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“The wrong way to do a taper. I see this so often is it's to reduce the training load by reducing the intensity. All that happens here is you get an athlete who ends up coming into their target event stale and they're not ready to perform. You need to loiten the training load during the week but also maintain that intensity because that's going to ensure he or she is race ready.”
“For most cycling events I would say that a 7-14 day tapering period is enough. Anything longer, it's too much fitness loss to be worth the gain in freshness.”
“Form is where fitness meets freshness. There's no point in being super fit, without being fresh. There's no point in being super fresh, without being fit. The intersection, it's called form. And that's when we knock down and have those super good performances.”
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