Ideal amount of rest time after season

Most people will say 3 weeks off of everything (I think this is especially true for the highest level where it may be as long as 5-6 weeks from people I have talked to if they have been competing at the highest levels into September with many competitions). I always felt really odd not doing anything for more than a week and did some light warm-ups and strides on grass and light (essentially extended warm-up) lifting for a couple weeks.