Tapering for Swimmers: You Can’t Out-Taper Poor Recovery

By Olivier Poirier-Leroy on SwimSwam
Tapering for swimmers is often thought of as a giant eraser.
You work hard over months and months, building up lots of fatigue, soreness, and training load.
And then taper takes a big eraser to all the tiredness, revealing the performance you’ve worked hard to create.
But tapering isn’t a switch.
And in the same way that you have to “earn” a taper with lots of hard work, the way you take care of yourself before tapering can matter just