Originally Posted by
Roobo
I have mixed feelings, there are experienced lifters that obviously use it well but I tried using RPE for 6 months and found that most of my lifts either stayed the same or started to drift backwards. Obviously I have to take the blame for this as I allowed the drift to happen but I can honestly say I used I never deliberately put less weight on the bar and only tried to use RPE as instructed.
Going back to NLP I've got my squat back up to where it was and progress is going nicely, I learned that I need the intensity to be fairly high to know what a heavy set feels like, 120kg only feels easy when I'm lifting 140kg but lower the weight and 120kg will feel heavy again. Last night I really didn't want to do the last two squats but I did them anyway and they moved great which shows me that I can't reliably trust my perception as not wanting to do something isn't the same as not being able to.