Indian cricket team’s score of 16.1 very low: Yo-Yo test founder

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Recently, the India cricket team head coach Ravi Shastri talked about raising the Yo-Yo test bar from 16.1 to 16.3.

Shastri’s demand seems justified as Jens Bangsbo, the man who developed the Yo-Yo test, believes India’s current score of 16.1 to determine players’ fitness level is very low.

“Level 16.1 (for Indian players) is rather low,” Bangsbo, a Denmark-based professor, was quoted as saying by Deccan Chronicle.

“It is just another application. The players are not running to exhaustion just 5 minutes and heart rate is measured. It is a submaximal version which is also a very useful test to see the development,” the 61-year-old said.

Bangsbo also talked about the need to develop the test and how he came up with it. “The Yo-Yo tests were developed in the early nineties, as the sports with intermittent exercise patterns were lacking appropriate tests. The performance is assessed as the distance covered in the test. Between each shuttle, there is a 5-og 10-second rest period and the participant finishes the test when he/she twice have not been able to complete the shuttle within the given time (speed is progressively increasing).”

 

 

 

 

[MechEng]

How is the yo-yo test done? For example @Trichromatic said in one of his posts that you need to run 1.1 km in 9 mins to score 16.1, how much distance should a player cover in how much time if he needs to achieve the padosi score of 17.4?

Edited June 27, 2018 by MechEng

[Trichromatic]

1 hour ago, MechEng said:

How is the yo-yo test done? For example @Trichromatic said in one of his posts that you need to run 1.1 km in 9 mins to score 16.1, how much distance should a player cover in how much time if he needs to achieve the padosi score of 17.4?

 

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