Tag: session RPE
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Testing in Periodization: When to Test and Why
A training plan is a guess about how an athlete will respond, and a test checks the guess. This article covers testing in periodization: baseline, monitoring, and retest. It explains when tests belong in the plan, how often to repeat them, and what to do with the results.
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Periodizing Technical and Tactical Load
Most periodization plans track physical stress in detail and leave tactical and technical sessions unweighted. Research on mental fatigue shows tactical load has its own cost: it lowers physical output, degrades decision-making, and may raise injury risk when it stacks with physical fatigue. This article covers the evidence and how to plan tactical load alongside…
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Gunnar Borg
Gunnar Borg built the instrument exercise science uses to ask people how hard they are working. A history from the 6–20 scale in 1962 to the CR10 in 1982 to Foster’s session RPE in 2001, plus notes on how RPE sits inside Afitpilot — and why the acute:chronic workload ratio is shown but deliberately not…