Reducing training volume by 50% during a taper, while maintaining intensity and frequency, preserves VO2 max, muscle oxidative metabolism enzymes, and mitochondrial function over three weeks.

“well what happened was they end up hitting about a 50% reduction because what they did is they took out what we call the junk volume so they kept their race tempos high intensity stuff in there um they kept the recovery stuff and that Medium Pace they just basically reduced Now they were terrified as any endurance Runner or endurance athlete or participant would understand um when you take volume away they tend to get very nervous and so they didn't like that um but as a result of that what we saw is their V2 Max despite the fact that they covered half the mileage their V2 Max did not go down in 3 weeks of reduced taper your Fitness is in is extremely stable and in fact once we actually looked at their data the enzymes in their muscle were responsible for oxidative metabolism were maintained and so you don't have to worry about losing uh Again Fitness or we're talking about overall performance or even um oxygen capacity mitochondrial function Etc that was all preserved”