Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is a powerful tool for personalizing your workouts, especially in strength training. By using RPE or its counterpart, Reps in Reserve (RIR), you can match your training intensity to your current fitness level and goals, ensuring optimal progress without overloading your body. RPE is a subjective measure ranging from 1 to 10, reflecting how challenging a set feels. For instance, an RPE of 10 means maximal effort, while an RPE of 7 indicates you could perform 3 mor

Use this system to figure out race pace with the following rate of perceived exertion guidelines: Sprint: 8-9/10 Olympic: 8/10 70.3: 7/10 Ironman: 6/10 Within a few months you can develop such body awareness that you can dial in your best possible race pace given any different circumstance that happens (good or bad) on race day. | Triathlon Taren

•• UNDERSTANDING THE RPE SCALE •• WHAT IS RPE? RPE stands for the Rate of Perceived Exertion and at SOS our trainers use the RPE Scale as a useful tool to assess how hard clients feel they are working. (Original scale and Modified scale) The RPE Scale was devised by Gunner Borg in 1982 and originally began as a scale of 6-20. However, after the RPE Scale was introduced in 1982, some people felt that using a 6-20 scale was not intuitive. As a result, the Modified Borg Scale was developed, using a