Hello guys i have a question, i have this big meet comming up the week of December 9-11 and my team is tapering for it. My question is that while tapering should i stop going to the weight room or am i able to keep going?
Hello guys i have a question, i have this big meet comming up the week of December 9-11 and my team is tapering for it. My question is that while tapering should i stop going to the weight room or am i able to keep going?
Does your team give you a choice or something? What does your coach say?
But I would agree, no lifting weights in taper.
probably sound stupid for asking. But whats taper? :confused:
In brief, it is the short 'rest period' many swimmers(athletes in general) take before their most important/biggest competitions. Allows the body to 'rebuild' a bit so you can race at your finest. Taper only works after a swimmer has been consistently training. From my experience in swimming, if you train year-round there will between 2 to 4 taper periods per year
Hello guys
i have a question, i have this big meet comming up the week of
December 9 - 11 and my team is tapering for it.
My question is that while tapering should i stop going to the weight room or am i able to keep going?
Different folks have different opinions
I prefer to lift close to meets, backing off in the water gives me a chance to get stronger in the weight room, then I'll back off the week before &
stop 2 or 3 days before. I do this because I've done a lot of swim work outs after lifting and I've been able to swim fast in practice. Sometimes I'll quit leg weights sooner than arms. If anything is injured, I may skip the exercises that use injured or sore muscles.
Make a Daily Lifting Plan
M 21
T 22
W 23
T 24
F 25
S 26
S 27
M 28
T 29
W 30
T 01
F 02
S 03
S 04
M 05
T 06
W 07
T 08
F 09 Meet
S 10 Meet
S 11 Meet
probably sound stupid for asking. But whats taper? :confused:
Swim Faster Faster
Tip 26 Tapering
Tip 126 Taper Time
Tip 249 Preparing to Perform at your Highest levels
Tip 341 Index of SFF Tips for Swimmers Who are Preparing for a BIG Meet
Tip 342 Taper Planning Tips
I need 1.5-2 weeks without weights to swim fastest. In Jason Lezak's taper (www.bodybuilding.com/.../jasonlezak1.htm) in the last 5 weeks the sets he does by week are 3x21, 3x10, 2x10, 1x10, and nothing the week before.
I did that exact taper from weights several times in the last few years. I found that I recovered pretty well, but this season I didn't do any of the 21-rep sets at all- I just stuck between 6 and 10 reps since May.
The 4 weeks leading up to my meet on Dec 4th consist of 4x6, 1x6, 1x4, and this week is 1x2 at the heaviest I could do at 4x6. Next week will be no lifting and the meet is on the 4th.
So, slightly different this time, but I didn't want to "forget" what lifting heavy feels like but also want to recover. We'll see how it goes.
Regarding the OP, most folks stop lifting hard a few weeks out, but some like Ande swim fast with only a few days of rest from weights. Experiment- everyone is different.
From May to the end of October for weights I did the stronglifts program which is 5 sets of 5 reps of squats, deadlifts, bench press, standing overhead press, and barbell row (Pendlay row). I had a meet a week ago and most events I went similar times as last year for a tapered but not shaved down meet but my 50 fly was over 0.6s faster than I ever swam at a meet not shaved down.
The last time I stopped weights only 1 week before a meet I did a timed 50 in practice the week after the meet faster than I did at the meet. I have found I am very fast for a couple weeks after a taper meet so for me it is better to error on stopping too early. This is with lifting heavy until I stop lifting. If the weights were tapered like Jason Lezak's program lifting until 1 week before would probably work well.
