Conconi Test (Running)

Procedure

There are two possible types of procedures. One procedure is based on a distance and increases the resistance based on the distance completed.  The other procedure is based on time and increases the resistance as more time lapses.

Steps

Procedure time

1. Start the warming up of approximately ten minutes at low intensity;
2. The test starts at a low intensity. Children (4-5 km/h), untrained (5-7 km/h), athletes (8-12 km/h);
3. After this, the resistance is increased every minute with a maximum of eight heart beats;
4. Both the speed and the heart frequency are continuously registered during the test;
5. At one point, the heart rate can no longer be called linear. This point is considered the threshold. Try to go on for a bit after this;

Procedure distance

1. Start the warming up of approximately ten minutes at low intensity;
2. The test starts by running 200 meters at a reasonably high speed;
3. The resistance is then increased every 200 meters. This process is repeated until the test person can no longer go faster;
4. Both the speed and the heart frequency are continuously registered during the test;
5. At one point, the heart rate can no longer be called linear. This point is considered the threshold. Try to go on for a bit after this.

Results

Process the measured heart rate and the accompanying speed in a graph. Then look at when the heart rate slows compared to the speed. This is seen as the threshold. The data of a fictitious athlete are processed in the table below. The red line indicates the threshold. In this case, the line no longer shows a linear increase at a running speed of 15 km/h.