I just got off a podcast interview with the guys from the Full-Fueled Podcast. We were talking about the biggest factors that keep people from making progress in the weight room.

One of them is not adjusting their RPE...

RPE is a weight lifting acronym that stands for Rate of Perceived Effort.

Essentially it asks, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being super easy and 10 being the hardest thing possible, how much effort did it take to complete your set.

When it comes to the weight room, most people spend their time in the 6 to 7 range of effort...

They never go any higher, but will happily go a little lower...

For those people, that 6 to 7 level of effort always feels hard...those people also rarely get better results.

The same can be said for most effort put into work...

Most people sit around a 6 or 7 and think that the effort they're putting out is hard...

But it's only because they've trained themselves into thinking that moderate effort is hard...not because it's actually pushing their mental and physical limits.

ACTION:

If you find your progress stalled out, ask yourself what your true level of effort looks like. If you're currently at a 6 or a 7, and you know you have more in the tank, ask yourself how you can take your effort up to an 8, 9, or 10.

Until next time, here's to your 1% growth everyday...

Jerry