Resting/maintenance before an event?

I've only ever done this for races, but most tapers start around 2 weeks out

and no, you don't stop, you just scale back your workouts

are you following any type of training program?

it would help if we knew what type of event you were doing as well

for instance, a taper for a marathon will be much different than say, a 5k

There will be other people with opinions that should supercede mine, I haven't really done a lot of looking into this topic. From everything I've watched online and learned from CrossFit is that you don't stop training, but you should have a peak week two weeks or so before the event where you max out and ensure you're ready to go, then you taper your training intensity back some to recover and prevent injury. Not a ton, but enough that you aren't beating yourself up. Day before the event just have an active recovery day. 20-30 minutes of light movement - in my CrossFit gym we'll do an 'around the world' circuit where we rotate 4-5 movements for 1 minute at a time and do that for 20 minutes.. slow pace, just get your blood flowing and heart rate up and body warmed. Then stretch. We do a ROMWOD. My body usually feels pretty great and ready to go the day after that.

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If Brooks Keopka can throw 225 around a million times and win back to back US Opens I think you'll be alright continuing your plan as normal.

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Well, when I have the same workout plan and am as jacked as Brooks Keopka, I'll jack 225 before rounds too.

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Well, when I have the same workout plan and am as jacked as Brooks Keopka, I'll jack 225 before rounds too.

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The point is you don't have to change anything. I've workedout of a Friday and played 36 the next day and 18 the day after that as long as you take 10 extra minutes to stretch out you'll be fine.

Resting for a huge and intense calorie expenditure is different than resting for golf, you aren't going to get CNS fatigue playing golf b

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This is what I was looking for.

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think of it this way:

2 weeks out, you should be doing 90-95% effort of your goal

then the next week, taper back to around 60-70%

then week of, taper back to 30-40%

For golf, I wouldn't change much.

Golf, the big physical demand is baseline fitness to make it around the course and explosiveness in a swing. That pales in comparison to powerlifting, oly lifting, football, etc.

Resting will lower your fitness level a bit. The greater recovery will enhance your ability to express that fitness. The gap isn't that great vs the demands of golf.

Most of all, golf is heavily skill based. The big downside I see is any big positive or negative physical change can mess with your timing and skill level. For skill, you want to practice like you play, and you probably practice with a bit of fatigue.

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if you’re doing CrossFit and getting ready for a golf tourney

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I'm personally not doing crossfit. I did want to open a broad conversation about pre-event workouts.

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Scale back volume maintain intensity. That's what I do for cycling

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Feel guilty talking about this as I'm so far off the wagon at this point it's depressing, but above is what I've always done.

Really not much need to taper for something like a 10k. Maybe start taking it easy 4 days out, rest day 2 days out, some short stuff day before with some pick ups, then race.

For something like a half ironman or above, 2 weeks out you are spending the week just reducing total volume. Y0u might still have a big workout in there, but the total hours for that week are going down significantly (~80%). Then you really start cutting time the week of, but probably only 1 real day of complete rest 2 days out from the race. Still keep some quicker workouts going to keep the body used to moving fast. If not you'll feel sluggish day of the race. Day before a race is like 20 minutes in the pool, 15 minute job with some 45 second quick pick ups, 20 minutes on the bike to make sure everything is in working order and wake the legs up.