Cooper test V02

[DBSV8]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 23 November 2010 at 14:49

[captainzep]

Impressive outcome DB.

I like the Cooper test, (actually whilst I'm gasping\staggering along beyond 6-7 minutes I fecking despise it) but its a good way of showing fitness progression when you're starting out and a nice occasional change of routine as part of normal training.

I've never done it on a treadmill, but managed something like 2750m in the 12 minutes (V02 max 50.19) a couple of years ago as a reasonably fit 33 yr old fat bloke on the (flatish) local highways and byeways. -I'd be interested to hear what distance you could cover on a track/road.

[E21_Ross]

yeh i did this about 2 years ago to test our progress with my athletics club, i covered about 3500m and that worked out at about 65 for VO2 max.

have you ever done the bleep test? that's quite a nasty one, got 15.7 for that which was pretty good i thought

[DBSV8]

captainzep said:

Impressive outcome DB.

I like the Cooper test, (actually whilst I'm gasping\staggering along beyond 6-7 minutes I fecking despise it) but its a good way of showing fitness progression when you're starting out and a nice occasional change of routine as part of normal training.

I've never done it on a treadmill, but managed something like 2750m in the 12 minutes (V02 max 50.19) a couple of years ago as a reasonably fit 33 yr old fat bloke on the (flatish) local highways and byeways. -I'd be interested to hear what distance you could cover on a track/road.

I did a bit of maths as I really wanted to break 3km ,

so I used a speed distance calculator ,to estimate times
http://www.machinehead-software.co.uk/bike/speed_d...

the disadvantage with a treadmill it takes around 25 seconds + to go from 0 to reach the required speed.Where as normal running you can go straight to your required speed

I was comfortable running at 14 km/h

So tried 17km/h for 3 mins =0.8500 km
16km/h for 3 mins =0.8000 km
14km/h for 3 mins =0.7000 km
13km/h for 2 mins =0.4333 km
19km/h for 1 mins =0.2467 km

the trouble was the last part was supposed to be a comfortable 13km/h but I realised i hadnt adjusted for the lost time reaching from 0 -17km/h so i wound it up to the maximum which nearly killed me ....

Edited by DBSV8 on Sunday 7th March 13:40

[NitroNick]

At 15.4 k/p/h you should be able to cover 3 k in 12 mins including the time taken to get up to speed.
Might be wrong. Am off now to try it.

[ewenm]

12min effort (outside on the track, pbs of 8:19 3k, 14:28 5k) would be a 4k+ run if I was reasonably fit - which gives about 78 on the Cooper Test. Can't remember what it was last time I was tested in the lab so don't know how accurate that is...

[K87]

Just worked mine out based on my 10k pace,

2406m with a VO2 of 42.5

Which puts me in the good category. Will have to try my ditance in 12 minute to see what I'm really at as obviouly I would run a fair bit quicker than my 10k pace.