This is Your Quick Training Tip, a chance to learn how to work smarter in just a few moments so you can get right to your workout. Tracking your heart rate while exercising is an efficient way to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Rate of Perceived Exertion Scale (RPE) is used to measure the intensity of your exercise. Our scale runs from 1 – 10 to show varying levels of effort, with the numbers relating to how easy or ...

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 ...