Fitness test locations - July
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Of course mine is this weekend when it's going to be the hottest day of the year ...
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It beats running into the wind!
Can confirm this is absolutely true! Heat over headwind any day!
Fortunately I've completed my most stressful part of the fitness test.... I got my blood pressure certified yesterday!
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I actually love running in the heat. Did a half marathon the other week in 20+ degrees and loved it.
But as long as there's no head wind/rain, I'm happy
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Is this an old person reference?
I was on the line in January on a sub zero day with short sleeves. I wonder why people think I'm mental. Good luck to all doing fitness tests!Very annoyingly, I failed my sprints on Sunday by 0.04 seconds on 2 attempts - No leeway given due to the heat, straight up fail.
Due to holidays, I don't think I can do a retest until September now - Does anyone know how this effects mid year promotions, as I was having a good half year?
Due to holidays, I don't think I can do a retest until September now - Does anyone know how this effects mid year promotions, as I was having a good half year?
Sorry to be blunt, but the heat wouldn't affect sprint times, so not sure why they would give leeway because of it.
Theoretically it wouldn't affect mid season promotion, providing you retest and pass. The only thing it may affect is your ability to complete enough observations in the calendar year, but if you pass in September and get enough in, no reason it should affect that.
As with the observation marks etc - there has to be a cut off. With the fitness tests you get 4 attempts - which is too many - but does give you further options to get through it..
I've yet to book my test
How many sprints do we need to do this year?
I was under the impression (for some likely imagined reason) we all had to do 5 and pass them all
It had occurred to me this would make a material difference to the difficulty level of the shuttles
How many sprints do we need to do this year?
I was under the impression (for some likely imagined reason) we all had to do 5 and pass them all
It had occurred to me this would make a material difference to the difficulty level of the shuttles
You’ve imagined that one altogether!
4 from 5
Even so, 4x sprints makes a difference compared to the two we've done previously
We might think we do, but we never sprint full pelt in a game. Well, you might, You might sprint the entire 90 mins, but us normal folk really only go to 95% cos that extra 5% is expensive
I've always said the L4 test is too easy, but the extra 2 sprints will make a difference for anyone unfit
Trouble being, I was lazy in June, then got a 2 week injury in July and now it's holiday season. I'm either on the golf course or the beach for the next two weeks and can't get a BP test done so I'll drift into mid-August before dusting off my whistle. Maybe longer as appointments will all be done
Not to worry, August can be quite difficult as I'm not a lover of exercise when the temp gets above about 5 degrees
Give me a rainy, windy day, preferably with a bit of sleet in the air, or some mizzle, haar or hoar to cheer me up
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It really has made a difference. I did the test a couple of Sundays ago and at least 10 failed the sprints and weren’t then allowed to do the intervals. It was wet and slippy but no allowance was given. Now they use the timing gates there really is no hiding place with the sprints!
They used the lasers last year too. I was under 6s on one of them and I'm 51
That said, I've let myself go a bit since Newcastle won the Carabao Cup. Party is still going on, so might be eating humble pie this time around