Hello,
My 16 year old has been swimming 3000-4000 yards 5x week on the local team for the past 5 months. (This is after a year out for shoulder surgery, and a year of swimming prior to that. His shoulder is doing fine.) He has 6 months until high school varsity swim team tryouts in August. High school workouts will be 6000 yards 5x week beginning in August.
I want to plan his training to both peak for his varsity tryout in August, and to be acclimated to the increased yardage.
I know nothing about swimming tapers so I'm strictly guessing. Roughly I thought he might begin now adding 1 - 6000 yard workout a week say for the first month, then 2 per week etc, until in June he can do 6000 - 5x a week. I would guess that July he would taper in some way....maybe:
First week 6000 yrd 1x, 3000 4x
Second week 3000 yrd 4x
Third week 3000 yrd 2x
Fourth week 3000 yrd 1x
Your advice is appreciated.
Thank you!
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Since we're on the subject about tapering..
Just want to know everyone's opinions about carbs. This is a key element in tapering as most athletes consume carbs in forms such as pasta as their dinner the day before the big meet. Should swimmers who have a championship meet in say 4 months be eating a lot of carbs now, or maybe consume less now and more closer to the meet day to get more of an energy boast?
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Former Member
Since we're on the subject about tapering..
Just want to know everyone's opinions about carbs. This is a key element in tapering as most athletes consume carbs in forms such as pasta as their dinner the day before the big meet. Should swimmers who have a championship meet in say 4 months be eating a lot of carbs now, or maybe consume less now and more closer to the meet day to get more of an energy boast?
