Cooper had seen it on an excursion to Austria. Political and military leaders knew Americans were trailing our European peers in fitness. The top female runners would get somewhere between seven and eight.Ĭooper invented his famous test while working for the Air Force. Thomas Aquinas High School, the varsity male runners would get eight to nine laps. By middle age, five laps for a woman or six laps for a man would be considered excellent.Īt my St. For women, basically subtract one lap from each range-four laps is fair, five is good and six is excellent. ![]() Anything over 51 is excellent.įor adult men in their 20s and 30s, between five laps is a “fair” 33.8, six is a “good” 42.6 and seven is an “excellent” 51.6. (It can also be reversed, with athletes running for 1.5 or two miles and the time indicating VO2 max.) A VO2 max between about 34 and 42 is considered fair and 43 and 51 good. The number completed acts as an indicator of one’s VO2 max, or the maximum amount of oxygen one can use during vigorous exercise. The premise of the Cooper Test is simple: Finish as many laps as possible in 12 minutes. We had to take that darn 12-minute test so many times.” At a recent fundraising event he cohosted with Laura Bush, author John Grisham approached and told him, “I hate you. People talk to him about the torture of the 12-minute run all the time, all over. ![]() China recently hired him to whip its 300 million obese citizens into shape. Bush and collecting data on the fitness levels of more than 100,000 people. He is 86 and still works full time at Cooper Clinic in Dallas, seeing patients as famous as George W. When he speaks, Cooper sounds like a mix between drill sergeant and historian, reeling off dates and results from decades-old studies and rarely stopping for air. “I would never have predicted it,” Cooper says, reflecting on the surprising longevity of his test. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Cooper Test’s publication, and in that time the 12-minute run has been used by championship World Cup, NFL, and college basketball teams, FIFA referees, police recruits, and thousands upon thousands of high school and amateur athletes worldwide, many of whom, like high school me, have no idea how the test came to be and what makes it an ideal conditioning tool. He’s less known for creating the 12-minute run, or, as others call it, the Cooper Test. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to playĬooper has achieved international fame for inspiring the modern exercise movement through his book Aerobics. And all of the pain stemmed from an invention by Dr. I was enduring the same torture as Pele did as a soccer star, as Michael Jordan did as a college basketball player. The 12-minute run was and is perhaps the world’s most effective and popular conditioning test. I assumed for years my coach had concocted this excruciating workout. Whether you were one of the fastest or slowest runners, the 12-minute run’s induced misery did not discriminate. When Wilson shouted into a megaphone to stop, even the well-conditioned few were hunched over and heaving. ![]() The local police had their training center atop a hill nearby, and, below it, our track felt like a jail, runners trapped, splayed across the lanes, many walking after a few minutes. My high school coach, Greg Wilson, would bring dozens of students to a local track in our Kansas City suburb at 6 a.m., click his stopwatch and force us to run around the oval, lap after lap, as many as we could finish. Once you've done it, you'll have to start the whole game over.We always did the 12-minute run on the third day of cross country practice, a sure sign the fun of summer had ended. Unfortunately, there's no going back with this ending. This will all play out on its own, leading to the credits. Just let him talk to you during this scene and don’t hit anything else. He’ll be shocked you’ve read the book, but will tell you that he knows of a way to help you forget about everything. When the interaction between you and the father unfolds, you can click on the book (which is on the shelf behind you) to repeat the passage to him rather than hitting the other dialogue options. In order for this ending to play out, though, you’ll have to have interacted with the meditation book your wife reads a couple of times, up until you get a specific quote from her. ![]() This will lead to another cutscene between you and the father. Grab the watch from the vent there and drag the big hand back up to two minutes before 12, then just stare at it. Do the same if you’re back in the loop post-cutscene. Make your way to the locked apartment and use the key from your inventory to unlock it. You can access this ending once you’re back on your feet after the first cutscene with the father or by hitting continue from the main menu after the credits roll.īy hitting ‘Continue’ from the main menu, you’ll be led into a hallway with no other doors but your own up ahead.
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