Monitoring Regeneration in Elite Swimmers.

Regeneration from the negative aspects of intense training is an important focus of the taper period prior to major competition. For nearly half a century, competitive swimmers have been attempting to optimise competitive performance by training close to the point of overtraining and then regenerating while the training load is tapered. Tapering is a regeneration technique during which the physiological and psychological stresses of daily training are gradually reduced prior to competition in order to maximise the difference between the positive and negative effects of training. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]