Episode 79: Our Taper Protocol & Cody’s Leadville “Compare & Contrast”
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When your BIG fitness is built your fatigue is high! You may be fit, but you’re not yet ready to race at your best. How do you get from here to a peak performance at your A-race?
The art of Tapering… Effectively trimming your training load, duration & intensity doses, you can bring your fatigue levels (ATL) down and readiness level (TSB) up while minimizing loss in fitness (CTL). This combination puts us in prime position for a peak performance!
In this episode we share exactly how we do this within our taper period and share our FOUR highly successful and proven Race Prep workouts that take your peak fitness to a peak performance on race day. This exact progression of Tapering can be found within our new for 2022 v4.0 Race Prep Training Plan downloadable from the Training Peaks Plan Store:
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THEN… we take a deep, deep, deep dive into coach Cody’s 2022 Leadville preparation (or lack there of?), to compare and contrast his “perfect preparation” in 2021 vs. this year’s “sub-optimal” preparation. Due to work & life commitments, Cody’s training has suffered a bit… maybe that sounds all too familiar to you? “Life Happens”, as they say, and this year Cody is going to use this as an opportunity to find out exactly how much a training deficit can/does effect one’s performance on race day.
If you’re into training numbers, you’ll love this as we dig into all training metrics to see exactly how far behind his optimal training from last season he actually is. Then we make some estimations on how much this decreased prep will effect his day at Leadville on August 13th. We hope you find this interesting and perhaps a bit motivating as you balance life, work, training and family as you pursue your own goals.
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