RPE is an abbreviation that stands for “Rate of Perceived Exertion.” This RPE scale is a 1 – 10 scale, where 1/10 is no perceived effort, and 10/10 is maximal effort. There are a few reasons why we use the RPE scale for our strength work at Yellow Rose Fitness
In the fitness social media world, you can scroll for more than 5 minutes without seeing some sort of overly complex HIIT workout, strength combo, or something else to try and keep your attention. You’ve probably seen someone on Instagram take simple movements, make them far more complicated than necessary,
Tips On Plateaus Plateaus are inevitable. You’ll start out training, see great progress quickly, and then those results will slowly steady out. After a while, you might even feel like you’re not making any progress at all. This has got to be one of the most frustrating feelings in
By now, you’ve been inundated by fitness professionals telling you how to handle Thanksgiving. That’s great, but most of them miss the point. The few holiday/family events we have in a year don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. It’s what we do on the boring and mundane days
The bench press, while looking quite simple, is actually a pretty technical lift. There are a lot of moving (and not moving) parts to this lift that require attention if we are going to perform this lift optimally. While you could write an entire book on the bench press, I’m
Squat. Hinge. Press. Everyday. When we’re looking at movement for humans, there are some basic movement patterns that we want to train in order to keep our bodies functioning at a high level. As you can tell from the title of this blog, those patterns are the squat, the hinge,
*Prioritize Protein There’s one thing that I know everyone can benefit from in here nutritionally, and that is prioritizing protein at every meal. Why? Welp, when you workout with us, your muscles breakdown and the protein that you ingest helps rebuild those muscles. More specifically, the body breaks down those grams of
One of the things we love doing at Yellow Rose is keeping you “in the know” with all of the happenings, but specifically with our workouts and programming. While our workouts change every day, we do not subscribe to randomized workouts. Everything has a method and a purpose behind it.
*How to Handle Game Time and Still Hit Your Goals* It’s no secret you’re going to be watching some baseball on Friday and Saturday… but that doesn’t mean we have to get all crazy and erase the progress that we’ve made this week (unless that’s worth it to you, which
Battle Buddy 57 Hey everyone, Coach Chad here! If you’ve been to the gym recently, you’ve probably heard you coach telling you that Battle Buddy 57 is coming up again – Dec 3rd, 2022 to be exact. I know we cover announcement quickly, so I wanted to share a little
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