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Manuel Gotti (a pseudonym)Block C November 19, 2008
How Exercise Affects Heart Rate
Background
Our previous unit was breathing and respiration and now we are studying aboutthe heart and circulation. When a person exercises, they respire and their heart ratechanges. We did this experiment to see how exercise affects the heart rate.
Aim
Our group’s aim was to see
how different types of exercises gavedifferent heart rates.
We were trying to find out which exercise gave thehighest heart rate and which exercise gave the lowest heart rate.
Variables
Independent variable- types of exerciseDependent variable- heart rate
Controlled variable- the time we spend doing the exercise, the same person shoulddo all the exercises, the atmosphere should be the same, her heart rate has to returnto her resting pulse before she can do another activity, use the same laptop, and doit more than once so the data you get is reliable…How we controlled the controlled variables- we did each exercise for 30 seconds,Mackenzie was doing all the exercising, we did everything in the same place andsame time to keep the atmosphere the same, she rested and let her heart rate rest before starting another exercise, we used the same laptop all throughout and wedid three trials for each exercise to make it a fair test and get more reliable data.
Hypothesis
My hypothesis was that when Mackenzie does cardio vascular exercises such as jumping jacks, climbing the stairs, running and jogging, she will have a higher heart rate as opposed to if she does muscular exercises like push-ups and sit-ups. Ithought that her heart rate after muscular exercises would only be 3/4 of his heartrate after cardio vascular activity. For example if she gets a heart rate of 96 after  push-ups, I thought she would get 128 after running.
Materials
For this experiment we needed a laptop, the pulse detector, a stopwatch, a largearea to carry out the experiment, stairs, and most importantly Mackenzie.
 
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JumpingJacksStairs Sit-ups Push-ups Running Jogging
types of excersise
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Procedure
1.Start the software2.Connect the pulse monitor to Mackenzie3.Find her resting pulse4.She does 30 seconds of exercise5.Use the stopwatch to time her and make sure she does it for 30 seconds6.Clip the pulse finder to Mackenzie after she’s done and find her heart rate7.Let Mackenzie rest and check that here heart rate returns to the resting pulseshe got earlier 8.Once she has reached her resting pulse, repeat steps 4 to 7 twice with the sameexercise. (this is for the trials to make it a more fair test)9.Then repeat steps 4 to 8 five more times but with a different exercise each time
Results Table
We didn’t have enough time to do all the different exercises and trials because thelaptop wasn’t working and neither was the pulse detector so we had to do itmanually and our results weren’t accurate or complete. Instead we used the resultsof a group from block E who did complete it and were accurate enough.
Exercise Type(2 min)Maximum HeartRate (beats/min)Jumping Jacks125Stairs120Sit-ups98Push-ups95Running126Jogging120
If I were to make a graph with this data, it would look like this:Manasi Goel
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