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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Since you are a distance swimmer Kirk's plan should work well.A spriter would do better with more rest-at least a 3 wk taper.For the first 2 weeks of my taper I don't decrease yardage,I just increase the recovery swim to race pace ratio.I find as I get older(60) I need more warm up/cool down.
I've noticed needing more warm up even during practice. I hadn't thought about needing more cool down, but that's a great tip especially since I'm entered in both events on day 1.:shakeshead:
Since you are a distance swimmer Kirk's plan should work well.A spriter would do better with more rest-at least a 3 wk taper.For the first 2 weeks of my taper I don't decrease yardage,I just increase the recovery swim to race pace ratio.I find as I get older(60) I need more warm up/cool down.
I've noticed needing more warm up even during practice. I hadn't thought about needing more cool down, but that's a great tip especially since I'm entered in both events on day 1.:shakeshead:
