Beep test experience

Bluenose said:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with the running beep fitness test? You
know the one where you run/sprint 20-25metres after the beep.

How difficult is it and how fit do you have to be to reach 8.5?
(whatever that means)

Any comments or hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Answers to the respective questions...

Yep,
Depends on how fit you are,
A male in their 30s that scores 8.5 in the beep test is probably around the average for normal people (fair to good).

Try this website for more information...

http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/beep.htm

Ritch

Bluenose said:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with the running beep fitness test? You
know the one where you run/sprint 20-25metres after the beep.

How difficult is it and how fit do you have to be to reach 8.5?
(whatever that means)

Any comments or hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Usually it's a 20 point to point ( cricket pitch length).
There are timed beeps that get faster roughly every minute.
At level 1 you need to run at an average of 8.5km/h.
Approximately every minute the level increases, and the speed increases
by 0.5km/h.
ie. level 1 = 8.5km/h
level 2 = 9.0km/h
level 3 = 9.5km/h etc
The higher the level the faster you run, and the harder it is.

To reach 8.5 means to complete the 5th shuttle on level 8 ( level 8 =
12.0km/h).
Level 8.5 would require moderate to good fitness. Some training helps.

You can download the soundtrack from
http://www.defence.gov.au/army/hq8bde/jobs/fitness.htm

Some information about the training can be read at www.mfb.org.au (
look under "careers in mfb", and then "firefighter selection tests".

With some training I made level 9.5 and could have kept going another
level before collapsing. I'm quite fit but a terrible runner!

Good luck.

Hi,

I'm guessing that if I can run my 5km in 25mins over undulating ground
should be sufficient to pass the test.

Thanks for the info....it's most informative and much appreciated.

yogi bear said:

Bluenose said:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with the running beep fitness test? You
know the one where you run/sprint 20-25metres after the beep.

How difficult is it and how fit do you have to be to reach 8.5?
(whatever that means)

Any comments or hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Usually it's a 20 point to point ( cricket pitch length).
There are timed beeps that get faster roughly every minute.
At level 1 you need to run at an average of 8.5km/h.
Approximately every minute the level increases, and the speed increases
by 0.5km/h.
ie. level 1 = 8.5km/h
level 2 = 9.0km/h
level 3 = 9.5km/h etc
The higher the level the faster you run, and the harder it is.

To reach 8.5 means to complete the 5th shuttle on level 8 ( level 8 =
12.0km/h).
Level 8.5 would require moderate to good fitness. Some training helps.

You can download the soundtrack from
http://www.defence.gov.au/army/hq8bde/jobs/fitness.htm

Some information about the training can be read at www.mfb.org.au (
look under "careers in mfb", and then "firefighter selection tests".

With some training I made level 9.5 and could have kept going another
level before collapsing. I'm quite fit but a terrible runner!

Good luck.

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 at 04:59 GMT, yogi bear (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

To reach 8.5 means to complete the 5th shuttle on level 8 ( level 8 =
12.0km/h).
Level 8.5 would require moderate to good fitness. Some training helps.

Yikes!

This is so horribly biased against people who think that running is a
silly idea invented by triatheletes to make triatheletes look better.

And I bet this fitness scheme was invented by them too!

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
}> Is "wrongest" an actual word?
} It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Which, when used, embiggens us all.
-- Jeff Ramsey, Steed and D. Joseph Creighton @ ASR

"How difficult is it..."

Well, errrr, it depends on how fit you are......

Absent Husband (who isn't very...)

TimC said:

This is so horribly biased against people who think that running is a
silly idea invented by triatheletes to make triatheletes look better.

And I bet this fitness scheme was invented by them too!

its also used in the CFS. a friend of mine went through the fitness test
late last year. he recons this particular test is bias againt tall large
folk. bias towards short thin folk. so its kind of difficult because a
lot of the other tests are bias towards folk who can run with a 25kg
backpack up the local waterfall gully in under 20 minutes. i'm yet to
see waterfall gully but i'm told its steep and treturous to run up
without any kind of load on.

kim

TimC said:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 at 04:59 GMT, yogi bear (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

To reach 8.5 means to complete the 5th shuttle on level 8 ( level 8 =
12.0km/h).
Level 8.5 would require moderate to good fitness. Some training helps.

Yikes!

This is so horribly biased against people who think that running is a
silly idea invented by triatheletes to make triatheletes look better.

And I bet this fitness scheme was invented by them too!

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
}> Is "wrongest" an actual word?
} It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Which, when used, embiggens us all.
-- Jeff Ramsey, Steed and D. Joseph Creighton @ ASR

Alas, the test is not really biased against cyclists, it measures VO2max - an indicator of endurance cycling ability (though certainly not the only factor). VO2max efforts are pretty short, so they don't really indicate how you would go in a marathon or the alpine classic, but people that have high power output at VO2max tend to have high power output at lactate threshold levels (i.e., efforts that can be maintained for longer periods).

In other words, a beep test result of 8.5 won't see you winning any A grade crits. Or D-grade for that matter. Nevertheless, you'd be able to run up a flight of stairs without collapsing and probably puff less than most people.

