
Here is the complete listing of all fitness tests in the Topend Sports database, listed
in alphabetical order with also the top 10 most popular tests for your convenience. There are nearly 400 individual tests.
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List of all Tests (alphabetical)
- 1-RM Tests
- 1RM Bench Press
- 10m Beep Test
- 10m Shuttle Walk Test
- 2 Hop Jump
- 3/4 court sprint
- 3-Cone Drill (NFL)
- 3 Hop test
- 5m Multiple Shuttle — 30 seconds of shuttles, increasing by 5m over a 25m course.
- 15m PACER test — a shorter version of the shuttle run ‘beep’ test, a maximal aerobic test which involves running back and forth over 15m in time to recorded beeps.
- 15m Bleep Test — the shorter version of the standard 20m shuttle beep test.
- 20 meter Shuttle Run Test (beep, bleep) — the standard multi-stage shuttle run ‘beep’ test, a maximal aerobic test which involves running back and forth over 20m in time to recorded beeps.
- 20 Yard Agility — run 5 yards to one side, 10 yards back the other way, finishing with 5 yards back to the start line (touching lines with a foot).
- 20m 5-10-5 agility shuttle — run 5 meters to one side, 10 meters back the other way, finishing with 5 meters back to the start line.
- 30m Flying Sprint
- 30-15 Intermittent Fitness Test
- 100 Yard Shuttle
- 300 meter run
- 400m run test
- 300-yard Shuttle
- 505 Agility Test
- 800m Run Test
- 1200m Shuttle Test
- 90/90 (AKE) hamstring test
- Abalakov Jump (ABK) — Bosco
- Abdominal Curl — NCF
- Abdominal Endurance Tests
- Abdominal Strength Test (7 Stage)
- Abdominal Strength Test (4 Level)
- Abdominal test 1 (Kraus-Webber)
- Abdominal test 2 (Kraus-Webber)
- Abdominal test 3 (Kraus-Webber)
- Ab Strength Test — straight leg
- Adiposity Index
- Aero Test
- Agility – AAHPERD for seniors
- Agility Test for AFL
- Air-Displacement Plethysmography
- Alternate hand wall toss test
- Andersen Test
- Apley’s Shoulder Scratch Test — shoulder movement measured by reaching behind to touch the opposite scapula.
- Arm Crank
- Arm Curl
- Arm Length
- Arm Span
- Arrowhead Agility Drill
- Assistant Referee Intermittent Endurance Test — an intermittent yo-yo type test involving forwards and sideways running.
- Astrand Bicycle Ergometer Test
- Astrand Treadmill Test — running at 5mph with a 2.5% increase in gradient every two minutes, until exhaustion.
- Back Scratch — how close can the hands can be brought together behind the back.
- Back Strength – isometric
- Back strength upper (Kraus-Webber)
- Back strength lower (Kraus-Webber)
- Balance Bass Test
- Balance Beam Test
- Balance Board
- Balance – Flamingo
- Balance One Leg Stand Sobriety Test
- Balance – Standing
- Balance Stick Test
- Balance – Stork test
- Balke Test (treadmill)
- Balke Test (15 min run)
- Balke Step Test
- Ball Throw for Distance
- Balsom Run Agility Test
- Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
- Basketball Throw — two-handed push power with the back against a wall
- Beam Walk test
- Beep Test — 20m shuttle run test
- Beep Test — 10m shuttles
- Beep Test — modified beep test for referees
- Beep Test for the Blind
- Beep Test on Ice — incremental 1 minute shuttles with 30 seconds rest
- Bench Press – Maximum
- Bench Press Beep Test
- Bench Press (Brockport)
- Bench Press – %bodyweight
- Bench Press Test (NHL)
- Bench Press – 1RM
- Bench Press Max Power
- Bench Pull
- Bent Arm Hang — Eurofit
- Bicep Curl Max
- Bioelectric Impedance — a measure the resistance of body tissues to the flow of a small electrical signal, and from that the proportion of body fat is calculated
- Birtwell 40m Shuttle
- Block Transfer
- Blood Lactate Testing
- Blood test
- Body Mass — a measure of a person’s weight
- Body Mass Index (BMI) — calculated by taking a person’s weight
and dividing by their height squared - Body Surface Area (BSA)
- Box Drill
- Broca Index (ideal weight)
- Bruce Protocol Test
- Burpee Test – participants attempt the maximum number of burpees in a set time period
- Canadian Home Fitness Test
- Chair Stand — stand up repeatedly from a chair for 30 seconds
- Chester Step Test
- Chester Treadmill Police Walk Test — walking at 6km/hr on a treadmill, increasing gradient by 3% every 2 minutes.
