Hello All,
I made a little RPE Calculator based on the ones I’ve seen online.
Make yourself a copy if you find it useful.
Just punch in your 1RM into the green box at the top left.
—SB
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Awesome, thanks man
Thanks for the link. Is there a similar spread sheet for women/slow twitch/low responders. I am a male, but I am pretty sure I can get more significant more reps at the percentages of 1 RPM than indicated in that chart.
One thing about RPE training is that it inherently works that into the training. For example if you are trying to a set of 5 at RPE 8 this chart suggest 81.1%. But lets say that in order to get 5 reps at RPE 8 I have to have 86.3 of my 1 RPM on the bar. As long as I accurately gauging RPE it seems like the system is already adjusting the intensity higher to account for the fact that I am a bit of a low-responder.
I guess that kind raises the question of what a template for women/male low responders would be. The RPE system already accounts for them some–that said would the volume get increased too?
Note to all that we recently started building Barbell Medicine calculators for common areas of interest. We’re currently keeping these in the Resources page of our website here: Resources | Barbell Medicine
Appreciate your feedback on these tools and suggestions on what others you’d like to see as we want to build more of these.