– A taper is basically a period of reduced intensity and volume leading up to a competition. So, similar to like a deload, a deload is a time when you can start to recover. Your taper is that time where you recover to lead you into then high performance in an event. Because if you are going into an event super over-trained, your performance is going to be low. So, there’s not a lot that you can do from a training point of view in that week of the competition. You’re probably not going to improve your max deadlift, you’re probably not going to improve your 500 metre row in the week leading up to the comp. But you can cram in some practise. As you guys have seen from what we’ve done, in particular the strongman stuff there, when you first lifted up that yolk, it felt super heavy and awkward. And then you ended up doing 60 kilos more, and if anything, it felt easier. So you can develop practise, you can develop skill in a short amount of time. So if the events for a workout are pre-released, you can practise some of the skills. And you guys who are competing next weekend, will know that there’s some different stuff in there that I have programmed, and once you start to practise it, you pick up that skill pretty quickly. This is like cramming for an exam. Yeah? You can’t really cram advanced calculus, but maybe you can work on learning the capital cities. Okay, this is skill-based stuff. It’s not super in-depth, doesn’t take a long time to develop. Cram some of that stuff in.
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