tapered vs. untapered

I am a lousy workout swimmer so my results are not typical,but for 100 yd *** if I go 1:12 in work out that's really fast for me and 1:15 is more common. At an untapered meet I expect to go under 1:09 and for a taper meet about 1:07. Again, your results will vary, but ,if you are a sprinter expect to go alot faster.

how successful a taper is depends upon all the work a swimmer did before she started resting. There's also the concept of if you hit your taper or not generally if you put in a hard season you might go through cycles in your taper at first you feel good then you might feel sluggish for a week or two then you might start feeling good again typical time drops vary some swimmers improve dramcatically when they taper especially *** strokers I trained with one breastroker who would improve his 200 *** by about 8 seconds when he tapered tapering is usually good for a second or two per 100 but there's other factors that influence speed pressure motivation / psych correct splitting water temp and pool conditions how well you warmed up did you wear a fast skin luck all the swimming little skill details ande Originally posted by hooked-on-swimming Just curious what kind of time change you usually see between your best untapered work-out times and tapered competition times.Do you notice a considerable difference?Any distances are welcome. Thanks.

Originally posted by ande typical time drops vary some swimmers improve dramcatically when they taper especially *** strokers I trained with one breastroker who would improve his 200 *** by about 8 seconds when he tapered That's interesting. How does it come? But I noticed that after focusing on freestyle the last three weeks I feel like going faster and more easier on my breaststroke. So I did improve my breaststroke without acutally breastroking :confused: I guess this would be the lazy man's way of improving ;-)