Original title: Session-RPE Method for Training Load Monitoring: Validity, Ecological Usefulness, and Influencing Factors
RPE means rating how hard exercise feels. In the session-RPEA method that uses an athlete's effort rating for a whole training session to monitor training load. method, an athlete gives one effort rating for a whole training session. This review examined studies that tested whether those ratings reliably reflect training loadThe amount of demand that training places on an athlete.. It reports that the method worked across several sports and activities, among people of different ages and skill levels.
After a long day of chores, you might rate how tiring the whole day felt. That single score is easy to give, but it may not capture every part of the day equally well. In this paper, that whole-day rating stands for an athlete's rating of an entire training session, which is used to track how demanding the session was.
Coaches and athletes need ways to track training demands across different sports and age groups. This review reports that session-RPE can be used on its own for monitoring, though some recommend pairing it with heart-rate measures.
The review only included English-language studies from 2001 to 2016 in its assessment of validity and reliability. Its conclusion covers several sports and activities, but the abstract does not identify specific sports, explain which factors can alter RPE, or give details of the evidence for each setting.
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Session-RPE Method for Training Load Monitoring: Validity, Ecological Usefulness, and Influencing Factors — Monoem Haddad, Georgios Antoniou Stylianides, Léo Djaoui et al. — Frontiers in Neuroscience — doi:10.3389/fnins.2017.00612
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