Calculate your fitness - Coopers 12 minute running test.

Coopers running test is one of the oldest and most commonly used fitness tests. Fitness and maximal oxygen consumption is calculated on how far you can run in 12 miutes.

Experience in running, especially when it comes to disposition of a 12 minute optimum run plays a major role in the reliability of the results. Unfortunately there is no equivalent test for bicycle training. The only way to have a scientific test is in a lab where you ride a bicycle while breathing through a special mouthpiece measuring inhaled and exhaled air.

Input the distance you can run in 12 minutes:

Distance meter
Sex
Weight kg

Oxygen uptake l/min
Fitness ml/kg/min

How good is your fitness? In the form below you can see the normal distribution among common people (who do not participate in competitive sports!)

Age

Fitness (ml/min pr. kg)

Female

Low

Pretty low

Medium

Good

Very good

20-29

<28

29-34

35-43

44-48

49>

30-39

<27

28-22

34-41

42-47

48>

40-49

<25

26-31

32-40

41-45

46>

50-65

<21

22-28

29-36

37-41

42>

Male

Low

Pretty low

Medium

Good

Very good

20-29

<38

39-43

44-51

52-56

57>

30-39

<34

35-39

40-47

48-51

52>

40-49

<30

31-35

36-43

44-47

48>

50-59

<25

26-31

32-39

40-43

44>

60-69

<21

22-26

27-35

36-39

40>

When I was at my peak I could run 3.650 meters in 12 minutes, which would be equal to a fitness of 69.9

I also had a test performed at a lab while riding a bicycle and m scientific bicycle fitness was 79.2

This is still no comparison to Denmarks best marathon runner in the 80's, who was scientifically tested on a running machine, clocking out an astonishing fitness of 88.2