can you make an honest, objective appraisal of whether it does or does not affect your performance)?
Duty of care:
If I had an injury that had justified hospital investigation/treatment but did not effect my daily work regime or indeed general fitness, I may still harbour doubts about the 180 and backtrack required in the beep test. I have never seen somebody executing such manouvres as part of a scheduled fitness program, yet thousands jog several miles daily. Few would argue that a standard of fitness is essential; I would suggest that a run - swim would be a better indicator, but just as my mother used to say, "If he told you to put your hand in the fire, would you", equally we are individually entitled to question a protocol that appears to be damaging to knees. Whilst these threads are invariably repetative in content and dull in tone, if they do keep the same old messages, then perhaps somebody in authority should listen and do something about it.