Fort, your a stud and a rock star and you had a great meet...I think you are going 100% in the right direction. My point to you was that IMHO you weren't feeling fatigue at the end of the meet because you tapered to much...but rather because as all of us get older the reality of swimming so many events is that were going to feel it...hard...no matter how in shape and how much we rest/don't rest. Dennis Baker said at worlds that 1 event per day was it...pure focus, pure commitment to excelling at one thing...I admire that and am moving more and more in that direction.
Listen...anyone who is a workout animal and is clear that is what they want to be I'm all for it...I struggle in my own training because I love to workout and less is more is a struggle for me....but I look at my own motivation/goals as a spectrum and remind myself that trying to train quality when completely broken down doesn't work.
At the far end and the single biggest priority for me it's social, then racing, followed by general overall conditioning. So when and if I workout it tends to follow that order-progression. What I choose is completely different that a lot of folks and thats fine and what this is all about. I bring up the points I'm making because of the discussion being somewhat slanted towards competing...and if you want to improve in this area and are serious about it what many people are doing won't work.
Fort, your a stud and a rock star and you had a great meet...I think you are going 100% in the right direction. My point to you was that IMHO you weren't feeling fatigue at the end of the meet because you tapered to much...but rather because as all of us get older the reality of swimming so many events is that were going to feel it...hard...no matter how in shape and how much we rest/don't rest. Dennis Baker said at worlds that 1 event per day was it...pure focus, pure commitment to excelling at one thing...I admire that and am moving more and more in that direction.
Listen...anyone who is a workout animal and is clear that is what they want to be I'm all for it...I struggle in my own training because I love to workout and less is more is a struggle for me....but I look at my own motivation/goals as a spectrum and remind myself that trying to train quality when completely broken down doesn't work.
At the far end and the single biggest priority for me it's social, then racing, followed by general overall conditioning. So when and if I workout it tends to follow that order-progression. What I choose is completely different that a lot of folks and thats fine and what this is all about. I bring up the points I'm making because of the discussion being somewhat slanted towards competing...and if you want to improve in this area and are serious about it what many people are doing won't work.
