Explore the evidence behind training decisions.
Explore extracted anchor reviews, identified reference books, mapped claims and known gaps—without treating found as reviewed.
This Atlas separates a 1,983-record project-local candidate index from a 112-node scoped evidence map. Neither is a completed systematic review, and date membership is not comprehensive search coverage.
No raw athlete data are included. This atlas does not establish that SportPlan is superior, effective or safe.
What the evidence behind your plan covers
The research base is public, and so are its limits.
- Review quality
- 94 of 466 review full texts — 20.2% — were rated moderate or high on AMSTAR-2.
- Databases searched
- SPORTDiscus and five other licensed databases were not searched: we hold no entitlement to them.
- Language and sources
- English-language abstracts only. Grey literature was not searched.
- Depth of screening
- 1,231 of 2,578 review-layer records were screened; 1,438 of 88,441 primary-layer candidates were screened for taper and periodization. This is not exhaustive.
- Adherence
- Adherence is under-retrieved and is the weakest domain in the corpus.
- What this does not show
- This corpus does not establish that SportPlan works, is better than the alternatives, is safe, or reduces injury. That takes a prospective study.
Project-local rapid synthesis
Rapid-synthesis candidate corpus
1983 indexed records: 858 review-layer records and 1125 targeted primary-layer candidates.
1,983
Indexed records
1,827
Dated inside the requested 20-year window
699
Full-text extraction documents
329 review-layer records were machine-classified as meta-analyses. Across all 858 review-layer records, 282 were machine-extracted as reporting at least one pooled numeric estimate; 268 met both labels.
SportPlan has performed no new pooled meta-analysis.
1827 records are dated inside 14 August 2006–14 August 2026 using PubMed journal/issue dates where needed; 155 are earlier and 1 year-only record remains unresolved. Screening and extraction were machine-assisted and project-local, not a completed systematic review. The 699 full-text extraction documents represent 698 unique publications; 697 link to this index.
30 of 1827 matching records shown
- Single muscle fiber adaptations with marathon training.
PMID 16614353 · adaptation, recovery, taper
2006 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- The effect of 8 days of training in tropical environment on performance in neutral climate in swimmers.
PMID 16761217 · adaptation, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Monitoring changes in performance, physiology, biochemistry, and psychology during overreaching and recovery in triathletes.
PMID 16835823 · adaptation, coaching, load, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Changes in selected biochemical, muscular strength, power, and endurance measures during deliberate overreaching and tapering in rugby league players.
PMID 16835824 · adaptation, load, recovery, strength, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Pharmacokinetics, safety, and effects on exercise performance of L-arginine alpha-ketoglutarate in trained adult men.
PMID 16928472 · adaptation, strength
2006 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Maximal mechanical power during a taper in elite swimmers.
PMID 16960526 · adaptation, taper
2006 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Heart rate variability, training variation and performance in elite swimmers.
PMID 17111320 · adaptation, load, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Monitoring for overreaching in rugby league players.
PMID 17219174 · adaptation, load, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Hormonal responses to a long duration exploration in a cave of 700 m depth.
PMID 17297626 · adaptation, load, recovery
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Imbalanced nutrition of top-level swimmers.
PMID 17436200 · load, periodization, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Nutrition strategies for the marathon : fuel for training and racing.
PMID 17465604 · adaptation, load, periodization, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Practical tests for monitoring performance, fatigue and recovery in triathletes.
PMID 17466593 · adaptation, coaching, load, recovery, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Effects of taper on swimming force and swimmer performance after an experimental ten-week training program.
PMID 17530932 · adaptation, load, periodization, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Evolution of physiological and haematological parameters with training load in elite male road cyclists: a longitudinal study.
PMID 17557057 · adaptation, coaching, load, periodization, recovery
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Influence of cold-water immersion on indices of muscle damage following prolonged intermittent shuttle running.
PMID 17654228 · injury, recovery
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Core stability training: applications to sports conditioning programs.
PMID 17685697 · injury, periodization, strength
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Detraining and tapering effects on hormonal responses and strength performance.
PMID 17685721 · adaptation, periodization, strength, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- The effects of ten weeks of resistance and combined plyometric/sprint training with the Meridian Elyte athletic shoe on muscular performance in women.
PMID 17685727 · adaptation, load, periodization, strength, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Performance of runners and swimmers after four weeks of intermittent hypobaric hypoxic exposure plus sea level training.
PMID 17690191 · adaptation, taper
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Application of altitude/hypoxic training by elite athletes.
PMID 17805095 · adaptation, coaching, load, periodization
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Ability of test measures to predict competitive performance in elite swimmers.
PMID 17852674 · adaptation, coaching, periodization, taper
2008 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- The effect of periodized resistance training on accelerative sprint performance.
PMID 17933193 · adaptation, periodization, strength
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Maximal power and performance during a swim taper.
PMID 17960506 · adaptation, load, taper
2008 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Exercise intensity and load during uphill cycling in professional 3-week races.
PMID 17978835 · coaching, load, periodization
2008 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Nutritional strategies to optimize training and racing in middle-distance athletes.
PMID 18049980 · adaptation, load, periodization, recovery
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Nutrition for distance events.
PMID 18049981 · adaptation, recovery
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Innovations in athletic preparation: role of substrate availability to modify training adaptation and performance.
PMID 18049989 · adaptation, coaching, recovery
2007 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- Factors affecting peak performance in the swimming competition of the Athens Olympic Games.
PMID 18212703 · coaching, periodization, taper
2008 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- The effects of combined ballistic and heavy resistance training on maximal lower- and upper-body strength in recreationally trained men.
PMID 18296966 · adaptation, periodization, strength
2008 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
- The effect of different rest intervals between sets on volume components and strength gains.
PMID 18296968 · adaptation, load, periodization, recovery, strength
2008 · Primary-layer candidates · Screened in as a candidate
112-node scoped evidence map
A separate explanatory network: 26 concept and decision nodes, 32 anchor reviews and 54 context-only books. It is not the 1,983-record candidate index.
112 sources shown
Evidence sources
Source details
Tapering and competition peaking
- Type
- Claims and decisions
- Year
- Not assigned
- Status
- Mapped
- Evidence role
- athlete component causal
- Topics
- taper
- Source
- body:taper
Documented relationships
SUPPORTS
A reduced-volume taper can improve selected performance outcomes
MAPPED TO
Wang et al. Effects of tapering on performance in endurance athletes
MAPPED TO
Vachon et al. Tapering in team sports