When considering the concept of taper we must differentiate between the age group swimmer whose body and biological systems are not fully developed and the senior swimmer with more mature and developed biological systems. When considering the biological, maturity and training differences between age group swimmers and senior swimmers we can conclude that different types of tapers would be necessary to optimize the performance of each group. Scientific research shows that reductions in training volume from 40-90% from pre-taper workloads to the conclusion of taper have been shown to be effective. Volume reductions refer to total volume of taper versus total volume of previous training block. Several studies examined higher intensity tapers versus lower intensity tapers and concluded that higher intensity tapers resulted in greater improvements in performance. Effective taper duration is very variable and a coach must consider all of the factors previously mentioned for each of their swimmers in order to optimize the taper and have great performances. read more
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