ArticleBiology of sport2015
Rating of perceived exertion as a tool for prescribing and self regulating interval training: a pilot study.
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The Effects of Low-Volume High Intensity Interval Training and Circuit Training on Maximal Oxygen Uptake
Efficacy of a Personalized Concurrent Exercise Prescription Guide for Controlling Cardiovascular Risk and Enhancing Physical Fitness in Adults From a Cardiovascular Health Program: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Impact of resistance and high-intensity interval training on body composition, physical function, and temporal dynamics of adaptation in older women with impaired cardiometabolic health: a randomized clinical trial.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Interindividual Variability Response to Resistance and High-Intensity Interval Training on Blood Pressure Reduction in Hypertensive Older Adults.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Article
- Work rate adjustments needed to maintain heart rate and RPE during high-intensity interval training in the heat.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- A training goal-oriented categorization model of high-intensity interval training.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
- Associations between Borg's rating of perceived exertion and changes in urinary organic acid metabolites after outdoor weight-bearing hiking.World journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- Assessment of Exercise Intensity for Uphill Walking in Healthy Adults Performed Indoors and Outdoors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Urinary extracellular vesicle as a potential biomarker of exercise-induced fatigue in young adult males.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Article
- The Effect of Endurance Training on Pulmonary V˙OInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Increases in motor unit action potential amplitudes are related to muscle hypertrophy following eight weeks of high-intensity exercise training in females.European journal of sport science · 2021Article
- Differential effects on blood and cerebrospinal fluid immune protein markers and kynurenine pathway metabolites from aerobic physical exercise in healthy subjects.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Differences in Physiological and Perceptual Responses to High Intensity Interval Exercise Between Arm and Leg Cycling.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- Viability of high intensity interval training in persons with spinal cord injury-a perspective review.Spinal cord · 2021Review
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- Is Perceived Exertion a Useful Indicator of the Metabolic and Cardiovascular Responses to a Metabolic Conditioning Session of Functional Fitness?Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
- Relationships between rating of perceived exertion, heart rate and blood lactate during continuous and alternated-intensity cycling exercises.Biology of sport · 2018Article
- Metabolic effects of resistance or high-intensity interval training among glycemic control-nonresponsive children with insulin resistance.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2018Article
- In-season training periodization of professional soccer players.Biology of sport · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to analyse the usefulness of the 6-20 rating of perceived exertion (RPE) scale for prescribing and self-regulating high-intensity interval training (HIT) in young individuals. Eight healthy young subjects (age = 27.5±6.7 years) performed maximal graded exercise testing to determine their maximal and reserve heart rate (HR). Subjects then performed two HIT sessions (20 min on a treadmill) prescribed and regulated by their HR (HR: 1 min at 50% alternated with 1 min at 85% of reserve HR) or RPE (RPE: 1 minute at the 9-11 level [very light-fairly light] alternated with 1 minute at the 15-17 level [hard-very hard]) in random order. HR response and walking/running speed during the 20 min of exercise were compared between sessions. No significant difference between sessions was observed in HR during low- (HR: 135±15 bpm; RPE: 138±20 bpm) and high-intensity intervals (HR: 168±15 bpm; RPE: 170±18 bpm). Walking/running speed during low- (HR: 5.7±1.2 km · h(-1); RPE: 5.7±1.3 km · h(-1)) and high-intensity intervals (HR: 7.8±1.9 km · h(-1); RPE: 8.2±1.7 km · h(-1)) was also not different between sessions. No significant differences were observed in HR response and walking/running speed between HIT sessions prescribed and regulated by HR or RPE. This finding suggests that the 6-20 RPE scale may be a useful tool for prescribing and self-regulating HIT in young subjects.
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