Tapering and Peaking

This excerpt from Developing Endurance goes over tapering and peaking in aerobic training for competition.

Tapering and Peaking: Why and How • Stronger by Science

An appropriately timed taper can increase performance by 2-5% (Le Meur 2012) due to a reduction in accumulated fatigue (Busso 1994), which allows proper ...

How To Design a Taper and Peaking Phase For Sports Performance

A taper usually involves a structured reduction in training load to remove acute and fatigue in order to potentiate increases in physiological and ...

Tapering and Peaking For Strength and Conditioning - Vitruve

Tapering and peaking is a progressive planned reduction in the training intensity, volume, and frequency to promote strength and power boost.

Tapering and Peaking Maximal Strength for Powerlifting Performance

The purpose of this study was to review the literature on tapering and training cessation practices relative to peaking powerlifting performance.

How to Peak and Taper the Right Way for Mountaineers

How to Structure Your Taper Period Workouts · Week 1: Decrease your weekly training volume to about 50 percent of your peak weekly volume.

Peaking: the art of planning and tapering - Sports Performance Bulletin

Peaking is all about manipulating your training program, so that you can be in the best possible physical condition for an important event.

Tapering and Peaking Maximal Strength for Powerlifting Performance

Prior to major competitions, athletes often use a peaking protocol such as tapering or training cessation to improve performance.

Periodisation & Peaking 3: Peaking For Competition - TORQ Ltd

The purpose of tapering is to promote a period of supercompensation or 'peak in form' on the day(s) of a big competition or event. The key is to ...

The Jumps Roundtable #2: Tapering and Peaking - SimpliFaster

We will publish one question from the “Jumps Roundtable Edition #2” per day over the next six days. This third installment is on tapering and peaking ...

Tapering & Peaking for Performance | How to Peak When it Counts

This presentation will cover how to reach peak performance when it counts. ONLINE COACHING & CONSULTING ...

Peaking and Tapering in Sport - An Athletically Inspired Educational ...

As an important competition draws near, having your training sessions specifically build up in intensity is referred to as peaking. Tapering, on ...

Tapering and Peaking for Cyclists: Be Ready for Race Day

What is Tapering? Tapering helps you achieve a fitness peak through reduced training volume in the weeks immediately before your event. Within two weeks of the ...

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance - Iñigo Mujika

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance is a powerful tool for athletes, coaches and sports scientists to approach the important period of tapering a ...

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance PDF - Human Kinetics

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance offers in-depth discussion of the science, strategy, and program design of the tapering phase of training.

Tapering and Peaking - YouTube

Should high school athletes try and stay in peak physical condition all year long? Find out the answer in this week's Game Changers Pop ...

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance by Mujika | eBook

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance offers tactics for individual endurance sports, power and sprint events, and precision sports, allowing for sport- ...

Tapering and Peaking for Optimal Performance in Team Sports

In this session from the NSCA's 2017 National Conference, Iñigo Mujika explains the scientific basis of tapering and peaking in sports, and the effects of ...

The Fundamentals of Tapering and Peaking for Performance

This presentation will cover what tapering and peaking is, why it is useful for athletes and how to implement it in a program.

Tapering and Peaking Review - Joe Friel

In this post from 2009 you will find an explanation of the three elements of race preparedness – fitness, fatigue and form.