Heart Rate: How does your body maintain heart rate

during homeostasis?
Kelsey McIvor, Holly Jossart, Vivian Leida, Sadie Ikeda & Zoe Null

Abstract:
Objective- The objective of this lab was to see how your body maintains homeostasis through
heart rate while jumping rope.
Design- The focus group was monitored throughout six trials of different times before and after
jumping rope for one minute.
Subjects- The focus group consisted of five, sophomore girls in high school.
Variables Measured- The variables taken into account was the heart rates of adolescent girls
before and after a short, high energy workout to research the effects of exercise on the heart. One
member did not jump rope to keep the resting heart rate.
Analysis- The data was analyzed with a graph of each members heart rate at each given time.
Results- Heart rate is extremely dependent on the individual, but is still consistently increased
after a minute of jump roping.
Implications- An individuals health is the main factor of heart rate, dependent on the frequency
of personal exercise. However, exercising intensely for approximately a minute will elevate your
heart rate, no matter the individual and suggested that heart rate fluctuates more than the
monitored increments.
Key Words- heart rate, health of heart, effects of exercise

Introduction:
For this experiment, we were given the task Hypothesis: If we jump rope for 1 minute,
of finding how your heart rate is affected by then our heart r ate will spike and go back to
your body when maintaining homeostasis normal.
during exercise. We thought about different
ways we could prove this, whether it be
through food, liquid, or exercise. We decided
that we could prove this the most efficiently
by jumping rope. We setup our experiment so
that we could see how long after jumping
rope it take for your heart to get back to a
resting rate. We got five fifteen year old girls
and had them jump rope for one minute and
see how long it took them to get back down to
 a resting rate.
Procedure:

Materials:
Heart Rate machine
Jump Rope
5 people
Timer

1. Choose participants to do the experiment

2. Get a jump rope for each participant (make sure the jump ropes are all the same)
3. Take the h eart rate (count heart beats on neck for 1 minute) of each person 5 minutes
before jump roping.
4. 5 minutes later, take the heart rate for 1 minute before starting by taking pulse again.
5. Each person jump ropes for 1 minute, at a normal pace.
6. At the end of the minute, check the heart rate of each participant for one minute
immediately after exercising. Record in a data table.
7. Check the heart rate of each participant every other minute until their heart rate is back to
normal (the rate from the first time you measured the heart rate).
8. Make sure to write down every number in a data table. Use the below table.

Results:

 Time Person A Person B Person C Person D Person E

before/after (control, did
jump roping not jump
rope)

5 min before 89 66 84 97 112

1 min before 89 78 80 80 116

Directly 77 141 119 124 178

After

5 min after 93 78 81 78 116

10 min after 89 78 81 78 59

15 min after 56 78 81 N/A 109

Observations:
-When jump roping, the jump roping was not at a consistent speed.
-There would be breaks when the jump rope would snag on a person's feet or a distraction (cars,
other students, etc.) would go through the area we were in.
-Some were not as proficient at jump roping.
-The heart rate machine had errors.
-When the heart rate would have errors and we would have to retake the heart rate, the timing the
experiment would be off.
-The machine had too many errors so we could not take Person Ds heart rate after fifteen
minutes.

Discussion:
When you exercise, your heart rate goes up, as shown in our data. The body takes time to
let your heart rate return to normal. The persons B-E, jumped roped for one minute. The heart
rate was increased in people who jumped rope for one minute. This experiment was testing the
bodys use of homeostasis on heart rate. The average time for the body to return to resting heart
rate was 6.5 minutes.
We discovered how an individuals health is the main factor of heart rate, dependent on
the frequency of personal exercise. However, exercising intensely for approximately a minute
will elevate your heart rate, no matter the individual. The data also suggested that heart rate
fluctuates more than the monitored increments. We also discovered how the body does not have
a consistent heart rate.
In this experiment making sure people jumped for a whole minute made our experiment
go well.
When conducting this experiment there were many errors that occurred. One of which
was the heart machine failing. When measuring heart rate with the machine it would show up as
an error and would keep us from measuring heart rate at the correct time. Another error that was
made was when jump roping not everyone had the same jump roping skill, and did not jump rope
at a consistent speed. This error caused the results to be inaccurate because the heat rate would
be higher when the person jumped for longer and faster.
To improve this experiment there could have been more controlled in the speed of the
jump roping. This would insure the heart rates would not be affected by other variables. This
experiment could have also been improved by having people of the same skill of jump roping.
This would insure they could jump rope for the entire minute without stopping.
For further investigation, researching the effect of different exercise on heart rate with all
improvements made would lead to much more accurate results. Studying with precise
measurements would most likely change the conclusion significantly.

Work Cited:
https://www.livestrong.com/article/369714-how-does-the-body-maintain-homeostasis-in-respons
e-to-exercise/

https://www.livestrong.com/article/286312-increased-heart-rate-during-exercise-maintaining-ho
meostasis/