It is an extremely simple test, which requires minimal equipment and demands the athlete(s) to run continuously until volitional exhaustion.
This test was originally developed for adults in 1982 by Leger and Lambert (2) and then modified later in 1988 for children, by reducing the stages from 2 minutes to 1 minute by Leger et al. The multistage fitness test, otherwise known as the beep test, bleep test, or the 20 m shuttle run test is a continuous sub-maximal test which has become the most recognised tool for measuring aerobic power (1). What is the Multistage Fitness (Beep) test? Despite becoming the most popular test for measuring aerobic power, recent research has reported that this test is not a valid predictor of VO₂ max – unlike the findings reported in previous research.
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