

Billy Daniels, from YouTube video of a pre-season training yo-yo test for Coventry City FC in 2013.Harry Grant, GWS GIANTS Academy, from Rookie Me pre-season testing in 2020,.See specific lists for cricket, association football (soccer), Australian football, rugby union, rugby league, field hockey, basketball and netball. It is usually not noted whether the yo-yo intermittent recovery test level 1 or 2 is used, so this list unfortunately may be a mixture of both (results in bold are confirmed YYIR1 results). The results are collated from various sources online, and the accuracy of the test results cannot be confirmed. Here are some of the top reliable scores found online for the yo-yo test, plus notable top scores from a range of sports and teams. The Yo-Yo IR1 Test Calculator will also give a fitness rating. We have some norm tables so you can get a rating for results from the IR1 yo-yo test.

Female team sport athletes generally score between 12 and 16.

A good score for male team sport athletes is over 20 in the test, and over 22 would be considered an excellent score. The Yo-Yo intermittent test (level 1) usually takes between 6-20 minutes to complete. Our protocol defines the final score as the level or totalĭistance covered in the last complete successful shuttle, while it is clear that some protocols listed online base the score as the level that the athlete stops the test, which is usually a couple of extra shuttles. The general procedure for conducting the yo-yo test lists the warnings for the participants and how to conclude the test. The YYIR1 is the most commonly used test, though some of the results on the table below may be from the YYIR2. I found some scores above 23 for basketball players, which seems unusually high and has been attributed to them doing the YYIR2, which starts at a higher speed so high scores can be reached quicker with less total distance run.

It is not always clear what test version is being used, or how strictly the protocol has been enforced. The reliability of the tests scores listed online may be questionable. See the Yo-Yo IR1 test table for all possible scores and the conversion between levels and distance covered. For example, reaching the stage or level 16 and then completing 3 x 40m runs at that level, would be recorded as 16.3 or 16/3.įor the IR level one yo-yo test (which is the version usually conducted), the test scores can range from 5.1 up to the highest possible score of 23.8 (though the highest recorded is 22 something). The results for the yo-yo test can be given as the time to exhaustion, the total distance covered, the level number achieved, or speed level and shuttles, though the most common way the score is reported is the speed level plus the number of shuttles.
