What Is Yo Yo Test?

What Is Yo Yo Test?

The multi-stage fitness test, also known as the beep test, bleep test, PACER, PACER test, FitnessGram PACER test, or the 20 m Shuttle Run Test, is a running test used to estimate an athlete's aerobic capacity. The test requires participants to run 20 meters back and forth across a marked track keeping time with beeps.

What is the meaning of Yo-Yo test?

Yo-Yo is a variation of the Beep test, a running aerobic fitness routine that Indian cricketers had to undergo in the past. ... Yo-Yo probes a sportsperson's endurance and ability to pace himself; towards the end of the maximal running aerobic fitness drill, an element of speed comes into play.

How do you do a Yo-Yo test?

A yo-yo test involves a player shuttling between two cones that are set 20 metres apart on flat ground. He starts on a beep and needs to get to the cone at the other end before the second beep goes. He then turns back and returns to the starting cone before the third beep. That is one "shuttle".

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