Tom Thibodeau enjoys daily walks along Lake Michigan

He goes with egg-white omelets these days, all veggies, no ham and no cheese. Hold the hash browns. Side order of mixed fruit, plus a banana. He picks the whole wheat toast but when the server claims the kitchen doesn’t have peanut butter (!) it goes untouched.

Most days, the non-coaching coach puts himself through two-a-days. The mornings are for walks along Lake Michigan, often from Oak Street Beach on the north to the Bears’ Soldier Field to the south and back. Later in the afternoon, he’s likely to be at the East Bank Club, the city’s go-to exclusive health club for executives and celebrities. All that work he used to grind his guys through, occasionally stealing a few minutes to lift or hop on a treadmill, Thibodeau pushes himself through.