Cooper Test for Children

Procedure

Form pairs and start with a good warm-up. Person 1 starts running and person 2 writes down how many laps are completed. When the twelve minutes are over, person 1 stops where he or she is at that moment. Person 2 measures the completed distance: The number of completed laps plus the distance of the final lap. You can read what the total number of completed meters means for your VO2 Max in the table developed for this.

Steps

1. Set up a course of ± 400 meters;
2. Start with a warm-up of approximately two or three minutes at low intensity;
3. Start with the test and run as far as you can in twelve minutes;
4. Measure the remaining distance and add this to your laps;
5. Stop after twelve minutes at the place where you are at that moment;
6. Search for the value belonging to the covered distance in the table below.