Prediction of performance reduction in self-paced exercise as modulated by the rating of perceived exertion

Rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a scale of exercise difficulty and has been hypothesized to be a regulator of work rate during self-pacing. The goal of this work was to develop a dynamic prediction of RPE and to characterize the control strategy employed to reduce work rate during self-paced exercise using RPE as feedback. Training and test data were acquired from the literature to develop a linear regression of RPE as a function of four...