
S6E14: Quantifying the MMA Athlete - Physical Demands, RPE & Harsh Reality of Periodization w Dr. Chris Kirk
The Performance Nutrition Podcast
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Is Heart Rate Going to Reflect That?
MMA is not an ambulatory sport because they do spend a lot of the time in isometric actions. Those heart rate. amount, necessarily, gives us a strong indication in internal load either. So we were essentially left with using RPE, which is a rate and exertion to give us an overall just stout of the internal training load. And actually started this process with the idea that RPE is OK, but it's subjective. Now I'm very much of the opinion that it's quasi-subjective or being mostly objective.
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