The 5-minute rundown — everything a beginner needs
New to RPE and auto-regulated training? The whole system in five minutes, no articles required. What RPE is, how to rate a set, and exactly what to do in your next session.
A journal on auto-regulated training
The practical layer for auto-regulation: calculators that do the math, protocol guides that skip the theory dump, and honest reviews of what's worth buying. Written for intermediate lifters who've outgrown fixed percentages.
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New to RPE and auto-regulated training? The whole system in five minutes, no articles required. What RPE is, how to rate a set, and exactly what to do in your next session.
Rate sets accurately, pick targets by goal, and run your first properly auto-regulated session this week — including the three-week protocol that fixes almost everyone's ratings.
The endless debate, settled with a decision flowchart. Steel-mans both sides, then calls it — with the pragmatic hybrid most serious coaches actually use.
A complete 4-week block: exact structure, RPE progression, deload, and how to read the data your first block gives you. Written for intermediate lifters.
What the RPE chart actually tells you, how to read it in the gym, and the three situations where its numbers stop being reliable.
The difference, the exact conversion, and why the choice matters less than you think. Pick the one your brain answers faster.
Enter one recent set. Get your estimated 1RM, the exact weight for today's top set, and your backoff loads — plate-rounded, in lb or kg.