Built-in tapers in training programs are important, either implemented reactively or systematically.

“what you may think is like wow I guess tapering is anabolic but that's probably not what happened what realistically probably happened was their volume of training was actually causing their fibers to be reduced in size and then once we remove that fatigue they just recovered back to normal so that's a good example of what I'm talking about once you remove the fatigue you can actually see enhancements and performance not because you're necessarily getting better but because you're removing the simul light light suppressing you”

“first and foremost is actually a taper so the the first step I think of if someone is training very very hard and you're not seeing any results and we want to think about supplementation before I get there I want to think about taper and D Lo if you're actually training hard and sleep and everything else is taken care of so just without going too far into taper some general General parameters there um you want to think about about a 50% reduction in training volume over the course of about a week for every eight weeks of training super super rough right so if you've been training hard for three months for something you might want to taper for two weeks something like that right it's sort of a rough estimate”

“um you want to think about about a 50% reduction in training volume over the course of about a week for every eight weeks of training super super rough right so if you've been training hard for three months for something you might want to taper for two weeks something like that right it's sort of a rough estimate that taper you actually don't need to reduce intensity because intensity is not the driver fatigue it tends to be volume so as long as your volume is reduced by 50% you can maintain intensity you can maintain in fact I generally would recommend maintaining frequency so if you're used to working out four days a week keep it four days a week you can go down a little bit in frequency but if you go down too much in frequency you actually tend to feel super lethargic so I wouldn't do that if you do those things correctly you can typically see somewhere between like a 3 to 8% Improvement of performance um within a matter of days so so it's important to do that”

“again I think having builtin tapers is really important and whether you do them responsively in terms of okay this this person has been getting like week to week we've seen he's adding five pounds oh this week we had a dip in performance now maybe we reactively do a taper that's possible or whether you build in systematically to try and get ahead of that curve either way can work”