- Chester Treadmill Police Run Test — run at 10.4 km/hr on a treadmill, increasing the gradient every 2 minutes.
- Chester Treadmill Test — walking at 6.2km/hr on a treadmill, increasing the gradient by 3% every 2 minutes.
- Color Blindness Testing
- Computed Tomography (CT Scan)
- Conconi Test
- Cone Drill (Agility)
- Cooper 12 minute test
- Coordination – Wall Catch
- Counter Movement Jump (CMJ) — Bosco
- Cricket Sprint Test
- Critical Swim Speed
- Crunches (PFT)
- Cunningham & Faulkner anaerobic test
- Curl Ups — President’s Challenge
- Curl Ups (partial) — President’s Challenge
- Curl-Up Test — FitnessGram
- Curl Up Beep — NHL
- Curl-Up Test — US Navy PRT
- Cycle 2km — 2 kilometer bicycle time trial
- Cycle 40m sprint — fastest time on a bicycle over 40m
- Cycle Ergometer 5km
- Cycling Repeat Sprint Test — involving 5 x 6 second efforts performed every 30 seconds.
- Cycling VO2max Test
- Deadlift Repetition Max
- Devine Formula – calculationfor determining ideal body weight.
- Dips
- DNA Fitness Test
- Drop Jump — a test of leg strength and power which requires the athlete to drop off a box and immediately jump as high as they can
- Drop Jump (Bosco) — the athlete jumps after dropping from heights of 20 cm, 40 cm, 60 cm, 80 cm and 100 cm.
- Drop Jump (Incremental) — the athlete jumps after a drop from a series of heights, starting from a 30cm box and working upwards to a 75cm box.
- Drug Testing
- Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA)
- Dumbbell Press — press overhead a 15lb (6.8kg) dumbbell as many times as possible while sitting in a chair.
- Dynamic Yo-Yo Test — a modified yo-yo test designed specifically for football referees.
- Edgren Side-Step Test
- Edgren sidestep test (Modified)
- Elliptical Trainer Test (PRT)
- Endurance Jump (30 Seconds) — jump across a hurdle as many times as possible in 30 seconds.
- Endurance Run / Walk Test
- Extended (Straight) Arm Hang – hanging from an overhead bar with straight arms for as long as possible.
- Eye Dominance Test
- FIFA Change of Direction Ability (CODA) — forwards and sideways running over 8-10 meters.
- FIFA Interval Test 1 — 6 x 40m sprints with 60 seconds recovery between bouts.
- FIFA Interval Test 2 — alternating 75m run and 25m walk, repeating this for 10 laps.
- Figure-of-Eight Agility
- FIT Interval test for soccer
- Flamingo Balance Test
- Flexed Arm Hang
- Flexed Arm Hang (PFT)
- Flexed Arm Hang (IPFT)
- Flexibility — calf muscle
- Flexibility — hamstring test
- Flexometer
- Floor Touch (Kraus-Webber)
- Footeval Test — a football (soccer) specific test with one minute intervals incorpoarting ball dribbling.
- Gacon Test- an intermittent test with 45 seconds of running and 15 seconds rest, with the running distance incrementally increasing.
- Girths – general, waist, head, neck, arm-relaxed, arm-flexed, forearm, wrist, chest, shoulder, hip, thigh (gluteal), thigh (mid), calf and ankle
- Goniometer
- Groin Flexibility
- Groningen Walk Test
- Handgrip Strength Test
- Hand Span
- Harvard Step Test
- Heart Rate Maximizer – involving repeated jumping jacks over two minutes
- Heart Rate Variability
- Height — sitting
- Height — standing
- Henman Shuttle Anaerobic Test
- Hexagon agility test
- Horizontal Pull-Up Test — a variation of the hanging pull-up, made easier as the whole body weight does not need to be lifted.
- Hurdle Jump Agility — 45 seconds of two-legged jumping over a hurdle.
- Hydrostatic Weighing
- Illinois Agility test — agility run involving 180 degree turns and slalom running
- Illinois Agility Test (Modified) — a modification of the standard Illinois test which removes some stright sprinting.
- Illinois Agility Test (Short) — a modification of the standard Illinois test which reduces the distance covered.
