As I drove to the gym this morning, angry about the bones I picked before I left, I started thinking about the RPE’s for today’s training. In full rebellion mode now, I decided I would no longer use RTS’ RPE scale, but make my own. After all, why are there 10 numbers in the RPE …
Finding the Eight
I'm making a real effort to discipline myself and use the Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) properly. Due mostly to being mentally lazy, I tend to take every set to a 9 or maybe even a 9.5 RPE. I don't think I'm being too hard on myself when I say it's laziness because when you're …
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