health Fitness Pacer Test

[Venomous 18,813]

No, not the meme 

Did you take this test in your PE class in middle school and/or high school? I had to take it in middle school and I maybe ran 11 rounds.

One boy ran so many rounds that he actually vomited mid sprint lol

Here is the meme anyway

[Allen 1,371]

Yes, I did this pacer test. Back in high school during my senior year, I ran like 38 rounds for my physical running challenge with my fellow gym boys.

Edited April 25, 2020 by Allen

[SharpWit 2,472]

As far as I am aware, I took the pacer test every year of my public education except for junior and senior since I only took the PE credits required. Don't remember my score, definitely made it to like the last 25% at least. I've always been one of the faster kids but that only comes in a short spurt so not exactly well suited for extended repetition. Known a few people who made it to 50 I think which was might have been considered the end? Too long ago to say for sure.

My girlfriend made me feel old and young at the same time by telling me she remembered when they first introduced the pacer. Yikes!

Edit: Initial gut instinct turned out to be right. Turns out the pacer wasn't introduced to her till she was already in middle school, and the test was created in 1982.

Edited April 25, 2020 by SharpWit

[Fluttershyfan94 5,738]

Pacer test as in beep test? If I remember I got to most level 12 or might have been level 12 I know it was level 11 usually though had often achieved eleven almost twelve which is amazing as I have astmha though also very hyper so I would continue until literally I would simply die. Everyone were usually surprised by me even being able to.

Every level has a shuttle or a round, so level 12 is 118 rounds or shuttles cumulatively. That said though I am really healthy and trained my body for cardio as it helps astmha to require less oxygen. 

Edited April 25, 2020 by Fluttershyfan94

[DixonTheAdversary 1,631]

I did the Pacer test in Elementary and Middle school. My high school didn't do it, which I was thankful for. The lowest I got was 5 (The first time I did it, in like 4th grade), The highest I got was 37.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

My highest was 66. I think I got it freshman year of high school, but maybe it was sophomore year. They kind of blur together in my memories sometimes.

[ExplosionMare 18,007]

I had to take it all throughout middle school and a bit of high school. I always hated it cause I would be a few laps short of my expected goal. 

[Technoblade 112]

i did it last year when i was in year eight. i don't remember what score i got but i got the highest out of everyone in my class

[SparklingSwirls 21,261]

Oh noooo not the pacer 

We did it all three years in middle school. I have no idea what numbers I got, maybe around 40 or 50? 

[Splashee 28,537]

8 hours ago, Bakugou Is My Man ❤ said:

No, not the meme 

Did you take this test in your PE class in middle school and/or high school? I had to take it in middle school and I maybe ran 11 rounds.

One boy ran so many rounds that he actually vomited mid sprint lol

Never heard of it

 

Any videos or picture to describe what it is?

[Octavia Heartstrings 28,406]

Not the Pacer. Anything but the Pacer. 

I had to do that in middle school, and it was the most pointless "exercise" I've ever done. I think my best score was 51. That was before I started running cross country.

[Cagey 4,205]

I was terrible. My best score was the lowest in the class. 

[Moonlight 7,279]

middle school and i hated it... i was maybe the 3rd lowest in the class? something like that, i did around 10-20 rounds maybe...it's awful, wild how many rounds some people went

[Thuja 3,658]

What's the Pacer test?  I've never had to do it.

[TotallyNotNyx 15,563]

I remember that, I did a few times over the years. I always did crap tbh. I just couldn't be asked to bother, so I pretended to be tired, just so that I could get out of it early 

[TBD 17,228]

All I will say is back in my elementary and middle it was hell for me. I was basically the worst out of all my classmate. I remember my gym teacher won't allow me to leave early and keep pushing me to keep going.. I mean, this is basically me right here

I literally feel like i was dying and it's feel like it will never end. (the only time I don't mind "running" if it's sport related) I remember as a "punishment" for being the lowest my gym teacher wants me to grub all the cones. While everyone goes on their merry way inside, leaving me  carrying all the cones by myself under a hot sun. I remember coming inside and saw everyone just chilling...

 

Now I love running and I feel I can go for miles and miles. How about that?  

[Venomous 18,813]

2 hours ago, Thuja said:

What's the Pacer test?  I've never had to do it.

5 hours ago, Super Splashee said:

Any videos or picture to describe what it is?

I tried to find a video but they all suck.

In short, you run back and forth across the gym floor as many times as you can before you become too tired to stop. There is a radio that will beep to indicate when you need to run again and it speeds up as time goes on. Once you stop, you’re out. It’s a difficult exercise, as there can be at least 75 laps.

[Thuja 3,658]

1 minute ago, Bakugou Is My Man ❤ said:

I tried to find a video but they all suck.

In short, you run back and forth across the gym floor as many times as you can before you become too tired to stop. There is a radio that will beep to indicate when you need to run again and it speeds up as time goes on. Once you stop, you’re out. It’s a difficult exercise, as there can be at least 75 laps.

What's the point of doing it?  Is it like standardized testing but for PE???

[Venomous 18,813]

16 minutes ago, Thuja said:

What's the point of doing it?  Is it like standardized testing but for PE???

I believe it is a sort of standardized testing. I had to do this exercise all 3 years of middle school and I don’t know anyone personally who didn’t have to take it in those years as well so that’s why I think it is.

Also, here is a better description of the exercise:

”The PACER Test, or Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run, is an aerobic capacity test used by FitnessGram. According to the FitnessGram instructions, it is a 20-meter shuttle run, where students run back and forth as many times as they can between two markers, using an audio CD to guide their pace.”

I also found a somewhat decent video. Mind you that these are young children so it may not look as intense but I promise you it is. Imagine having to run back and forth up to 75 times with no breaks.

 

[Treeglow Flicker 13,015]

Never had to do that. Our PE lessons just consisted of dumping us outside in freezing cold weather, wearing nothing but t-shirts and shorts and making us play sports. Which I hated. Well I say hated. What I meant is that I loathed it. Well I say loathed. But what I really mean is that I would rather have been trapped on a spaceship while being hunted down by a hostile alien entity with more teeth than the entire Osmond family.

Edited April 25, 2020 by Treeglow Flicker

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

Heh, I was homeschooled so I never had to worry about this...not that I would have been terrible at it. 

[Cyclone 1066 3,616]

1 minute ago, Lucky Bolt said:

Heh, I was homeschooled so I never had to worry about this...not that I would have been terrible at it. 

Nobody thought they'd be terrible at it but when it gets to the 50th repetition people dropped like flys. Longest in my school was I think 82 reps. I did 70.

I thought I'd do better but it gets to the point where you have like 2 seconds to run the distance of a basketball court and that's after having run the court 60 plus times.

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

2 minutes ago, Cyclone1066 said:

Nobody thought they'd be terrible at it but when it gets to the 50th repetition people dropped like flys. Longest in my school was I think 82 reps. I did 70.

I thought I'd do better but it gets to the point where you have like 2 seconds to run the distance of a basketball court and that's after having run the court 60 plus times.

         

[Cyclone 1066 3,616]

Just now, Lucky Bolt said:

         

We'll go to a park and do it some day.

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

Just now, Cyclone1066 said:

We'll go to a park and do it some day.