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 ...

Achieving the ideal training intensity can be challenging. If you're breezing through all your sets, you might not be maximising your muscle gain potential. However, pushing yourself too hard towards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Okay, so you’ve gotten a few weeks of strength training under your belt and you’ve documented your one-rep-max for those big barbell lifts. To progress toward the next PR, you’ll typically lift a ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the test-retest reliability (repeatability) of Borg's 6-20 rating of perceived exertion (RPE) scale using a more appropriate statistical technique than has been employed in ...

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 ...

Rate of perceived exertion (RPE) is a way to measure the level of exertion a person feels during physical activity. RPE is a useful tool that helps people manage the intensity of their physical ...