How much do you work during the summer?

This is a great topic because my HC and I were just discussing this last night. We are open M-Th 2x a day. I am responsible for the morning and someone else is responsible for the evening. But we want 2 people in at all times. Unfortunately, there have been days where no one but us would show up for our times. And we finally decided we needed to give coaches a set number of days responsible for the weight room.

Now, my only problem with all of that is their knowledge of the weight room and lifting procedures. Do you have confidence that all your coaches are properly trained to run the weight training sessions? If not, what do you do?

How we do it is 600a - 715 a & 300p - 400p ~ M-T-W-TH-SA (optional / makeup)

T/TH were more speed training days
SA were plyos (with lifts)

HC is at all workouts with another coach. We usually would get 2-4 coaches at every session. It wasn't REQUIRED to attend as a coach.....because we're gonna lift regardless, but weight sessions are what build your team chemistry and deeper relationships

We have done it where only am lift sessions all summer were available,too (because of low numbers in pma)

We lift in the mornings - 9am to 10am and do functional training for another hour.

We have about 40-55 kids in the weight room on M, Tu, Th, & F.

Our program has 120 kids in it and we require 38 workouts of a total of 50 during the late-spring to summer months. If a kid get's less than 38, he has extra conditioning when the season begins. No hard feeling and no questions asked. - 38 is the goal. Our main guys usually get 40-45

We man the weight room with two scheduled coaches and do it on a rotational basis. The schedule is release in early-spring - Coaches will finalize dates with their family's and then we set up the supervision schedule. Most often, than not, there are more than two coaches that show up any given day.

All of our 10 coaches receive a coaching stipend and there is no bitchin' about putting in time - it just isn't tolerated. Some of our younger coaches work jobs in the summer so the established coaches do a little more weight room time but that's called "teamwork." We talk a lot and make it work for our players.

The big piece is that our staff is very cohesive and we communicate a great deal.

Requiring your entire staff to be there during the summer might be overkill. We want to work hard but we also want to work smart. Just our way of doing this.

We go M-W-Thursday from 9-10 a.m. or from 7-8 p.m for weights. We usually do passing league on Tuesday nights. Our coaches are at most of the passing leagues and 2 sessions of weights a week. We hit a couple camps and host our own as well. In Michigan we have a lot of rules regarding off-season. For instance, we have a week where you can't see your players at all. You can never do anything with any more equipment than a helmet.

This is an outstanding idea. We have had excellent attendance in our football workouts, especially recently. I feel that the other kids get shafted due to lazy coaches, coaching turnover, etc. This would strengthen all our sports. To keep from hurting our football workouts I would probably do one time for football and another for all other sports (football would still have more in attendance).

One question for you Airman. If a student transfers into your school in early or mid-summer do you allow them to sign-up if they show strong interest?

transfer rules are really very strict in wisconsin. basically unless you move into a district, if you chose to transfer you sitout like the college boys do. but yes if a kid moves in and is going to play then yes.

we cannot do any with a football but we can do agility and plyos. this is what makes it attractive to all kids. it is more then just weight training. I mean we set up periodzation cycles for them. we test them for max bench and max hipsled or squat.