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David Hagerty on Instagram: "People often make the case that it’s dangerous to do heavy sets of 1-5 reps. This overlooks the fact that you can utilize Rating of perceived exertion and reps in reserve to conservatively while still challenging hit those reps ranges. A lot of context and nuance often gets left out of these relatively black and white statements about what people should or shouldn’t be doing in the gym. Move past that and learn to understand the grey and you’ll make more progress, ha

Connor Hudson | Personal Trainer | BSc | Herts/Beds on Instagram: "Connor’s Whiteboard Series - Episode 1: RPE (Rating of Perceived Exertion). A subjective method of judging how difficult the workload you’re performing is. A lot of people judge RPE differently (hence why it is so subjective) but this is my personal perspective of it. It’s sometimes used in comparison with Reps in Reserve (e.g. RPE8 as the equivalent of 2 reps in reserve) but I feel a lot of people struggle to judge accurately ho

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Dave Lipson on Instagram: "With muscle hypertrophy, it is much more appropriate to use the rate of perceived exertion as a gauge for training intensity versus a percentage of a one rep max. The rate of perceived exertion is a subjective measurement: when do you reach your threshold where the movement starts breaking down or you can no longer move it properly? And how hard does the exercise feel to you in terms of your pain threshold and psychological tolerance? This varies person to person. Some