- Ins and Outs
- Interval Shuttle Run Test
- Isokinetic Strength Tests
- J.A.M. Intermittent Test
- Jumps Decathlon
- Knee Height Measure
- Lane Agility Drill
- Lateral Side-Bending Flexibility
- Lat Pulldown 1RM Test — one-repetition max test using the lat pulldown exercise
- Length (Recumbent)
- Leg Extension
- Leg Raises
- Leg Strength – isometric
- Leg Tuck
- Loughborough Intermittent Shuttle Test — intermittent and variable shuttle test designed to replicate the demands of a football match.
- Lung Function
- Mader Test — determination of aerobic and anaerobic thresholds using blood lactate measures during an incremental exercise test.
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Margaria Kalamen Power Test
- MAS Run
- Max Touch
- Maximal Anaerobic Running Test
- Maximal Oxygen Consumption (VO2max)
- Medicine Ball Throw – Seated
- Medicine Ball Throw – Standing
- Medicine Ball Throw – Overhead
- Medicine Ball Throw – Underhand
- Minnesota Rate of Manipulation Test
- Multiple Single-Leg Hop-Stabilization Test (MSLHST)
- Multistage Hurdle Jump Test
- Muscle Fiber RM Test
- Muscle Mass Calculation
- Near Infrared Interactance
- Non-Exercise Fitness Test
- PACER Test – a version of the 20m shuttle run ‘beep’ test, a maximal aerobic test which involves running back and forth over 20m in time to recorded beeps.
- Partial Curl Ups
- Peterson Equation (ideal weight)
- Phosphate Recovery Test (PR)
- Pinch Grip Test
- Plank Test
- Plate Tapping Test
- Polar Fitness Test
- Ponderal Index
- Posture Test
- Power Ball Chest Launch
- Power Ball – Rotational Throw
- Power ball – Overhead Throw (backwards)
- Power ball – Overhead Throw (kneeling)
- Power Clean 1RM Max – maximum weight lifted using the power clean exercise
- Pull-Up Test – general description of pull-up tests
- Pull-Up (Modified) – with the body horizontal, grasp a bar set just out of reach, and pull up towards the bar
- Pull Up (NAPFA)
- Pull Up Test (PFT)
- Punching Power
- Punching Speed
- Push-up Tests — general description of push-up tests
- Push Up (Maximum) — maximum numbe rof push-ups
- Push-Up (Presidents) — a cadence push-up test at 20 per minute.
- Push Ups (APFT) — most push-ups in two minutes
- Push Up Beep Test (NHL) — cadence test, at 25/min
- Push-Up (Isometric) — the starting ‘up’ position is held for as long as possible.
- push-up test (PRT) — most push-ups in one minute
- Push Up (Chair) — easier option by raising the upper body using a chair
- Push-Up (Seated) — extend the arms and raise the body out of a chair, and hold this position for as long as possible (part of the Brockport Protocol).
- push-up test (Modified) — includes a clap behind the back while in the ‘down’ position and a touch from one hand to the other in the ‘up’ position.
- Push-Up Test (at home) — a simple push-up test that can be done at home.
- Pushup (Hand Release) — the hands are lifted off the ground while in the ‘down’ position.
- PWC170 Test
- Quadrant Jump Agility
- Quadrathlon
- Queens College Step Test
- Quick Feet
- Quick Strike Boxing Test
- Radar for Speed
- RAST Anaerobic sprint test
- Reaction – Batak Test
- Reaction Light Board
- Reaction Stick ruler test
- Reaction Time
- Reaction Time (AFL)
- Reaction Time – Groningen
- Repeat Sprint Ability Test — 10 x 20m sprints, starting every 20 seconds.
- Repetitive Jump (RJ) — Bosco
- RESTQ-76 athlete questionnaire
- Rockport Walk Test
- Rowing Beep Test — incremental test performed on a rowing ergometer
- Rowing Ergo – 500m
- Rowing Ergo – 2km
- Rowing Ergo – 5km
- Ruffier Squat Test – measure heart rate before and after performing 30 squats in 45 seconds
- Run-a-Three Cricket Test
- Run Tests for time or distance
- Run Tests for time: 6 minute , 9-minute
- Run tests for distance: 1 km (IPFT), 1.5km, 1.5 mile (PRT), 1.6 km (1 mile), 2.4 km, 2-Mile (APFT), 3 km, 3-Mile (PFT), 5 km
- Schober Test
- Sharkey (Forestry) Step Test
- Shot Put Back Throw
- Shoulder Circumduction
- Shoulder Flexibility — lift a stick over the head to behind the back, maintaining
the handgrip on the object. - Shoulder Reach Flexibility — can the hands can be brought within 5cm behind the back.
