Staying Healthy as a Coach

Replace meals with Skoal. Thats what I used to do to keep the weight off...haha Now I try to workout even if its just the tiniest bit in the morning before work. Also, eat small meals every two hours instead of 2 or 3 giant ones throughout the day. Been doing this for about a month and i'm losing weight and I feel terrific

In the off season, I have to force myself to get away from the game and start enjoying "life" again by going to concerts, aggressively dating, read more (not FB....lol), bike riding, hiking, boating........just GETTING AWAY and building relationships OUTSIDE of football......to keep me sane.

It's always football season...sometimes just longer between games.

Balance is essential to a healthy life. Need family life, friends, and at least one hobby outside of the game. Eating sensibly, exercise (even just walking), watching alcohol/tobacco intake are crucial. And some kind of spirituality helps, too.

i think coaches create there own health and family problems.

i believe most coaches have addictive personalities and the more is better approach is though to work end though less is more.

I have to agree whole heartedly with you airman. Coaches are so addictive, they have that drive. Heck, to find that extra hobby away from football, I took up coaching track. And I find that driving me more for football.

It's almost funny because my wife knows exactly what to do when I need something to do, she puts on an old game tape and tells me to break it down...

good food, exercise, prayer, sunday school class , combine this with sex daily and I think football coaches would have a much higher level of health.

positive self talk tapes also help.

you have the sex life you choose. you want your woman daily, you are going to have to invest daily in the relationship outside of sex. talking/listening. you reap what you sew in a relationship. invest little, get little. invest a lot, get a lot.

then there is always your right or left hand. lol.

a beautiful sunrise in the duck blind.

Great thread, I've always been heavy, but now that I'm getting a little older, I'm finding that sometimes practice wipes me out a little more than it used to. Being a big guy can affect your coaching in ways you don't really think of until they happen. My goal is to become more active during the off season (what there is of it!) and maintain the activity and exercise during the season. Gotta stay active, flexible and mobile!

Now if I can just work the "daily sex" idea into a conversation with my wife . . .

Great idea... I used to do that my freshman year of college - I just imagined the face of whatever prof. was pissing me off that week on it when I got tired and i found I could go another minute or two hard! :-)

Coach Smith

Offseason can be a drag at times because I am around our guys for about 44 weeks of the year. We have very few multi sport guys anymore and the one that are multi sport are in track so they lift with us all year. So my time away is needed and I look forward to it. I have to have my familiy time esp as my kids are getting older. So we have our trips to the Colorado River every other week from April until Aug. Nothing better than being at the river with your family and friends out on the boats drinking a beer. The key guys on our staff we all go out to the river together (HC/OC, Me, and my right hand man DL coach)

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and catoc, you are SO correct. I have a soon to be 3 year old. She could care less about football, she wants daddy to play with her. Matching Game, Barbies, Playdo, Coloring, puzzles, dolls, whatever, COUNT ME IN!!!!! I so much enjoy my time with her, she will probably never know how much she has changed my life for the better (wife should be included here too, but do not tell her!) I can't remember how I lived before I was married, and early marriage memories are fading because of life now with my little girl. That little grin and giggle when she beats me in the Matching Game damn near makes my heart melt! Best part is right now, loser has to give the winner a kiss, so the "pain" of losing is short lived for me.

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