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Table 1 Session Rating of Perceived Exertion (sRPE) Scale

From: Comparisons of Perceived Training Doses in Champion Collegiate-Level Male and Female Cross-country Runners and Coaches over the Course of a Competitive Season

Rating	Verbal anchor^a
0	Rest
1	Very easy
2	Easy
3	Moderate
4	Sort of hard
5	Hard
6
7	Very hard
8	Very, very hard
9	Near maximal
10	Maximal

^aSubjects rated the entire training session 30 min after exercise in response to the verbal prompt “if a friend who did not understand the specific training expressions of athletics were to ask you how hard your training session was, how would you reply?”

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