Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walk into almost any gym, and you’ll notice a familiar pattern across the weight room. Some lifters treat every set like a max ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Walk into almost any gym, and you’ll notice a familiar pattern across the weight room. Some lifters treat every set like a max attempt, while others hold back and then wonder why progress slows down.