- Shoulder Rotation: using an Acuflex
- Shoulder-Neck Mobility
- Shoulder Stretch — can the hands can be brought together behind the back
- Shoulder Width
- Shuttle Cross Pick-Up
- Shuttle Reactive (NBA)
- Shuttle 10m Agility
- Shuttle 10 x 5m — agility run back and forth over 5 meters, for a total of 50m.
- Shuttle – 20 Yard (NFL) — running 5 yards, back 10 yards, and back again 5 yards, touching the lines with a hand.
- Shuttle – 30 Ft (President’s)
- Shuttle – 60 Yard (NFL)
- Side Ramp for core stability
- Side-Step Test
- Sit-Up Test (test
at home) - Sit Ups (APFT)
- Sit-Up Test (Dynamic)
- Sit Ups 30 secs (Eurofit)
- Sit and Reach Test
- Sit and Reach — backsaver
- Sit & Reach — Chair
- Sit and Reach (PRT)
- Sit and Reach — modified
- Sit & Reach (test
at home) - Sitting Height
- Sitting-Rising Test (SRT)
- Skinfold measurement — calipers are used to measure the thickness of the skin at a range of sites around the body.
- Soda Pop Coordination Test
- Softball Throw Test – throw a softball for maximum distance
- Sprint tests (30 yards, 20m, 30m, 40m, 40 yards, 50 m, 60 yards, 60m)
- Sprint Fatigue Test
- Sprint Recovery Test (AFL) — six 30m sprints, with each sprint starting at 20 second intervals.
- Sprint from Home to First Base

- Squat 1RM — maximum lift for one squat repetition.
- Squat Jump (SJ) — Bosco
- Squat Jump + extra weight — Bosco
- Squat Test (test
at home) — maximum number of squats performed with no weight - Squat (Single Leg) — functional leg strength test in which participants squat down to about 60° knee flexion.
- Standing balance test
- Standing Height – standard height measurement
- Standing Long (Broad) Jump Test
- Standing Reach
- Standing Triple Jump – maximum hop, step and jump distance from a standing start.
- Star Excursion Balance Test
- Step in Place aerobic test
- Step tests — Harvard, YMCA, Queens College, Balke, Sharkey, Chester, home
- Stick Flip Coordination Test
- Stork Balance Stand Test
- Straight Leg Raise flexibility test.
- Strength Push and Pull Tests (NHL)
- Sweat Analysis
- Sweat Loss Measurement
- Sweat Rate
- Swimming Beep Test
- Swimming Beep Test #2 (Williams)
- Swimming Shuttle Test
- Swimming Step Test — 7 x 200m swim step test used to monitor training and improvements in aerobic conditioning.
- Swim Test (100m) — swim 100m as fast as you can
- Swim Test (450m/500yd) (PRT)
- Swimming 1 km time trial — swim 1km as fast as you can
- Swimming VO2max Test — VO2max test conducted in water
- Swolf — a measure of swimming efficiency
- Thomas Test — modified
- Toe Touch
- Total Body Electrical Conductivity (TOBEC)
- Total Body Potassium (TBK)
- Total Body Protein (TBP)
- Track Test — University of Montreal Test
- Tri-level Anaerobic Tests — 10 &
30-second tests - Tri-level Aerobic Test
- Trunk Lift
- Trunk Rotation simple flexibility test
- Trunk Rotation: Acuflex II
- T-Test for agility — running a T shape course involving forward, lateral, and backwards running.
- Up and Go 8-foot for agility
- Urine – color testing
- Urine specific gravity — using a refractometer
- VAMEVAL Test
- V-Sit Reach Flexibility
- Vertical Jump
- Vision Testing
- VO2max Test
- VO2max Test (Treadmill)
- Vmax
- Waist to Height Ratio (WHtR)
- Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR)
- Walk and Turn Field Sobriety Test
- Walk Tests: 1/2 mile, 1 Mile, 2 km, 6 minute, Rockport 1 mile,
- Wall Catch
- Wall Sit
- Wall Squat
- Water Polo
Intermittent Shuttle Test - Weight – measuring body mass
- Wheelchair Aerobic Test
- Wheelchair Multistage Field Test (MFT)
- Wheelchair Shuttle Ride Test (SRT)
- Wingate Cycle Test
- Wingate Arm Crank
- Y Balance Test
- YMCA Cycle ergometer submax test
- Yo-Yo Endurance Test
- Yo-Yo Intermittent Tests
- Zig-Zag Agility Test
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