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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Getty/Ben Welsh If you’ve never heard of RPE before, it simply stands for Rate of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.