During taper, what things are you doing outside of the water to ensure peak performance?

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Carson Foster · Answer

During tapers. Something that I'm always making sure I'm doing is drinking a ton of water. I'm pretty bad about drinking water, but normally for me, like, carrying around like one of those big water bottles and making sure I'm finishing it, like one of those gallon ones that really helps me. So, I'll do that on paper. And then I always, once I get on the taper like set up bedtime for myself, making sure I'm not going to bed any later than that. So It's typically like 9:30 and just trying to keep myself on ice and sticking to that. So, sleep and water. The two things I really hone in on

Kim Brackin · Answer

During taper, what things are you doing outside of the water to ensure peak performance? Well, hopefully, you're getting a lot of rest, you're going to bed at a reasonable hour, maybe you don't have as many morning workouts, you get to sleep a little bit later. You are rolling, you are stretching, you're maybe getting massage, you're cupping, your fueling yourself really, really well, you are visualizing an amazing performance. And when you visualize, if something goes wrong in that performance, you reel it back and you do it over again. And you figure out how to perform your perfect race, right? You are surrounding yourself with positive people. You're communicating with your coach about how you feel. You have a plan of how you're going to execute your race-- split wise, how you're going to take things out, breathing patterns, things like that. You're thinking about all these things so that when it comes to race day, your body is ready, you know how to stand behind that block proud and confident, and you have your plan in place.

Felipe Lima · Answer

I think the first thing is be confident, like the training you did in the past will help you right now. And then, so trust the process, trust in your coach, eat well, go early to the bed, wake up early, eat well-- like good food-- don't eat too much. Don't get nervous right now because you made everything you have to do. And, yeah, that's it. And then having fun because the competition is to having fun. You have trained a lot. You go there to achieve your goals.

Joshua Watson · Answer

So, during type of, what things are you doing? Outside of the water to ensure Peak Performance? We'll look, obviously your body's going to go through a like a number of adaptations over taper. So yes, you need to remember, I remember what I used to start type of the first couple of weeks I used to sleep, so much, you know, my body was clearly going through an adaptation. So you need to keep routine. You need to obviously listen to your body because there's going to be some pretty drastic changes and, and ups and downs and swings that you're going to go through. Through. But if I had my time over again, I'd do a whole lot more work on my mental state and my emotional state. And I would just focus on keeping my mind. Present in the moment. We're, to be honest, there's not a lot of thinking that goes on, well, as far as futuristic thinking, that's what you're trying to avoid. You know, you've put a block of work in. You've got this key date that you have to perform. It's just so easy to allow your thoughts together. Way out there in the future and typically, what we do when we do that is, is we build a scenario, a that's false okay, but it's built off our past our history, okay? And you got to be really, really careful of what's in your past, and, and that's why I my suggestion is to not even allow your mind to go out. Any any, I mean, you can literally walk into the pool, I'll give you a story. So I remember the 98, Commonwealth Games. We did a test set, five days out from the competition. Competition 52, hundreds to send the last two. Were to 22 and 221 arousal in a national swimmer at that point five days later. I went 2014. Okay. And and trust me, I was, I was panicked. My coach was said this, you'll be fine. You'll be fine and five days. I need 20 seconds in five days. That's the sort of stuff that can happen in taper. So you just need to you just need to appreciate and respect the work that you've done. You need to know that, you're worth, whatever result that it is that you're chasing. But then just say, just keep everything centered in the present and if you do that you know, it'll be a far more pleasurable experience and you're far more likely to get the result that you want and deserve.

Lars Jorgensen · Answer

During taper. What are some of the things that you can do outside of the water to ensure Peak Performance? I think during the taper phase. Number one is, I hope you've done all the work necessary for you to be successful. First and foremost, I think that's the most important thing. So, but then, during the taper is, you got to hydrate a little bit more than normal. Hydration is always important, but I would make sure you really hydrate often during the taper phase. Make sure you get plenty of rest. You probably need to reduce your calories that you're consuming because you're not in the water as much or not working as hard. So, really pay attention to your nutrition. I think that needs to be like up up a level more than it, perhaps it is in season. Get plenty of rest, try to sleep eight hours a night if possible, I think if you do those things you're taper and you've done the work, your taper will make you awesome.

Ray Looze · Answer

I think what's important during taper is getting more sleep than ever before. So you refreshed also being careful to avoid foods that make you sore or that kind of cause inflammation in your body. And I also like breath control exercises once a day, whether they're in the water or outside of the water.

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During taper, what things are you doing outside of the water to ensure peak performance?

Carson Foster

Carson Foster

Kim Brackin

Felipe Lima

Joshua Watson

Lars Jorgensen

Ray Looze