Wondering how you guys would handle a short sprinter who had to taper twice in a short time period; for example lets say he has his conferenece meet april 18 then nationals may 9 would it be possible to do taper for conference then train for another 2weeks (med-hard) and taper again for nationals?
How many races in the conference meet? Where does he have the best shot at success?
Conference meet 100 prelims and finals. Both meets should be pretty good but if i had to pick one i would say conference.
If the weather is good before the conf, I’d try the 10 day taper into the conference meet as outlined in CFTS or the Taper DVD. Now the question is how to bridge the gap to the nats.
Since the conf demand is fairly low, you won’t need too much recovery before you can resume at least sub max sprints. Assuming you restart speedwork on the 22nd, you’d have time for a max of 8 speed sessions till the meet or 4 speed sessions till you’d repeat a 10 day taper.
Who wants to start?
1:Would you repeat the 10 day taper?
2:Since the second buildup is so short and there are only 2 races (no relay?), do you need a ten day taper again?
3:What session(s) would you start with first to allow for max recovery from the conf?
What about the weights?
CF what if he perform a mini taper for conference then a 10 day taper similar to was is outline in cfts. I really dont like the idea of repeating two 10day tpaers in such a short time period.
That’s one possibility. Another might be to go with the first taper and then turn the conf period into a higher stimulus- ie do 2 x 200 SE 2 days after the meet and then lower the HI stress for two sessions and go from there.
Any other suggestions?
I’m kinda lost, what do you mean first taper and then turn the conf period into a higher stimulus?
What if the meets where on these days:
1: Sat
2 Sat
3: Fri
4: Wed
5: off week
6: Sat -Tune up meet
7: Thur - National meet
I would do a shorter taper for the 18th of April.
Go back to speed on the 22nd (2-3x150@90%, easy, med-long recovery 15-20’).
Do five speed sessions between the 22-30th (se-t-sp-t alternation).
Four maintenance weight sessions between the 22nd and 28th.
Do the “extreme load session” on the 30th and proceed to a 9 day taper.
What do you think Charlie?
Decisions decisions!
Is it possible to do two 10 day tapers in 4 weeks?
If you do it first, could make it difficult to do again.
A short taper followed by a longer taper (eg 7 days then 10 days with normal between) and then if you do this you have 10 days between last comp and start of 10 day taper…
A long taper followed by shorter taper (eg 10 and 7) gives you 13 days between comp and start of taper.
What is the athletes base like?
Remember though, the conf is your best shot and the longer the training period beforehand, the longer a taper you may need.
It’s possible to do it that way. what we’re missing here is the time standard of the athlete. the lower the performance standard the less taper we need. Can we get the 100m times here?
Yeah forgot about that, I was just thinking of ideas.
As you say
what we’re missing here is the time standard of the athlete. the lower the performance standard the less taper we need. Can we get the 100m times here?
We don’t have details of athlete.
are you asking for the athlete pr or the time he need to hit for nationals?
There looking for the pr of the athlete or fastest time theyve run this year.
Also a good question would how long has the athlete been training consistantly this year. If hes only been training for 4 weeks, what kind of benefit would he get from a 10 day taper?
He havent race yet.
How is he going to be ready then?
What do you mean, he will have 7 meets to get ready once we get going.
7 meets from now until April 18 while also allowing time for a taper seems a bit packed, doesn’t it?
To give us a better idea, outline the meet dates and put in bold the important meets that the athlete wants to do his best. Also even though he hasnt run, im sure youve had a clock on him and know the times hes running so give us a general idea mid 10’s, 11’s, mid 11’s or whatever