or speed stuff depending on what day it was. Everything fit and worked perfectly. While the high school kids lifted the JH would be doing the speed, conditioning, or agilities. Then they would go do their workout. Completely different workout more geared towards junior high kids. We got more out of our kids in 3 days than we would have ha we gone 4 days. We also would have a 2 week camp with no contact. One week at the beginning of the summer and one at the end. Every other week we would do individual drills in place of conditioning. I would also run a practice on Wednesday nights that was voluntary. We would just work on our passing game from the spread as a change up for our DW in case we would need it in the season. Kids loved coming over the summer and held their buddies accountable. Had around 50+ kids there every day for a school that only had 60 on the entire roster.

Worked great at our small school in Kansas but I'm sure it would be much different if we were in another state that allowed contact and things like that over the summer.

This is an interesting topic for me as we are looking to upgrade our summer work. Here we get 25 days to be with our kids not including strength and conditioning. In the past we have not reached that number for various reason but we have lifted morning and done camp/practice in the evening(2 4 day sessions 1 at begginng and 1 at the end of summer) We have also play 7 v 7 5 or 6 times and we go to a 3 day team camp. The last 2 years we have had poor or sporadic attendance at camps so here is our plan this summer. We will still do 7 v 7 and team camp as always. We will have a 4 day camp in evening right before we go to team camp and then when we return we will go Mon - Thurs in the am. Mon will be lifting and speed Tues Lift and indy, Wed Team pract/install and Thurs lifting and speed. Our indy and Practice time will only be about an hour. Here is my question. By only installing and being together as a team on the field once per week will their be enough consistency for the learning to carry over?

Summer regulations obviously vary from state to state.

As does when official Football practice and season (games) start.

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you HAVE to (or SHOULD) do something June-July.

Varsity Only

Weights:
M, Tu, Th, F
2 groups: offense and defense. One group lifts while the other works core, speed drills, etc.
2-3:30 pm


Speed Development:
M, Tu, Th,
1 group
3:30 - 4:15 pm

Contact:
F
Practice in helmets only. No real contact, but allows us to install offense, defense and special teams as well as simply learning how to practice

7-7 Competitions:
Will play one team weekly, usually on Thursday. Will also attend a few tournaments

Film:
Install before practice on Fridays. Position coaches review practice film and teach on Monday before workouts

Summer school:
Ends before we begin at 2pm. Has not been a problem for us thus far.

ETC:
Hold a youth camp early in the summer.
Players are required to attend 90% of all activities over 10 week period
Position coaches are responsible for their players. If you want him to play for you, you will make sure he attends 90%

We will lift in the morning. If players have to attend Summer School, we have the weightroom open before school for them so they do not miss out on the workout.

We run multiple sessions for weights in the summer. Our morning sessions start at 6:30 and run till 8am so kids that have to work can make it. We also run evening and even one late session after basketball practice for those kids. I've found that giving them flexibility on getting in eliminates excuses.

We ask our kids to lift 3 days a week for 8 weeks.
We also have a position mini-camp for every position (OL,DE,DT,WR, etc....)
Play in a 7 on 7 league
We have our own non-contact team camp
We attend a Contact team camp against other schools hosted at a local college.

I am the Head Football coach and the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for all sports. 

In Nebraska, you cannot have organized football practice unless you are preparing for a football camp or jamoboree... And then all that contact is supposed to only happen in a 3 week window.  Obviously, that doesn't happen for everyone. 

We have strength and conditioning sessions 3 times per week, on M, T, Th. from 7-9am or 7-9pm.  This way kids that work in the morning have no excuse (well at least a good excuse) not to lift.  Nobody works from 7am until 9pm at night.  Our session include lifting/vertimax/plyometrics.  We do vertimax twice per week and track conditioning/sprinting the 3rd day.  Our athletes have a goal of making 90% of the sessions.  Ultimately it is up the each sport's Head Coach as to what the punishment/makeup is for kids who didn't hit the goal. 

As for football things in the summer, we host our own 8 team football jamboree (scrimmage camp).  one is at our high school facility and one is at a neighboring town's facility.  3rd week of june and the 2nd week of july.  We also will participate in a 7 on 7 league every saturday morning in June.  We start our actual fall practice in mid August. 

I'm a big believer in kids playing alot of different sports.  I don't want my football players only playing football.  Playing Basketball, wrestling and running track is only going to make you a better overall athlete and football player.  So in the summer, our kids are super busy with football camp, basketball camps, playing baseball, and lifting weights.  That's why we only go 3 days and nothing on Friday, saturday, and obviously Sunday in the weight room.  Kids have to have time to be kids too. 

We start the Monday after school ends up until July 31 when we start a black out for two or so weeks. They get some days off around the 4th depending when it falls.

We are Monday thru Friday, 3-5:30. First hour is either strength or speed training, except for Friday.