Definition of cardiovascular endurance - The body's ability to deliver oxygen to muscles while they are working. Essentially, it is the heart and lungs delivering energy to a body in motion without undue fatigue
How to conduct the test
This test requires the athlete to run as far as possible in 12 minutes.
1. The athlete warms up for 10 minutes
2. The assistant gives the command “GO”, starts the stopwatch and the athlete commences the test
3. The assistant keeps the athlete informed of the remaining time at the end of each lap (400m)
4. The assistant blows the whistle when the 12 minutes has elapsed and records the distance the athlete covered to the nearest 10 metres
Advantages
Disadvantages
How to conduct the test
This test requires the athlete to run as far as possible in 12 minutes.
1. The athlete warms up for 10 minutes
2. The assistant gives the command “GO”, starts the stopwatch and the athlete commences the test
3. The assistant keeps the athlete informed of the remaining time at the end of each lap (400m)
4. The assistant blows the whistle when the 12 minutes has elapsed and records the distance the athlete covered to the nearest 10 metres
Advantages
- Large groups can be tested at once and it is a very cheap and simple test to perform.
- Cheap and simple test to perform.
Disadvantages
- Practice and pacing is required, and performance on this test can be affected greatly by motivation.
- Keeping track of a person’s lap number can be challenging when there are a lot of people so creating ‘pairs’ and having them count each others laps and then running the test a second time for the other person in the ‘pair’ is a good option.