# How a World Record Setter Trains, Tapers, And Thrives In Masters Swimming: Jeff Commings, ENCORE EP 291

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Podcast: [Champions Mojo for Masters Swimmers](https://stenobird.com/podcast/champions-mojo-for-masters-swimmers-181640)
Published: 2025-10-30T11:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 3088

## Resource

One of our very favorite episodes on how to train, taper, and thrive in Masters Swimming. In this encore show we sat down with world record masters swimmer and veteran swim journalist Jeff Cummings to map out a smarter path to speed: focused training, practical tapering, honest recovery, and habits you can sustain with a full-time job and a full life. Jeff opens up about training alone and still finding intensity, the “exercise sets” that harden race finish, and why four quality days plus one...

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