As I've mentioned ad naseum i've been training since January for a meet this coming Sunday. I'm only doing 50y events at this time. My question is over the last week I have lowered the total yardage I have done each night but have added more speed type work and 25/50y sprints. If you have 5 days till your meet how would you plan out your workouts if you plan on hitting the pool 3 of those days?
I swam my best times ever after I got frustrated and blew a taper. After diligently trying to follow a taper program, I said, "screw it," and went back to usual, or even more. Swam a full workout Friday morning, ran and lifted Friday night, and ran 14+ miles early Sunday morning before showing up at the meet. I only got in about a 200 yard warmup before my first event.
I've only done a couple of full-on tapers, and only shaved once, and results after those were mixed. Definitely not worth it to me to deal with time and frustration of shaving and tapering.
The coach of the team I swim with now typically tapers the whole team for specific meets, but these tapers are nothing like what I read of others doing. More like just cutting a little distance and adding in a little speedwork in the 3-5 days before a meet.
I swam my best times ever after I got frustrated and blew a taper. After diligently trying to follow a taper program, I said, "screw it," and went back to usual, or even more. Swam a full workout Friday morning, ran and lifted Friday night, and ran 14+ miles early Sunday morning before showing up at the meet. I only got in about a 200 yard warmup before my first event.
I've only done a couple of full-on tapers, and only shaved once, and results after those were mixed. Definitely not worth it to me to deal with time and frustration of shaving and tapering.
The coach of the team I swim with now typically tapers the whole team for specific meets, but these tapers are nothing like what I read of others doing. More like just cutting a little distance and adding in a little speedwork in the 3-5 days before a meet.
