Cooper-Test

The Cooper test ( named after the American sports physician Kenneth H. Cooper) is a recognized test to check the general persistence of large populations. Is a run having a duration of 12 minutes, in which the maximum in the time distance traveled is determined.

For sports runner, the test is challenging, since the distance traveled is between a pure medium or long haul. The athlete must be able to assess very well not dam up too much too soon lactate and to get into the anaerobic zone, but not to run too slow. The test is used for experienced runners also used to estimate maximal oxygen uptake.

By comparison, the world record over 5000 meters of Kenenisa Bekele is 12:37,35 min. This corresponds to around 4753 meters in 12 minutes.

There are many tables for this test. The following is one of them:

The Cooper test is, for example, in the review of handball and hockey referees in awarding marks for sports graduates, as Athletics note to schools of different German federal states and in many armies (eg the Austrian army ), the Foreign Legion ( minimum capacity 2600 m) and the German Federal Police used in the admission test. For football referee the Cooper test has now been replaced by a new Helsen test, which better simulates the actual running load of football referees. Since the school year 2005/ 06 the Cooper test for high school in Berlin is part of the four-part final exam each semester sports practice. In Baden- Württemberg the Cooper test also belongs to the mandatory program in the two-hour courses in high school and must (if G9: classes 12 and 13) in class 11 and 12 are placed each half of the school year at least once (after high school graduation scale). Even in classes including a Cooper test is performed usually every school year.

Below is the points table of the Cooper tests for runners who want to gain the Sports High School in Baden- Württemberg:

Sound http://www.schule-bw.de/unterricht/faecher/sport/6zentr_pruefg/03spabipraxis/6spabi2014/2014ausdauer.pdf have to run 1375 meters for girls only 2675 yards and 15 points for 1 point.

So do the boys for 15 points an average pace of 3:45 min / km (16 km / h), the girls 4:19 min / km (13,9 km / h). To even gain a point, the boys need a minimum pace of 6:18 min / km (9.5 km / h), the girls 8 min / km (7.5 km / h).