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?
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Thanks for the input. I'm purely a distance guy and quite concerned about resting too much and losing what conditioning I do have. However, I already discovered my body needs more rest than it used to. After some hard double days, I tried backing off for 2 days before a meet in March. Didn't work. my 500 was substantially slower than back in November and still felt quite tired. Two weeks later, at the end of practice, we did a 500 for time and I was faster than at the last meet.:confused:
Thanks for the input. I'm purely a distance guy and quite concerned about resting too much and losing what conditioning I do have. However, I already discovered my body needs more rest than it used to. After some hard double days, I tried backing off for 2 days before a meet in March. Didn't work. my 500 was substantially slower than back in November and still felt quite tired. Two weeks later, at the end of practice, we did a 500 for time and I was faster than at the last meet.:confused:
