I have talked to people and they say things like "yeah but once im tapered ill lose another 4 seconds or such"
I searched through the forums and didnt see much explaining what tapering is except that it is a rested period before a meet.
Last year i consistently swam 1 12s (100 scy ***) and then i tapered for almost my last two weeks to get my best time before the last meet of the season. But i ended up gaining a second in that meet and swam a 1 13...
so what kind of sets are you supposed to do while tapering? when we tapered as a team we swam short yards on long intervals... like 50s on the 2 minutes. I was tlaking to a couple kids today about their tapering and they said they do hard sets but a lot of rest between sets to build your pace up.. like 100s on the 1 15 but after the set, rest for like 10 minutes and then the day before the meet you do like one small hard set and then rest.
The kid i was talkign to ended up dropping like 4-5 seconds off a 100 after tapering...
So really my question is what kind of sets are you supposed to do for tapering? and is tapering SUPPOSED to quicken your time? cause to me it seems i swim the best the day after i have a really long hard practice
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What type of workouts do you do?
What are your events?
I swim 100 breaststroke scy and 100 freestyle scy
lately my workouts are about 4000-6500 yards 4 tiems a week because we have two meets a week... but usually we swim 6 times a week... (amount depends on the day because we swim in the morning 3 times a week so that adds on a couple thousand.)
for workout wise.. we do alot of everything.. 50s 25 sprints 200s specialties and ims... and i aslo lift weights two times a week but its a very light amount of weights.. like 20-30 mintues a time
see my problem A.K is that I think, personally, that i do worse when i get rest? its weird... one week i missed a couple practices and we had a couple meets so i had little practice (but alot of rest..) got my worst times all season.. the next week we introduced morning practices and i had doubled my amount of yards and swam twice as much as the week before.. had two meets that week also and got my best times (even though i went into my events kinda sore from the days before...) so now with tapering coming up im afraid that.. like last year.. im gonna worsen my time due to not getting enough yards in?
any ideas?
What type of workouts do you do?
What are your events?
I swim 100 breaststroke scy and 100 freestyle scy
lately my workouts are about 4000-6500 yards 4 tiems a week because we have two meets a week... but usually we swim 6 times a week... (amount depends on the day because we swim in the morning 3 times a week so that adds on a couple thousand.)
for workout wise.. we do alot of everything.. 50s 25 sprints 200s specialties and ims... and i aslo lift weights two times a week but its a very light amount of weights.. like 20-30 mintues a time
see my problem A.K is that I think, personally, that i do worse when i get rest? its weird... one week i missed a couple practices and we had a couple meets so i had little practice (but alot of rest..) got my worst times all season.. the next week we introduced morning practices and i had doubled my amount of yards and swam twice as much as the week before.. had two meets that week also and got my best times (even though i went into my events kinda sore from the days before...) so now with tapering coming up im afraid that.. like last year.. im gonna worsen my time due to not getting enough yards in?
any ideas?
