Men's Health Australia

CARDIO THE ZERO UPGRADE -RUNNING

BLEEP TILL YOU DROP

The multi-stage fitness test – better known in school sports halls as the dreaded “bleep test” – is a system devised to estimate your aerobic capacity. But sub in a barrage of bodyweight moves and it becomes a cardiovascular conditioning tool that requires little more than a couple of square metres of floor space in your lunch hour.

The test involves following an audio recording of a set of timed “bleeps” (which can be found on iTunes, Spotify or), working each time the audio sounds. In this case, that means performing one rep of each bodyweight movement.

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