If you’ve ever thought to yourself during a workout, wow this is super challenging, a 10 out of 10 for sure, you’ve actually been using RPE (rate of perceived exertion) to measure your exercise ...

Fitness intensity can be one of the most subjective areas of working out. From “rate of perceived exertion” (or RPE) to the famous “runner’s high” or getting “in the zone,” these metrics can, at best, ...

As strength training has evolved, many lifters have moved away from rigid percentage-based programs toward systems that adjust effort based on how workouts actually feel. Two of the most common tools ...

Many of us probably don’t work as hard as we could, but it’s not always easy to tell. The RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) scale helps with that. After all, sometimes fitness isn’t just about how much ...

In a follow-up to my last column (“Differing perceptions of training intensity,” (Aug. 3), I’d like to give readers some tools to address the concept of training to proper intensity in order to ...

It sounds counterintuitive, but working out as hard as you can every time you exercise is, for most people, not actually the way to get the results you want. That’s because while high-intensity ...

Institute of Sport & Exercise Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia Correspondence to Dr A M Edwards, Institute of Sport & Exercise Science, James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, ...

1 Department of Sports, School of Physical Education and Sports, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 2 School of Physical Education, Catholic University of Brasilia, São Paulo, Brazil 3 ...