 Right guys. What is going on? Welcome back to Napuna Wai Athletics Track here in Christchurch. It's an absolutely pristine facility. I love it and I haven't been back here for about two and a half years or maybe two years something like that. So it was about time. I've spent the last four weeks back in Christchurch on holiday and I always had plans on coming out here. I didn't know exactly what for but now I do. So what we're going to do today folks is test my fitness prior to going back to Alice Springs. This is what you'd call day one testing. This is you know whatever result I get is going to be all about you know just my base level of fitness. My level of fitness that has been maintained through very little and so it's going to be interesting but what a test like this does whether you call it the beep test or the pacer test there's other names for bleep test. What this test does is it gives you a measurable um a measurable oh what's the word it's measurable. It is a fitness test that is measurable which means that into the future if you do indeed make some progress you can test it and you can uh you can you can prove it you know what I mean and that excites me I always love my statistics my analytics and my measurables and this test this particular test I've done I've done many times right but I began doing it again on this channel and I've done it three times. The first time I think I came short of of 10 just short the second time I think I I think I might have got 10 possibly but the third time and I don't know whether my fitness actually improved I feel like it was more confidence to be honest but the third time I actually got a 12 and so I'm excited today just to see exactly where I'm at you know a couple of years on a couple of years on um with no real consistent work on my fitness so this is going to be interesting if nothing else um it's going to be tough but uh what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a full lap around just to warm up then we're going to place the cones out one here and one 20 meters down then I'm going to get my earphones in put the beep test on in my ears you guys will hear it in the background and uh we'll get into it because really when you've got something like this on your plate there is there is nothing nothing else to do but to just do it you know thankfully the first like three or four levels are really really easy you get up to level five or six you feel like you're going really well seven or eight starts to get tough nine or ten you know if I can push any further than level 10 today that will be a real win so yeah I'm going to warm up get my shit together get my thoughts together and then get into it right guys the time has come what have I got myself into the 20 meter bleep test starts in 10 seconds level one starts with a triple bleep after a five second countdown five four three two one start of level two start of level three of level four start of level five start of level six start of level seven of level nine start of level 10 start of level 11 level 11 relying on a very very very base level of fitness now I could hey if my life depended on it I probably could have pushed through to level 12 but I'd say no more than that so hey look I've thought I've thought of myself in the past to be in really good shape I come I come here try and do something like that pretty randomly I have failed I failed many times today I'm not going to call that a fail but it's certainly not a PB so feeling that this is pretty much day one of my return to the rugby field it's a really interesting test really interesting it's never going to test your 100% you know full sprint but it just lulls you into a sense of um a sense of confidence you know but by the time it got to level four or five I was like okay yeah now I'm in for it and yeah level 11 there you go so by all means I recommend anyone else out there to give it a go post your number down in the comment section below and I don't want to hear anything about oh when I was your age or back in the day when I played football no this is a test anyone can do so please by all means get out there get outside get some sun and push yourself you know it's 9 30 in the morning and I've already done a beat test wowee what a time to be alive okay that's enough from me and I'll see you on the next one