On average I’ll do some sort of training 2-3 times a week which might consist of a couple of bike rides for two-three hours each, or a couple of 1 hour runs or a combination of a ride and a run and I’ll walk the dog most days. Just for the record, I’m in my late 30’s, been involved in sports all my life and try to keep pretty active. Here in Australia, our top Australian Rules Footballers would get somewhere in the vicinity of level 15 or 16 and maybe 17 which is considered a top effort.Īs mentioned at the start of this post, being the curious type and never having done a beep test before I thought I would give it a go to see what level I could get to. The bottom line is that it would take a super human to achieve this and congratulations to anybody that has completed it but personally I find it hard to believe. To my knowledge there has never been anybody who was able to fully complete the 21 levels that make up the beep test, however there are rumours going around that there have actually been some athletes complete all levels.
The question is, how long can you last before you reach your cardio exhaustion point. The fact that the beep test is the most commonly used test to measure a persons cardiovascular levels and VO2 max (maximum oxygen uptake) should be indication enough that this is a gruelling test for anybody that attempts it. So no matter whether you’re super fit or even a couch potato, everybody that does the beep test will end up at the same point, out of breath and at the limits of their cardio vascular capacity.
In actual fact the beep test does not even care anything about you! I found out recently after attempting The Beep Test for the first time that it does not discriminate. No matter what your fitness level, the beep test doesn’t care!