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Tapering?

pwolf66
What is it? And how does one do it? Paul
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  • to me tapering is the the time to reduce yardage increase quality decrease quantity sharpen racing skills get stronger get faster and rest you have to experiement to figure out what works best for you follow my 2007 SCM season starting Sept 1, 2007 forums.usms.org/showthread.php my taper for that season started Saturday, November 3, 2007 forums.usms.org/showthread.php for the meet that started Dec 1st, 2007 forums.usms.org/showthread.php the way you taper depends on the training you did that season and what works best for you some people believe you can hit or miss your taper I believe you can arrive at your peak taper conditioning then maintain it study that season then make your plan of action your taper depends on the competitions you're preparing for Here's my plan this season is I'm competeting on / in / events 1) March 6 - 8 LCM Human Performance Labs All-American Long Course Championships events 50 fr 100 fr 100fl 100 bk 200 bk 2) 3/28/2008 - 3/30/2008 SCY South Central Zone SCY Championships - San Antonio, TX (i'll swim events here that I'm not going to swim at Nats) 3) USMS 2008 SCY Nats www.tsc.utexas.edu/.../ day 2 50 Fly 50 fr day 3 100 IM 100 bk day 4 100 fl 100 fr I'm going to train fairly hard till from now to Feb 21 then rest 2 weeks for for the All AM LC Ch then focus on speed and strength for zones then focus continue to focus on speed and strength in April and taper 2 or 3 weeks for Nats
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  • to me tapering is the the time to reduce yardage increase quality decrease quantity sharpen racing skills get stronger get faster and rest you have to experiement to figure out what works best for you follow my 2007 SCM season starting Sept 1, 2007 forums.usms.org/showthread.php my taper for that season started Saturday, November 3, 2007 forums.usms.org/showthread.php for the meet that started Dec 1st, 2007 forums.usms.org/showthread.php the way you taper depends on the training you did that season and what works best for you some people believe you can hit or miss your taper I believe you can arrive at your peak taper conditioning then maintain it study that season then make your plan of action your taper depends on the competitions you're preparing for Here's my plan this season is I'm competeting on / in / events 1) March 6 - 8 LCM Human Performance Labs All-American Long Course Championships events 50 fr 100 fr 100fl 100 bk 200 bk 2) 3/28/2008 - 3/30/2008 SCY South Central Zone SCY Championships - San Antonio, TX (i'll swim events here that I'm not going to swim at Nats) 3) USMS 2008 SCY Nats www.tsc.utexas.edu/.../ day 2 50 Fly 50 fr day 3 100 IM 100 bk day 4 100 fl 100 fr I'm going to train fairly hard till from now to Feb 21 then rest 2 weeks for for the All AM LC Ch then focus on speed and strength for zones then focus continue to focus on speed and strength in April and taper 2 or 3 weeks for Nats
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