How does exercise affect heart rate?

Name: __________________ Date: ___________________

Introduction:
This lab is about the heart rate during exercise. We researched about heart rate and how exercise affects it. We had to gure out our own heart rate (mine was 90 BPM). We gured out that the heart rate is the count of how fast your heart is pumping blood and oxygen to your muscles.

Research questions:
HOW DO YOU FIGURE OUT YOUR HEART RATE?

By putting my index and middle ngers together on your wrist.

Trail

Trail 1

Trail 2

Trail 3

Trail 4

Trail 5

AVERAGE

BPM

90 BPM

84 BPM

90 BPM

90 BPM

90 BPM

90 BPM

AVERAGE: 90 BPM. Running requires more energy than jogging, so the heart pumps less blood when jogging because the muscles require less oxygen and energy.

Oskar Tullberg

Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

Variables:
The independent variable is: (the one variable that you will change)

The Time I Will Be Running

The dependent variable is: (The variable that you are investigating)

My Heart Rate

Control Variables
The factors that you keep the same, so that the experiment is a fair test. Try and list at least 5.

Factors to be controlled:

Reason it needs to be controlled:

How it will be controlled:

1. How fast I am running So that it is a fair trail

By me making sure that I am running the same length at the same amount of time every time.

2. The amount of rest I So that it is a fair measurewill have in between the ment of heart rate. exercises

By timing the amount of rest I have until I am back on to my resting heart rate.

3. My resting heart rate

So that I start the exercises at By measuring my heart rate before the same heart rate. I do and exercise

4.The exercise

So that it is the same exercise So that the heart rate is affected by the same exercise

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Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

5. The same area of ex- So that it isnt rough/different By running on the basketball court ercise terrain that strains the muscle.

Hypothesis:
It will increase by x number of beats, because the heart will have to pump more blood for a longer amount of time and as a result, the heart rate will go up.

As shown in the graph, heart rate goes up during exercise, the rate of the heart rate goes up differently in different exercises.

Oskar Tullberg

Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

Heart Rate During Exercise

5

RESTING RATE

TRAIL 1

TRAIL 2

TRAIL 3

Materials:
1. StopWatch 2. Recording Sheet 3. Computer 4. Our Legs

Oskar Tullberg

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Method:
First, I will get ready and my partner starts the stopwatch.

Then, I will start running. After that, I check my heart rate, then I wait for it to go back to the resting heart rate.

Heart Rate Dur- Trail 1 ing EXERCISE BPM

Trail 2

Trail 3

Trail 4

Trail 5

AVERAGE

Go back to beginning of list but add one minute of running.

Oskar Tullberg

Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

Results:
Trail 1
Test 1; 1 min. of running 100 BPM

Trail 2
98 BPM

Trail 3
106 BPM

Trail 4
101 BPM

Trail 5
98 BPM

AVG.
100 BPM

Trail 1
Test 2; 2 min. of running 139 BPM

Trail 2
146 BPM

Trail 3
145 BPM

Trail 4
140 BPM

Trail 5
147 BPM

AVG.
143 BPM

Heart Rate at Different Durations of Exercise

160

128

B P M

96

64

32

Resting Heart Rate

Avg. 1 min. of Running

Avg. 2 min. of Running

Avg. 3 min. of Running

Oskar Tullberg

Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

Conclusion:
By looking at my graph you can clearly see that my heart rate goes up during different durations of exercise. The interesting thing is that my heart rate doesnt go up as rapidly when I was running for three minutes. My theory is that I wasnt running as fast when it was a longer time because I was more tired, so therefore my heart rate didnt climb as rapidly.

This happens because the heart will increase by x number of beats, because the heart will have to pump more blood for a longer amount of time and as a result, the heart rate will go up.

Here is a diagram that shows how the lungs and heart work together to pump oxygen. Follow the arrows and read the captions. What happens is that the oxygen gets breathed in, mixes with the blood from the right ventricle and gets oxygen, then travels into the left ventricle to get pumped into the body.

Oskar Tullberg

Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

Evaluation:
Control variable Did this cause an Degree of impact Improvement (how to x that was not increase or de- (small, medium or the problem) controlled: crease in the delarge): pendent variable?: 1. The speed I A decrease because Small By running the same speed was running. it slowed my running so there is less heart rate
2. The same place Increase because I where I ran. strained my muscles more Small By running at the basketball court.

Table 3: Reliability of the method: Were there enough trials? Did multiple trials give similar data? Are there anomalous points?
Reliability of data. The measuring instruments. Explanation (why / why not?)

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Reliability of data. a) Did the measuring instruments collect data that can be trusted? Yes b) Was the experiment repeated enough times? Yes c) Did the measuring instrument collect precise data? (i.e. Did the multiple trials give similar data?) Yes

Explanation (why / why not?)

Because it is the Apple Apimac Timer

Because we did 5 trails per experiment.

Because I had some really close trails.

Size of sample. d) was the range large enough? Because the resting heart rate is 90 BPM and the average for the third experiment was 143 BPM

Yes

Oskar Tullberg

Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time

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Thursday, 17 January 2013 6:00:27 PM Hong Kong SAR China Time