Learn how to adjust your training intensity in real-time so you can stay consistent on the days when work, stress, and life get in the way.

As strength training has evolved, many lifters have moved away from rigid percentage-based programs toward systems that ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fitness intensity can be one of the most subjective areas of working out. From “rate of perceived exertion” (or RPE) to the famous “runner’s high” or getting “in the zone,” these metrics can, at best, ...

Running is full of acronyms and if you’ve started getting serious with your training, you’ll have come across a plethora of terms. Amongst HRV, HIIT and VO2 max, you might have encountered RPE or, to ...

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.