Built-In Exercise Monitor Predicts Fitness

From the University of Exeter. Is "Exeter" a fancy word for "dumb as a doornail"?

"We all hold the secret to getting fit, according to researchers from the University of Exeter. The research team has shown that we each have a built-in ability to judge how hard our bodies are working, often with remarkable precision."

What is this "secret"?

"A series of studies over the last two years, culminating in three academic papers in the past two months, has shown a consistently close correlation between actual and perceived exertion in people of all levels of fitness. The team has found that an individual's own sense of how hard he or she is working corresponds exactly with actual level of exertion, measured by heart-rate and oxygen uptake."

What a discovery!

Now Google "Borg RPE Scale."

Don't these fools read?

Really, the research bucks are going down the tubes.

The "secret to getting fit" is not listening to any of the experts.