60 Jumping Jacks Lab Report

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The purpose of this experiment is to determine the effect of increasing the number jumping jacks (from 0 to 30 to 60 to 90) executed by a 15 ­year­ old female on the heart rate (beats/minute or bpm) of the female. To test this 3 participants (15 year old females) were gathered and had their resting (0 jumping jacks) heart rates in bpm determined after 2 minutes of sitting down and refraining from movement. In this experiment, to determine the heart rate of the participants the arterial pulses of the radial artery were counted. Since the number of time the artery pulsates is equal to the number of times the heart beats it is considered the same. After that, each participant executed jumping jacks ranging in number from 30 to 60 to 90. After …show more content…

On average, as the number of jumping jacks executed by a 15 year old female increases at increments of 30 the bpm of the participants immediately after should increase by 18 bpm. The hypothesis is also supported through knowledge of how one’s body reacts to exercise. During vigorous physical activity one’s muscles require a lot of energy. Although some of this energy can be produced by anaerobic metabolism the majority of the energy needed must be aerobic meaning it needs oxygen. Because the bloodstream is responsible for transporting nutrients, wastes, and gases like the aforementioned oxygen to one’s muscles, the heart must pump a large amount of oxygenated blood to support the muscles during exercise. To fulfill this high demand, the heart must beat faster to increase the amount of oxygen transported and to decrease the amount of waste like lactic acid. As the intensity of the exercise increases, or in the case the number of jumping jacks executed increases, the heart must beat even faster because the muscles would be requiring more oxygen since they would have to contract

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