Ask Rip #50

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Mark Rippetoe

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🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0	Al?
0:01.0	Yeah, first things first, I gotta say that it's pretty cool to be on the other side of this camera.
0:17.0	That's everything I thought it would be.
0:19.0	Oh, good. I'm glad you're happy.
0:22.6	I'd like to know when the next edition of practical programming for strength training comes out with a chapter on RPE training.
0:29.6	Well, it won't.
0:30.6	Okay, two-part question.
0:32.6	Why not?
0:33.6	I guess for my entertainment, what are your thoughts on it?
0:35.6	All right, we get this question all the time since RPE has become very popular.
0:41.1	And our friend Mike Dousshaire has done a good job with that.
0:44.7	But I don't think that even Mike has made the mistake of trying to apply RPE training to a population that can't use it.
0:55.0	The problem is the P.
0:58.0	Right?
1:00.0	Perception.
1:03.0	Perceived exertion.
1:06.0	In my opinion, it takes probably four years of training experience to have a useful handle on what that even means.
1:17.6	A novice is absolutely unequipped to make subjective assessments of what was hard and what wasn't. Right?
1:29.3	And your own training bears this out.
1:32.3	There have been many days that you wandered into the gym, hung over, felt like a pile of dead rats,
1:39.3	got out of the bar and set a PR.
1:42.3	Right?
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