Do YOU relax in the summer?

Doing what?

Working takes up a lot of my time in the summer.  Than everything for football like weight lifting, meetings, camp, etc, as well as getting organized for the upcoming season.  And there's always things that come up for school; like this week I have three meetings for school even though we don't start for another month.  I don't have time in the spring or fall to get things done on my house, so that has to be done in the summer.

We have a week off as soon as school is out and have Wed-Sun off for the 4th. I always go somewhere during those periods and get away as much as I can at other times during the summer. I love coaching football, but it's not the only thing I want to do in life.

Nope, my time is spent opening the weight room 3-5 times a week to lift and work O and D install as well as making practice plans for both O and D. Now I'm a young single HC and I love it 99% of the time but I was very jealous when I spoke to one of the winningest coaches in our area a few week ago. He said that his school pays 2 people to open the weight room morning and evening 5 times a week in the summer. He vacations with his family and just stops in time to time in the weight room.

...there is a reason these guys have not only been able to do so long, but do it well.

My grandfather was the winningest coach in Kentucky from 1998- up until another passed him up about 10 years ago. Still in the top 10. He was a HC for 33 years & won  298 games, 5 state titles at 2 different schools that hadn't won a title before him, and haven't since he left.

I say that because what he was best at...was Golf. He's 75 and will shoot at or below his age to this day...even won the KY Senior Amateur some 12-13 years ago.  Up until his last few years of coaching before all of the intense summer/7v7 fad really cranked up, it was the following on the last day of school ... "See ya the last Monday of July, boys." As he has told and does tell me...."They needed a break from me, and I needed a break from them. If I couldn't have gotten that, played golf and spent my summers with the family, there is noway I'd have done it as long as I did."

I was mentally fried when track ended Memorial Day weekend. Thankfully had 3 weeks off before football started. Was off the week of the 4th and went out of town. Off this week due it being the dead period and doing absolutely nothing outside of some Hudl playcard stuff for week one.

In CA in our section we have a mandated 2 week dead period to be done at each schools discretion. At my previous school is was the 2 weeks prior to the start of camp. We also take the a week off right after school is out. Most coaches schedule their vacations during these times. At my new school being a boarding school we dont have the kids during the summer. At first i thought wow i get my summer back. However I didnt know what to do with myself come July, and we dont open camp for another week. Im starting to get a little anxious now...

In past years I would be up at 4:30 am M-Thursday, get to school around 5:30 and workouts in the AM would start around 6.

This year I moved across the country and haven't done anything football related until last week. This is the first summer I have enjoyed since becoming a teacher 6 years ago.

I'm between coaching gigs right now (long story) but I always found time to do the things I wanted to do during the summer. I compete in Highland Games events around the area all summer long so I get my lifting and training in for that each day as well as working on my Masters. In my last gig, we opened the weight room four days a week for a morning session and an evening session, hit one out-of-town team camp and did our own mini-camp at home. I could always make the morning sessions but the evenings could be difficult at times. So, the staff and I sat down each week and figured out who was going to run the evening session.

It's not hard to run a program and relax during the summer as long as you plan accordingly and keep everything in perspective. In my formative years as a coach, I dedicated each summer to football; I always opened the weight room, ran all over the state for camps and attended all kinds of clinics. I also spent a lot of time training throwers for various meets through out the summer.

Bc of our kids we start the day after school. We have high mobility and poverty and kids moving all over the place. So in order to stay in touch we start immediately. We go three weeks on in June and then about 2 weeks over the 4th. We go 3 weeks on again with about a week to spare on mandated dead time. Sometimes we use it sometimes we don't. During the dead time I am sure to vacation. Have made family's vacation time and try to fill them up so to speak before the season.

This year I did not work in the summer to help out at home. So even though we practice 3 times weekly and have a 7 on I am home to take kids to school swim lessons tee ball etc. I make dinner and do the shopping. I love doing that stuff with kids so it is relaxation time for me.

Every Friday I took kids out of school and met my wife at the pool in afternoon. It has been a wonderful summer.

This stuff fills me up for sure and I need it with a full class schedule a college prep program and football that moves right to winter weights to track. Track.

My wife needs me to step up bc she is a professional.

I still grind and play golf with my dad too.
I am rested up and ready start on Monday.

Took two weeks off in June and took my family to Hawaii. Much needed after spring ball.

We have a dead week period (July 4th week) and we get the last weeks of May off after spring practice ends.
Also, they took the HC and some of the assistants to Mexico on a trip paid by the HS.


Unfortunately I work at the feeder MS so I got to take my vacation to Taco Bell instead

Whether you physically go somewhere is beside the point. If you mostly get away from football for a week that counts as relaxation. 

Last season we made it to the state final (lost)..... But we played final 7 weeks on a Saturday. And we broke down film and met as a staff on Sundays. So we literally worked 49 straight days without a singe day off. I've never been so burnt . And as a staff we were all ready to kill each other. So this summer we each took time off and staggered it so there were always coaches around to supervise Mon-Thurs workouts. I took a week wi family at the beach. Another coach went to Myrtle Beach, our DC went away. We all recognized the need for time away. Now that camp has started, it's a grind like all you other guy have as well. Looking forward to the season but am glad I saw the smiles on my children's faces is summer. Really energized me.