Beep Test

[flash]

Has anyone here ever done a beep test? If so how was your score? Also, anyone know what some of the elite players may have scored on this test?

[Hob Nob]

I haven't done it for a very long time, bu as a junior, and training 5 times a week, I could get to around level 18/19. I seem to recall it going up to 23???

No matter how fit I thought I was, its a supreme amount of effort when you are up in the high teens to keep it going & increase the pace minute by minute.

However, I would have thought a fair few of the top guys should be able to complete it?

[paul8241]

I haven't done a beep test myself, but I know one squash player that's doing in the 16's. Most of the fittest kids were doing 12's to 13's

[NMC8]

Hi,

Can someone explain to me how the beep test works and how you would go about doing one.

thanks,

nmc8

[ianball]

We called it the bleep test.
Run from one side of the room to the other in time with an ever increasing paced bleep, get there after the bleep and you're out. Starts of walking pace. I dont know how it accounts for different sized rooms.

[paul8241]

There are a lot of websites that explain it fairly well, like this one http://www.topendsports.com/testing/tes ... huttle.htm

You would really need a cd to do it, the timed intervals are very specific.

You could download it for free from a shareware site, or buy the cd online. You'd probable find that the sports stores them as well.

Most schools have copies too that they use as an improvement measure.

[Hob Nob]

Its normally a 20m gap between the two points you run between.

[Newsquash]

I dont know how it accounts for different sized rooms.

It doesn't. It's a standardized test that is meant to be run over 20m.

[NMC8]

Cheers guys, I think i will give it a try.

nmc8

[Squash4Life]

When I was in high school I actually beat the beep test. This was in Canada so I don't know if it was a separate version than might be available elsewheres. My gym coach hadn't had anyone come near what I did ever. I had never even heard of the beep test until it came up in

I was an aspiring junior squash player that trained as hard as I could. I was training with a guy that actually won the Canadian Juniors and beat Razik so I guess we were training hard. Its kind of strange when you're young because you don't really have much experience and no concept really of what hard training is. It turned out that the training we were doing was quite amazing... I knew this when I beat the beep test. Actually, I knew when my classmates that were OHL hockey stars dropped out. The beep test isn't so much running at a world class pace, its mostly just running at your fastest... for a long time.

[flash]

The article about Robbie Deans recruiting David Palmer as a conditioning coach for the Wallabies answers one of my original questions in this thread. What a freak - completing the test 5 times back to back with 3 minute breaks between tests. This would surely put him as one of the fittest humans on the planet.
On another note, what a great endorsement/advertisement for squash. Even my local paper picked up this article and ran it in the Union pages of the sport section.

[SFsquasher]

The article about Robbie Deans recruiting David Palmer as a conditioning coach for the Wallabies answers one of my original questions in this thread. What a freak - completing the test 5 times back to back with 3 minute breaks between tests. This would surely put him as one of the fittest humans on the planet.
On another note, what a great endorsement/advertisement for squash. Even my local paper picked up this article and ran it in the Union pages of the sport section.

Do you mean to say Palmer can complete the test 5 times back to back? If so, that's unbelievable.

[flash]

That's what the article says. Here's the link;
http://www.squashsite.co.uk/2009/shorts.htm

[seshadri]

This just reinforces my belief that, aerobically, Palmer is still the fittest squash player in the world. That's why I think he loses mostly to the Egyptians, who play anaerobically, and not that often to the Europeans.

[NMC8]

It is truly amazing that he is capable of that feat. When looking at some websites around the subject of the bleep test they were extoling the virtues of individual sports and how the best rated in each, only one or two people completed the test and most were congratulated for achieving aroung the 16/17 mark.

I agree with Seshadri's comments, that to take on Palmer in a test of endurance is almost pointless but to play him off court is the way.

A truely outstanding sportsman.

nmc8

[SFsquasher]

That's what the article says. Here's the link;
http://www.squashsite.co.uk/2009/shorts.htm

Absolutely unbelievable, I did not think that was humanly possible. People usually make a big deal of it when you can complete it once! And the fact that he can do it in his 30's is even more amazing. What an incredible athlete, I'd take him over anyone in the world, including Rafael Nadal.

[D to the AN]

I also heard Palmer would run 300 courtsprints under 15mins easily as well as back-to-back sets of hundreds. Similarly, Ricketts could run 20 sets of 24s under a minute (with 45secs break) and multiple 28s under 60secs. In any case, all that stuff is totally unbelievable, but running back to back bleep-tests beats that easily. I mean come on? Bleept tests are a respected measurement of fitness and if they had some real material to back this up, I am sure it could cause quite a stir in the training/athletics world and would make for a fabulous news story and marketing for squash (not that the Wallabies story has not done so already).

[Squash4Life]

I also heard Palmer would run 300 courtsprints under 15mins easily as well as back-to-back sets of hundreds. Similarly, Ricketts could run 20 sets of 24s under a minute (with 45secs break) and multiple 28s under 60secs. In any case, all that stuff is totally unbelievable, but running back to back bleep-tests beats that easily. I mean come on? Bleept tests are a respected measurement of fitness and if they had some real material to back this up, I am sure it could cause quite a stir in the training/athletics world and would make for a fabulous news story and marketing for squash (not that the Wallabies story has not done so already).

If they had a 3 minute break in between sets then its totally believable. The first few levels of the beep test would basically just continue the break.

[AlistarGrant]

Hmmmmm interesting. I actually invented a harder beep test that went to 64 not just 23. I did this as a warm up most days.
Squash4life maybe we could train together as you sound like a hellman aswell.