Funny you should bring the TSA up. I was just ruminating over a claim by a captain of industry on an old Law and Order episode who claimed that an increased standard of care would bankrupt businesses like the airlines if they were required to search every passenger. I concluded that Bush simply transferred that cost from the airlines and airport authorities to the taxpayers by creating the TSA as a government agency and hence paid for with our taxes.
I don't think it takes four years to tune yourself to RPE.
At least to get some basic use out of it.
IMO, maybe middle stage intermediate should be able to feel their way through this.
Regarding: "feel like a pile of dead rats" scenario . . . thats a rare exception.
For every ONE time I actually set a PR under those crappy feelz conditions;
there were maybe TEN times where I did not hit the Rx'd weights and/or reps.
Whereas I felt like crap, the warm ups felt like crap, and the worksets/topset did NOT work out at all (big surprise).
Just took on a bunch more stress and fatigue I didn't necessarily need at the time.
But yes, novices should stay away from this.
And I'm pretty sure most who advocate RPE at a tool would (probably) say the same.
this^
please link the source of the chart on the wall
spacedriver linked this geologic timetable:http://www.biocab.org/Geological_TS_SL_and_CO2.jpg
He's asking about the chart on my wall at the gym
I really don't understand this RPE hysteria, to me it's just a way to measure the effort of a set. Some people talk about RPE programming, when did this modest tool to measure the effort become a program? How can it be a program?