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Rating of Perceived Exertion - RPE 2022-04-12
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Ideally you would measure exercise intensity by monitoring your
heart rate. However, not everyone has a heart rate monitor readily
available. You could measure it by stopping and taking your pulse
at regular intervals...But, there is an alternative that works
remarkably well: the Rating of Perceived Exertion, or RPE, also
known as the Borg scale.
A Rating of Perceived Exertion is perhaps the most basic way to
express the intensity you are experiencing during an exercise, and
yet for all its simplicity, it has great value.
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| Level | Description | Breating |
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| RPE 1 | extremely easy | restful breathing, can sing |
| RPE 2 | very easy | can talk in complete sentences |
| RPE 3 | easy | can talk in broken sentences |
| RPE 4 | moderate | talking first becomes difficult |
| RPE 5 | somewhat hard | heavy breathing begins |
| RPE 6 | moderately hard | deep breaths, talking is avoided |
| RPE 7 | hard | deep and forceful breathing |
| RPE 8 | very hard | labored breathing, can't talk |
| RPE 9 | very, very hard | very labored breathing |
| RPE 10 | extremely hard | gasping for air |
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