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 ...

Within strength training, it is common practice to lift weights at a prescribed load based on one’s repetition maximum (1RM). This is highly effective, as loads directly correspond with the number of ...

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 ...

Many of us probably don’t work as hard as we could, but it’s not always easy to tell. The RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) scale helps with that. After all, sometimes fitness isn’t just about how much ...

Correspondence to: Dr Grant, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, 64 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8 LT, Scotland, UK; S.Grant{at}bio.gla.ac.uk Objectives: To compare the ...

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 ...

To lose weight, you should be ramping up your intensity when you exercise, according to fitness experts, but how do you know that you're exercising hard enough? If you take a subjective measure of ...