PR — personal record
Your best result in an exercise: the heaviest weight, more reps with the same weight, or the highest estimated max.
PR stands for personal record — a PB in British gyms. One exercise can have several: the heaviest single, more reps with the same weight (100 kg for 6 after 100 kg for 5), and the best estimated max from any set. The last is the handiest: it compares 90 kg for 8 and 100 kg for 5 in one number.
A record doesn't have to be heavy and scary. Beginners set records almost every week, and that's a normal sign that progressive overload is working. When records dry up for a month, that's a signal to look at your log, not a reason to test your max every day.
I spot records myself when you log a set: a new estimated max gets a flame, and the 1RM calculator works out the one-rep max from any set.
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In the diary I work out all of these numbers myself — you just log the set.
Prefer Telegram? Open the bot — same diary.
Other terms
- e1RM (estimated one-rep max)
- RPE (rating of perceived exertion)
- RIR (reps in reserve)
- Tonnage
- Double progression
- Superset
- Drop set
- Warm-up set
- Working set
- Plateau
- Deload
- Hypertrophy
- 1RM (one-rep max)
- AMRAP (as many reps as possible)
- Training to failure
- Training volume
- Training frequency
- Training max
- Linear progression
- Compound exercise