I think thats because we generally overestimate how intelligent the average person is. Often ‘off’ is just stupid trying to express itself.
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My guess is that “truly motivated” and the claim of “dedicated” is nothing more than “baseline consistency” for over a decade. Which, really, can ultimately amount to very little.
I suspect this certain individual has grossly overestimated the amount of work they’ve invested in the pursuit of strength.
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I just can’t trust self assessed effort. When people start throwing around RPE (which I think is a bullshit application of an already blunt tool) I immediately deduct 3 from what ever they wrote.
My RPE 9-10 involves torn muscles and dislocated joints. Others RPE 9-10 involves numerically repped “max”. WTF?
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Even Arnold couldn’t train to real failure. Franco could only manage it for two weeks.
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Hehe, yeah, RPE 9-10 is what happens when your body is trying to save your life (or someone else’s). It’s simply not accessible through the normal pathways.
Only through Deep Water Portals.
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There’s a nerve bundle at the base of your septum and between the roots of your two front teeth that you can drive a knuckle into to induce a jolt of pain and adrenaline.
Not that I’m suggesting it. But it’s there. Right before a real max.
It REALLY works when you do it to someone else and then your own “fight or flight” kicks in.
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Yeah! Something better kick in. The guy that showed me that little trick did it really quick then jumped way back!
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I think RPE is a pretty good tool but how powerlifters high jacked the term to be synonymous with reps in reserve is a pretty poor application.
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If you’re still conscious at the end of a set, was it RPE 10?
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Not a true 10, maybe 9.7 though
See how nicely it confuses something that is relatively simple?
Situation 1:
“You tired?”
“Yeah.”
“Good.”.
Situation 2:
“You tired?”.
“No. That was too easy at the end.”.
“Throw on another plate.”.
Petechial hemorrhaging= 8-10.
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Dave Tate had a metric for this with Max Effort workouts. Instead of RPE, it measured degrees of how stupid it was to go for that last lift.
You had stupid, really stupid, and really f**king stupid.
It worked well.
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Dave Tate is pretty strong. I’m gonna defer to might makes right in that regard.
In ALL regards!
But yeah, it worked well. Go do an awful looking grinder of a max effort set and collapse onto the reverse hyper.
“Dave, that was stupid”
HUFF WEAZE “I know!”
“I bet you could do 25 more pounds”
“F**k you”
25lbs later
“Dave, that was REALLY stupid”
GASP PANT VOMIT
“Probably good for another 10 or so”
“F**K YOU!”
12 second good morning single
“Dave, that was REALLY f**king stupid”
“SHUT UP!”
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And you guys call me stupid for a couple of burpees 
I also just ate 2lbs of Brussel sprouts, so I’m far from intelligent
“A couple” is traditionally understood to mean mean 2.
Like, you ate a couple of pounds of brussel sprouts.
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You’re going to have to add in bathroom sprints tomorrow!