Name: ________________________________

Date: ______________________

To answer all questions, please use the links provided.

1.

http://www.healthchecksystems.com/heart.asp

My Age:

What do you have to do to

calculate your MHR?

My Resting Heart Rate

My Maximum Heart
rate

How do you calculate your

resting heart rate?

My minimum training
heart rate
My maximum training
heart rate

How do you come up with

your target heart rate?

2. http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/physicalactivity/exercise's-effects-on-the-heart.html

How does exercise affect your heart?

What is the average percentage of

your MHR that you need to be
exercising?

What is Resting Heart Rate?

3. http://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/heart-experiment.html
What was your resting heart rate? __________
What was your heart rate after running in place? _________
What was your heart rate when laying down? _____________
What was your heart rate after walking? __________
With what activity did your heart beat the fastest? _____________________________
With what activity did your heart beat slower? ________________________________
4. http://igrow.org/healthy-families/health-and-wellness/light-moderateand-vigorous-activity/
Give 2 facts of moderate-intense
activities.
1. ____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
2. ____________________________
____________________________
____________________________

List 3 moderate-intense activities.

intense activities.

Give 2 facts of vigorous-intense

activities.
1. ___________________________
___________________________
___________________________
2. ___________________________
___________________________
___________________________

List 3 vigorous-

5. http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/health_fitness/gln_health_fitne
ss_zone/pdf/heart_rate_monitor_activities/the_heart/the_heart_activity_6.pdf

What is a heart rate

monitor?

Why is using a heart

rate monitor more
accurate than
measuring heart rate
manually?
Activity: You will do 2 activities and then measure your pulse with your fingers
and then measure it with your heart rate monitor to compare your results. You
will be measuring it 2 times. On the second try you must get the same heart rate
results. You can practice more than 1 time until you get it.

First Try

Second Try

1st activity: Run in place.

1st activity: Run in place.

Heart rate (Manually):________

Heart rate (Manually):________

Heart rate (Heart rate

monitor): ______

Heart rate (Heart rate monitor):

______

2nd activity: 20 jumping jacks.

2nd activity: 20 jumping jacks.

Heart rate (Manually): ______

Heart rate (Manually): ______

Heart rate (Heart rate

monitor): _______

Heart rate (Heart rate monitor):

_______

Did you get the same results the first time you took your pulse and measured it with the
heart rate monitor? Or did you have to do it again multiple times? How many?

How comfortable do you feel now about using a heart rate monitor and taking your pulse
manually?