This confusing, awesome period of training has befuddled many a swimmer. While some swimmers feel great from the first day of taper, others take what feels like an eternity to reap the benefits.
The swimming taper is a time of confusion for many young swimmers. Now, standing between you and the big meet a couple meets away is the swimming taper period.įor a period of a few days, up to 3 weeks for our heavily muscled sprinting brethren, we fine tune our swimming while the volume of the work in the pool is cut drastically.
