Yo yo test is a revolutionary test for cricket History because yo yo test change a lot of things in modern era of cricket. We will talk about how can you actually take test yo yo test for your Cricket club or also to test your fitness level. Yo yo test helps to measure the strength and endurance of players because cricket is time taking Sport and players have to play for full day so to keep away from injuries cricket boards announced that for “every player it is compulsory to clear yo yo test to play international cricket”.
History of Yo-Yo test
Who invented Yo-yo test ?
Yo yo test was invented by Jens Bangsbo in the early 1990s. He was a Danish soccer physiologist. Yo yo test is also like other fitness test in which running, Lifting, Sprinting involve. The major differences are Yo yo test is used to test the Endurance, strength, and stamina of a player rather than continuously running. It has intervals between each shuttle.
Formerly yo yo test was designed only for football player or for athletes in which comes are placed at 20 m gap or 40 m gap and perform continuous cycle of recovery and Sprinting but in recent times cricket boards have announced that it is compulsory to pass yo yo test to play for your country . This test helps to improve stamina and endurance of a player. We will read about steps to perform yo yo test in below paragraph.
How to do yo yo test
Step: 1 – There are A, b, and c three cones and the function of each cone from A to b is for recovery and from b to c have for Sprinting.
Step: 2 – The distance between A to b is 5 m and distance between b to c Is 20 m
step: 3 – Players have to sprint from b to c and if player completes sprint from b to c and c to b this complete cycle is known as One shuttle
step: 4 – You got 10 second for recovery during this phase. Players have to then walk from b to a and then a to b .
Step: 5 – Player have to run faster as there is increase ln the level . The time after every level will decrease and as increase in the level .
Step : 6 – If you didn’t complete shuttle before beep the. You got a warning. If you got three warning then you will be disqualified from yo yo test .
How Yo Yo test score calculated :-
After you complete or got there warning then your yo yo test will over. Yo yo test is organised in nca because it requires a lot of application and software. After the completion of test the system will automatically print the results. If you in 14 level and completed 2 shuttle then your score is 14.2