Ritch

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Quoted message said:

TimC said:

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 at 04:59 GMT, yogi bear (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

Quoted message said:

To reach 8.5 means to complete the 5th shuttle on level 8 ( level 8

=

Quoted message said:

12.0km/h).
Level 8.5 would require moderate to good fitness. Some training

helps.

Yikes!

This is so horribly biased against people who think that running is a
silly idea invented by triatheletes to make triatheletes look better.

And I bet this fitness scheme was invented by them too!

--
TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
}> Is "wrongest" an actual word?
} It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Which, when used, embiggens us all.
-- Jeff Ramsey, Steed and D. Joseph Creighton @ ASR

Alas, the test is not really biased against cyclists, it measures
VO2max - an indicator of endurance cycling ability (though certainly
not the only factor). VO2max efforts are pretty short, so they don't
really indicate how you would go in a marathon or the alpine classic,
but people that have high power output at VO2max tend to have high
power output at lactate threshold levels (i.e., efforts that can be
maintained for longer periods).

In other words, a beep test result of 8.5 won't see you winning any A
grade crits. Or D-grade for that matter. Nevertheless, you'd be able to
run up a flight of stairs without collapsing and probably puff less than
most people.

Ritch

We used to do these semi-regularly when I was playing footy. I used to be
able to manage in the mid 11s or so and once I made it to 12.0. The best
advice is to alter your pace so that you are getting to the end as the beep
goes so that you pretty well are running constantly. This means starting
out slow and then getting quicker and quicker rather than sprinting the
early ones and then standing still at the end to wait for the beep (all the
while building up the lactic acid).

I agree that the test does favour smaller agile guys as they spend less time
turning around than a lumbering ruckman (picture the titanic). We had a
couple of on-ballers at the club who used to get up in the 14s somewhere!!!

I am sure that the test would give some indication of VO2 max but I don't
think that is consistant given the agility factor. I would always run out
of leg strength rather than cardio capacity as my top speed was quite a bit
less than most of the guys (but, I was still 195cm in the last quarter each
week when all the fast guys were slowing down).

Run On (please excuse the foul language)

Gags

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>> "Bluenose" == Bluenose <[email hidden]> writes:

Bluenose> Hi, Has anyone had any experience with the running beep
Bluenose> fitness test? You know the one where you run/sprint
Bluenose> 20-25metres after the beep.

Yep, PTIs love them for some reason.

Bluenose> How difficult is it and how fit do you have to be to reach
Bluenose> 8.5? (whatever that means)

As a regular distance runner, not sprinter, I comfortably exceeded
11.0. For reference I was doing 10k in about 40 mins or so back then.

Bluenose> Any comments or hints and tips would be greatly
Bluenose> appreciated.

As already mentioned, pace yourself so that you're turning on the beep.

If you think the running one's sick, wait till you try the sit up one
and the press up one. They're really strange.
--
Cheers
Euan

Bluenose said:

Hi,

Has anyone had any experience with the running beep fitness test? You
know the one where you run/sprint 20-25metres after the beep.

How difficult is it and how fit do you have to be to reach 8.5?
(whatever that means)

Quoted message said:

Any comments or hints and tips would be greatly appreciated.

Ummm... my experience is... however fit you are, even if your whole body
(except brain) is made up of fast-twitch muscle, and however good your
endurance is... the guys (and gals) that can actually run fast will make
you curl up in a rasping-gasping-for-breath foetal position and wish
you'd never come to pre-season upper-grades field hockey training...

Quoted message said:

Thanks in advance

<fred (aka bruce aka whatever I am now) desperately sucks in oxygen,
wishes he'd never turned up for the pre-season, and resolves not to turn
up to training again until it's a fortnight to the start of the winter
season so he misses out on being nominated for some club administrative
nonsense position...>

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>>> "Bluenose" == Bluenose <[email hidden]> writes:

Bluenose> Hi, Has anyone had any experience with the running beep
Bluenose> fitness test? You know the one where you run/sprint
Bluenose> 20-25metres after the beep.

Yep, PTIs love them for some reason.

Bluenose> How difficult is it and how fit do you have to be to reach
Bluenose> 8.5? (whatever that means)

As a regular distance runner, not sprinter, I comfortably exceeded
11.0. For reference I was doing 10k in about 40 mins or so back then.

Bluenose> Any comments or hints and tips would be greatly
Bluenose> appreciated.

As already mentioned, pace yourself so that you're turning on the beep.

If you think the running one's sick, wait till you try the sit up one
and the press up one. They're really strange.
--
Cheers
Euan

"This is the tape for the situp test.
Positions, ready. 1..2..3.."

Actually it's kinda cute if you and the Count Dracula "This is the tape
for the situp test, I am count dracula ha ha ha. One ha ha ha, Two ha ha
ha, Three ha ha ha..."

I'd add to work on your turns, you see people doing the strangest
running in circles or trying to do huge pushoffs. I find it easiest to
turn your feet on the last two steps across the line so you can just
change direction with your body, kind of how netballers etc. turn on the
spot.