What question did this study set out to answer?

To assess the effects of altering specific tapering components—including training volume, intensity, frequency, pattern, and duration—on competitive athletic performance.

August 1, 2007Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Effects of Tapering on Performance

View Full Paper

Ask AI

Bookmark

Authors

LBLaurent BosquetUniversité de Poitiers JMJonathan MontpetitUniversité de Montréal DADenis ArvisaisUniversité de Montréal

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Meta-analysis reveals optimal performance gains from a two-week exponential volume reduction in competitive athletes, highlighting practical guidelines for pre-competition preparation.

Key Points

To assess the effects of altering specific tapering components—including training volume, intensity, frequency, pattern, and duration—on competitive athletic performance.
Searched six databases to identify studies examining tapering interventions with explicit procedures for decreasing training load alongside competition or field-based criterion performance metrics in competitive athletes.
Included 27 of 182 potential studies and calculated pre- to post-taper standardized mean differences in performance, weighted by within-group heterogeneity.
A 2-week tapering duration yielded the greatest performance improvement (overall effect = 0.59 ± 0.33, P < 0.001).
An exponential decrease in training volume of 41–60% produced the largest performance gains (overall effect = 0.72 ± 0.36, P < 0.001).
Maintaining training intensity (overall effect = 0.33 ± 0.14, P < 0.001) and training frequency (overall effect = 0.35 ± 0.17, P < 0.001) without modification supported optimal outcomes.

Cite This Study

Bosquet et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69fc2d8047ae49e99278d0df https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0b013e31806010e0

View Full Paper

Ask AI

Bookmark

Implication

Meta-analysis reveals optimal performance gains from a two-week exponential volume reduction in competitive athletes, highlighting practical guidelines for pre-competition preparation.

Effects of Tapering on Performance

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Key Points

Cite This Study

Effects of Tapering on Performance

Discussion

Member takes

Implication

Key Points

Cite This Study

Also Consider

Also Consider