Daily Archives: August 1, 2018

Should you train by Heart Rate or Rate of Perceived Exertion

People tend to become passionate one way or the other, either believing that you should always train to heart rate or always train to R.P.E. Neither camp is right! To believe one way is the right and only way is to only look at the positives provided by one style of training and compare this…

Why you need to understand your HR and RPE.

Part 1 of 2   There has been a lot of debate recently over weather you should train by Heart Rate or Rate of Perceived Exertion (R.P.E.). Before we look at this argument we first need to ensure that we understand that the purpose of each method is to develop a range of intensity ‘zones’…