Are you in a love-hate relationship with your heart rate monitor?

Do you get so obsessed with the heart rate number on the screen that you forget to tune into your own body?

Or maybe you're a beginner who feels overwhelmed by all the science behind heart rate training. You're already on a steep learning curve, and it's just more stuff to pack into your poor, overloaded brain!

Friends, if you're looking for a super simple way to measure workout intensity so you can get the results you want, let me introduce you to my friend the RPE scale.

RPE stands for "ratings of perceived exertion," and it's probably one of the best tools you can have in your belt as an endurance athlete.

And in the next 15 minutes, I'm going to show you everything you need to use it! It's that easy.

Ready? Let's do this!

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In this episode, you’ll learn …

• The RPE scale: what it is. and why it’s useful. Benefits of using the RPE scale in conjunction with or as a substitute for heart rate training.

• The easy recovery workout: it’s uses and how to keep it light and easy with the RPE scale.

• The endurance workout: why this is the backbone of mountaineering training, and how to hit the right intensity using the RPE scale, the talk test, and breath markers.

• The lactate threshold workout: why it matters to mountaineers, and how to use the RPE scale and breath signals to find your lactate threshold intensity.

• VO2 max and HIIT workouts: who should work out at maximal intensity, the benefits, and some physiological markers to ensure proper dosing.