My first taper as a masters swimmer will be for Nationals. In my youth, I always had huge drops after tapering for a big meet, but that was 25 years ago and frankly, I can't remember how it was done. In addition, those tapers were after 70,000 yards/week. Now I'm only doing 20-25,000 yards/week.
Any suggestions?
Also, don't forget that "rest" applies to whatever cross-training you do. If you supplement those 20-25K per week with running, lifting, cycling, or salsa dancing you need to lay off those activities also.
I think in general bigger muscles need more rest. So you especially need to rest from leg-intensive activities, whereas you probably should not rest at all from rotator-cuff exercises if you do them.
Do some browsing and you will find lots of discussion of this topic on this forum, and also on people's blogs in that section of the site.
Also, don't forget that "rest" applies to whatever cross-training you do. If you supplement those 20-25K per week with running, lifting, cycling, or salsa dancing you need to lay off those activities also.
I think in general bigger muscles need more rest. So you especially need to rest from leg-intensive activities, whereas you probably should not rest at all from rotator-cuff exercises if you do them.
Do some browsing and you will find lots of discussion of this topic on this forum, and also on people's blogs in that section of the site.
