Talk:Cooper test

message: Is this the guy who invented the test? Kenneth H. Cooper?
http://www.cooperaerobics.com/Corporate/BioKenCooper.aspx
:Yup, it seems so. --Dyss 15:01, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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message: It seems when you look at the patterns og the figures for good, bad, average and so forth, that the Female interval for the age group 15-16 in the Average level box should be reading 1700-1999 meters in stead of 1900-1999 meters !? Can anyone confirm this? I'm not familiar with the exact figures of the Cooper Test. I was just reading the article and wondered.
BR
Erik Mortensen
It also seems that the numbers for experienced senior are very ambitious, compared to the number for 20-30 years (usually the physical peak performace years)
Jan
Er in UK 'senior men' includes these same peak years (ie post 18, pre veterancy). Senior is not, in this context, a euphemism for OAP! Linuxlad 10:11, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes? 

message: Well I did my best but I am not a native english speaker, so bare with me, and please change it so it gets more readable =)
It'd also be good if someone could find some other tables, these are taken from the internet without even mentioning the source. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.247.126.165 (talk) 23:58, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think what you are saying relates to the difference in usage of the term "athletics".  In the U.S. it refers to sport in general, and in most of the world otherwise, specifically to track and field.  As for which meaning was intended in the case of the bottom table, I hope we will hear from someone (not I) who can answer that with authority.  Clearly it refers to a group or population with an exceptional level of aerobic capacity or development.  Thanks for raising the question. Hertz1888 (talk) 01:36, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would think, since Cooper is an American, the use of the terms would be the more general American usage. I would also guess that "experienced athlete" refers to athletes in the American sense who compete at the higher levels, in the US, these would be college, professional, and Olympic competitors. The first supposition is very likely to be true, given Cooper's nationality; the latter a bit more uncertain. Wschart (talk) 13:41, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: What is actually meant by „experienced athletes“ and where is this table used? According to the differences (3000 metres is very good for „athletes“, but bad for „experienced athletes“), it seems to be some national team (or primary schools in Kenya)... --Zik2 (talk) 23:06, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Experienced athletes 

message: There is no source for the table with the distances, and the introductory text suggests that it's an example.
Could anybody provide a sourced, reputable set of values, such as official figures from the military, or a national school system?
Thanks 78.134.45.131 (talk) 15:57, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of the distances table 

message: Added "practical" section to show practical use of test. It works fine with a small cohort on a track or individuals on a treadmill, but is unsuited to processing large amounts of people.
For the USMC+USArmy your pay+promotion is dependant on your performance so getting an accurate measure is important. Invigilation is very hard because tracks aren't calibrated down to the last metre.
A mere "supervisor" is somebody who would ensure that they ran round the track. An "invigilator" is one who would ensure that they ran exactly the distance they claimed.
But as it says in the article a "reverse-Cooper" can be easily run with a few PTIs and a stopwatch. So one can easily do the whole battalion in an afternoon. Battalion = ~300-1200 soldiers. Without electronic timing a timekeeper can be overwhelmed with finishing athletes so the testing is done in waves, typically by company or even platoon to keep the numbers small enough.
Frontmech (talk) 11:55, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Practical 

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message: US Marines expect you to be faster tha the world fastest man over 5000 meters...?
3 miles in 12 minutes? Or they run 3 miles at what ever time the USMAC decides? Clarification and convertion to only KM or miles maybe?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.66.100.152 (talk) 19:57, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
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message: Dear all,
"For comparison the 5000 meters world record of Kenenisa Bekele is 12:37.35.[4] This means that in 12 minutes he would reach a distance of around 4750 meters."
Quote from the article
That's not accurate, because for twice the distance you need:
T2=T1×(D2÷D1)1.06
Another way to say this is, would he reach (6 minutes) 4750m/2= 2375m?. No he would cover more distance than that.
See also here: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Riegel
Could pls someone confirm my analysis?
--Da Vinci Nanjing (talk) 13:52, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sports science isn't my strong suit so I can't really comment. Still, I'm not sure how this approach improves the article. We should be collating publicly-discussed benefits and drawbacks of the Cooper test model vs other models like Riegel's (e.g.), not doing our own calculations to highlight issues. The purpose of Wikipedia is to gather existing knowledge, not create entirely new knowledge. SFB 13:40, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The distance after 12 minutes for the (current) wr holder in the 5000m 

message: The test is spelled in two different ways: cooper test / Cooper test 80.208.67.49 (talk) 15:07, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cooper spelling