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The King of Sprint Tests

 

 

This is the king of the sprint tests. When an athlete accomplishes the requirements below, rest assured, a coach can comfortably announce, "This man is in shape!"

 

Field set up: 

Start your sprint from the 20 yard line and sprint 40 yards. Once finished walk to the opposite 20 yard line and sprint back.

 


 



 

GOAL:

Your goal is to run 10 sprints within 5/10ths of your lifetime best forty. The rest interval is 20 seconds between each sprint.

 

 

How a timer counts the rest interval between sprints: As soon as the athlete crosses the forty yard line the rest interval begins. Immediately the timer records the time and begins counting 20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-hand-on -the- line-2-1- go.

The athlete must achieve all ten sprints to be considered fit, anything less than ten is failure.

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

Sounds tough. I'll keep this one in mind. Thanks for sharing!
Posted @ Thursday, March 11, 2010 10:03 PM by Rob Taylor
Having experienced this great test as a college player in the 1970's and having administered to several generations of college players I can say the test is fair and accurate.
Posted @ Friday, March 12, 2010 9:41 AM by Jim Lyall
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