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 ...

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 ...

I was recently reading a French philosophy paper about fitness trackers (as one does) that compared the experience of the modern-day athlete to that of a gamer. With a heavy nod to Sartre, the authors ...

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 ...

Many exercise physiologists believe that the intensity of an activity is more important than how long you exercise or how many times you repeat an exercise. But gauging exercise intensity can be ...

The RPE scale is measured from 1 to 10: 10 represents maximum effort, and 1 indicates minimal or no effort. For context, a 10 would feel like pushing yourself to the limit during a deadlift, leaving ...