Since there is no one-size-fits-all approach to exercise, it helps to have a personalized rating system that allows you to keep track of your own workout. After all, a casual jog for one person might ...

While there are plenty of fancy gadgets you can use to track your effort in the gym or on a run, there’s one core metric that uses no tech at all: the rate of perceived exertion. RPE in the most basic ...

Within strength training, it is common practice to lift weights at a prescribed load based on one’s repetition maximum (1RM). This is highly effective, as loads directly correspond with the number of ...

RPE or Rate of Perceived Exertion has finally gained popularity as Garmin and other watches made it part of saving each ...

Running is full of acronyms and if you’ve started getting serious with your training, you’ll have come across a plethora of terms. Amongst HRV, HIIT and VO2 max, you might have encountered RPE or, to ...

We all know how important exercise is to our overall health. While putting in the time to exercise is important, you also need to monitor how hard you’re working. One way to track your effort is with ...

1 Department of Sports, School of Physical Education and Sport, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2 MRC/UCT Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Department of Human Biology ...

RPE, a.k.a. your Rate of Perceived Exertion, may not be a metric you've used to track your workouts thus far, but experts say it may well be more useful than using a fitness watch. In short, the RPE ...

Correspondence to: Dr Grant, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, 64 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8 LT, Scotland, UK; S.Grant{at}bio.gla.ac.uk Objectives: To compare the ...

Imagine this scenario: You are running one of your favorite trails, enjoying great weather and blue skies. A favorite high-energy song comes on and you find yourself ignoring the numbers on your watch ...

Fitness progress is all about intensity. You'll only get faster if you practice running faster, and you'll only get stronger if you keep adding more weight. It's the basic rule of progressive overload ...