Before major competitions - whether regional, national, or world championships or just you maxing out at the gym - lifters use tapering to achieve peak performance on a given day. Unfortunately, most tapering literature has focused on endurance sports, and the current literature on tapering and peaking maximal strength is scarce. Luckily, a group of researchers has taken it upon themselves to fill the literature gap; thus, one of them, Dr. Kyle Travis, is here to provide us with some insight! 

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Dr. Kyle Travis is a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the University of Florida. His current research foci consist of skeletal muscle biology, atrophy prevention, aging, neuromuscular junction morphology, gene expression, and gene manipulation.

Kyle's ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kyle-Travis

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