Kicking during taper?

Kick sets during taper is a definite no-no. Kick sets a week or 2 before taper is a definite yes.

Kick sets will always work your legs to some big limits and they will tire out your legs. Doing a kick set a week or 2 before taper can be a really good idea but during will really defeat the whole purpose of the rest of your workout being less intense than your kicking set.

I'd say if you want to focus on one swimming area at a time use a pull buoy occasionally and then switch off to the kickboard again. This will even out your body's workload and will get things more balanced that just doing a kick set since kickboards of course immobilize your arms while pull buoys immobilize your legs.

You should do TONS of kick sets BEFORE you taper, because a) kicking will make you faster b) you need the extra endurance to hold your fitness level throughout the taper. Kicking during the taper should not be strenuos, 25s or 50s will do. Don't kick to the point when lactic acid build up makes your legs feel noodley, but just before that. Hope I helped!

well you don't want to do strenuous kick sets, but short kick sets aren't bad. I just got off of taper, and almost every day we did some sort of kick set- something like 25s shooters with fins, 50s kick on :15 seconds rest, 200 moderate kick... something like that, that works your legs, but not to the point that you're working at a high level for a long duration/a lot of the practice.

Its ok to kick during taper but you should not kick hard for an extended period of time. And it's ok to kick short distances...25's 50's. If you kick HARD for over a 100 you should allow yourself plenty of time to recover before the next HARD effort.

(For example a fast 100 kick w/ around 2-3 minutes of recovery)

It also depends on what you swim...

Sprinters should obviously kick less than a distance swimmer etc...

super hard kick sets should be saved for camps. like 2 clicks a day just kick sets for camps. tapering just like any other part of you're taper - nice and fast, lots of rest, short bursts. wear your mom's old leggings too. i used to wear 2 pairs of stockings during my taper. looks goofy, works wonders.

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