Why you should taper before a competition: Decrease in training volume improves performance

🏋🏻‍♂️ It is Open week 🙌

💦 To get ready, or at least ‘as ready as possible’, tapering down training volume now might be a good strategy to get in your top shape for the coming weeks.

🤔 Why? Tapering, or decreasing training volume/and or intensity in the week(s) before a competition, has been shown to improve subsequent performance by 2-5%. Indeed, in contrary to what many believe, you don’t lose fitness in 1-2 weeks. By turning down training a week the athlete will reduce accumulated fatigue and feel fresh on day 1 of the competition.

👉 There are many ways to taper (linear, stepwise or exponential) and you’ll have to figure out what works best for you. For instance, a games athlete we know cranks-up the intensity the week(s) before the games, but decreases the volume drastically. ‘You gotta keep the engine running’.

❓Have you ever tapered towards a competition and want to share how it went?

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