The Taper Lane

That's great! Please give us lots of details about your taper! To start a typical in-season workout for me is this (all SCM) 800 warmup (usually 2x150swim, 200kick , 2x150pull) 4x50 drill The above is the warmup for 90% of my workouts. Then I'll do a 1000-1200m main set, and a 100 cool down. Once a week or so I'll go to a 800m main set and 3-400 kicking with a board. For my taper, I started off last friday and took all kicking out of the remaining workouts. Last fridays' workout was the 1000 warmup from above then: 3x200m @ 3:00 4x75 @ 1:15 pull 4x25 easy/sprint 5-10 minutes of working flip turns 100 cool down Sat&Sun no swimming Monday: 1000 warmup (above) 3x100 @ 1:45 work turns 3x100 @ 2:00 long and strong 4x50 @ 1:00 work turns and buildup 2nd 25 100 cooldown Monday night i did about 40 practice track starts and less than 100 total yards swimming Tuesday: No practice Tuesday night: about 500-600 warmup practiced relay starts Wednesday: 1000 warmup 2x100 pull @ 2:15 4x50 buildup @ 3:00 4x25 2 buildup/2 sprint with lots of rest (2-3 min) some turn work 200 cooldown Thursday: 1000 warmup 6x50 pull drill 2x25 buildup 3-4 race pace turns 400 cooldown Actually in typical taper fashion i felt kinda crappy in the water on friday/monday. Tuesday/wednesday I put away my drag suits and wore a plain jammer for practice to see if it'd make me feel better in the water. I still fellt kinda crappy in the water. Shaved thursday night and this morning i felt like i had a new pair of arms and legs. Crazy how a tiny taper like that can actually work in some regard. I guess I'd call it a "Rest" more than an actual taper but its all a gray area since 2300m a day to most people would be taper-like :) Hope that's detailed enough :) It was totally seat-of-the-pants each day as I made it up.

That's great! Please give us lots of details about your taper! To start a typical in-season workout for me is this (all SCM) 800 warmup (usually 2x150swim, 200kick , 2x150pull) 4x50 drill The above is the warmup for 90% of my workouts. Then I'll do a 1000-1200m main set, and a 100 cool down. Once a week or so I'll go to a 800m main set and 3-400 kicking with a board. For my taper, I started off last friday and took all kicking out of the remaining workouts. Last fridays' workout was the 1000 warmup from above then: 3x200m @ 3:00 4x75 @ 1:15 pull 4x25 easy/sprint 5-10 minutes of working flip turns 100 cool down Sat&Sun no swimming Monday: 1000 warmup (above) 3x100 @ 1:45 work turns 3x100 @ 2:00 long and strong 4x50 @ 1:00 work turns and buildup 2nd 25 100 cooldown Monday night i did about 40 practice track starts and less than 100 total yards swimming Tuesday: No practice Tuesday night: about 500-600 warmup practiced relay starts Wednesday: 1000 warmup 2x100 pull @ 2:15 4x50 buildup @ 3:00 4x25 2 buildup/2 sprint with lots of rest (2-3 min) some turn work 200 cooldown Thursday: 1000 warmup 6x50 pull drill 2x25 buildup 3-4 race pace turns 400 cooldown Actually in typical taper fashion i felt kinda crappy in the water on friday/monday. Tuesday/wednesday I put away my drag suits and wore a plain jammer for practice to see if it'd make me feel better in the water. I still fellt kinda crappy in the water. Shaved thursday night and this morning i felt like i had a new pair of arms and legs. Crazy how a tiny taper like that can actually work in some regard. I guess I'd call it a "Rest" more than an actual taper but its all a gray area since 2300m a day to most people would be taper-like :) Hope that's detailed enough :) It was totally seat-of-the-pants each day as I made it up.