The Yo-Yo take a look at, or the Yo-Yo Intermittent Restoration (YYIR) take a look at, is used to evaluate the health of elite worldwide athletes throughout sports activities; and India’s star midfielder and double Olympic medallist Hardik Singh believes the nation’s hockey gamers are fitter than cricketers when assessed on YYIR.
“In cricket if anybody is scoring 19 or 20 on the Yo-Yo Take a look at, folks name it the fittest.Sreejesh, who’s a goalkeeper, scores 21,” stated Hardik on a podcast, a clip from which is doing the rounds on ‘X’ (previously Twitter).
India received a second consecutive bronze medal within the Olympics final month, when the workforce led by Harmanpreet Singh went on to beat Spain 2-1 within the third-place playoff to complete on the rostrum at Paris 2024. Veteran goalkeeper Sreejesh retired from the game after that and was appointed the coach of the junior males’s workforce.
In 2021, Indian hockey had made a historic return to the Video games podium after 41 years.
Giving deeper particulars about how evaluation on YYIR take a look at is completed, Hardik stated: “The principle degree begins from 15, there are 8 sprints. It goes on like that, 23.8 is final. We now have seven gamers who’ve achieved 23.8.”
The 26-year-old from Punjab, who has 142 worldwide caps and scored 11 objectives, added: “The junior ladies (hockey workforce) rating 17-18. Our (common) is 22-23.”
The Indian males’s hockey workforce will subsequent be seen in motion in a two-match bilateral sequence in opposition to Germany on October 23 and 24 in Delhi.
