Hi listeners, old and new. Coach Kevin Donne here with another weekly injection of fitness facts.

This episode, I attempt to unravel what place feelings might have in your training regimen.

So this week I headed to the gym to work out with a professional heavyweight boxer.

Note that I said workout and not train because I don't usually do this and therefore it doesn't

have any meaningful impact on my adaptations or long-term goals. So it's not training. It's just

working out. Whilst I was there, this boxer told me he was feeling

great because for the last two weeks, he has solely followed a carnivore diet and only eaten

ground beef. Now, being rather well acquainted with a lot of different data around training,

this diet is an example of utter nonsense.

There have been multiple studies done on fueling human contractions, never mind athletic

contractions, within a low carbohydrate environment and it never goes well.

I'm not here to get into nutrition because quick and dirty tips have a whole podcast dedicated just to that.

So if you haven't already done so, check out Nutrition Diva for more.

However, I can definitely see some parallels with fitness and strength training and how people aren't really in touch with reality around

their training and quite simply people can't be trusted. I have a doctor friend who works in the

ER and he tells me he doesn't even ask people anymore on a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate

your pain because people are always an 8 or nine. Reality is eight would put you

straight on morphine, not a couple of Tylenol. So what does this mean in terms of our training? Well,

you might have heard of the RPE scale. It's an acronym for rate of perceived exertion, and it relies entirely on a trainee subjectively

assessing the difficulty of their own training.

And the RPE scale goes like this.

At 10, you're at your max and can do no more reps.

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