No pain, no gain, no idea what half these terms mean.
How quickly you can generate maximum force, essentially your muscles' 0-60 time. Critical for explosive athletes and completely ignored by people who think lifting slowly is somehow superior for building strength.
The degree of movement through a joint. Full ROM builds strength through the entire movement; half-reps build half-progress.
A full-contact sport beloved by those who consider football padding to be for the weak, involving 80 minutes of organized chaos where grown adults chase an oval ball while legally tackling each other into the mud. It's soccer's angry older brother who went to the gym.
A training technique where you perform a set to failure, rest briefly (10-30 seconds), then continue for additional reps. It's the workout equivalent of a horror movie where the monster keeps coming back just when you thought it was over.
Short for 'referee'—the authority figure in sports who enforces rules and makes judgment calls that angry fans will dispute for years afterward. Also sometimes slang for a refrigerator, but that's considerably less controversial.
A radio-controlled miniature car that can be operated remotely, commonly used for racing against friends or in competitive hobby communities.
Reps In Reserve—how many reps you could theoretically do before failure. A more nuanced way than RPE to measure effort.
Calories your body burns at rest just to maintain basic functions—usually 60-75% of total daily energy expenditure, making it the real calorie-burning machine.
A single complete execution of an exercise, from starting position through full range of motion and back—the building block of any set that your brain tries to forget when you're fatigued.
An acronym for 'Row Fast Eat Ass'—a rowing crew's motto celebrating hard work and dominance, typically shouted when someone hits a personal record. It's athletic motivation meets crude team spirit.
A subjective scale (usually 1-10) measuring how hard you think you're working, because sometimes your feelings matter more than your smartwatch.
Revolutions Per Minute—the cadence or speed at which you pedal a bike or strike a running tempo. Cyclists obsess over this; runners less so.