Internal Assessment The relationship between recovery heart rate between athletes and non-athletes Lab Design: Research Question: What is the effect of practicing aerobic sports on a daily basis, on the recovery heart rate of people? Hypothesis: If a person practices an aerobic sport on a daily basis (athlete), then he will have a higher recovery rate due to the fact that their hearts are more accustomed to intense physical exercises than someone who does not (non-athlete). Background info: Heart Rate Recovery • The rate at which your heart returns to a normal resting rate after physical activity is known as the recovery rate. • The rate is usually a reliable indicator of your cardiovascular fitness. • Typically, athletes have a faster recovery rate than non-athletes because their hearts are trained and accustomed to intense physical exertion. o An athlete's normal resting rate may hover around 40 beats per minute once he has recovered from exercise. Average heart rate • Eighteen years old (boys) - 70 beats/min (can range from 50 to 90 beats/min) o This is at rest (No physical activity is taking place) • Eighteen years old (boys)- 137 beats/min (can range between 101 to 172 beats/min) o This is while practicing an aerobic exercise Resting Heart Rate o The resting heart rate is simply the heart rate at rest. One good way to measure the resting heart rate is to count your pulse when you awake in the morning, before rising from bed. Alternatively, it could be measured when you first stand up in the morning (and the value will be slightly higher). To be most useful for establishing a trend, it should be measured the same way each day. o Ample evidence has shown that the resting heart rate decr... ... middle of paper ... ...ving the investigation: Limitation Improvement Amount of trials and people that participated in the lab. There were too many trials per person and this might have influenced on their recovery heart rate, and there were too little people per each group. I believe that I should have gotten more people in order to get a broader view of the athletes vs. non-athletes. I would also like to have made 1 less trial in order to make them have a bigger rest and so it would not have a much of influence on the results. Stopwatch in combination with the hand in order to check for pulse and heart rate. This was very complicated to do because at some point the heart rate was very fast and very difficult to count the number of heartbeats. By using a statoscope I believe it would have been easier to count the number of heartbeats in order to find out the recovery heart rate.
Submaximal and maximal exercise testing are two analytic methods that can be used to examine the cardiovascular, and cardiorespiratory fitness/health levels of the individual being examined. Submaximal testing is usually preferred over maximal mainly because the submaximal exam is more practical in a fitness/health environment. Both test require the individual being examined to perform controlled exercise on a(n) treadmill/ergometer until either steady state has consecutively been reached (submax), or the individual reaches their max (close to it). Being that both test are set to exceed time limits of more than 3 minutes we examine the use of the ATP-PC, Glycolytic, and Oxidative energy systems. Although a huge portion of the test involves the use of the oxidative energy system, we must remember that the three systems are co-occurrent.
The Queens College/McArdle Step Test, the Rockport One Mile Walk Test, and the 1.5 Mile Run Test are three different field tests that were performed in this lab that were used to measure and predict an individual’s aerobic capacity. The measurement of aerobic capacity, or VO2 max, is a valid way to assess an individual’s cardiorespiratory fitness level. VO2 max refers to the maximal amount of oxygen an individual utilizes during intensive exercise. A higher VO2 max demonstrates a more efficient cardiorespiratory system as an individual with a higher VO2 max can sustain a higher intensity for a longer
One of the largest issues with the investigation was that, although the sample size of twenty would be considered good for many experiments, in this experiment it was far too small a sample to represent the rate of muscle fatigue for humans as a species.
to determine why athletes suffer sudden cardiac arrest, and although there have been a fair amount of conclusions, none have been clear and strong enough to determine why exactly they occ...
Heart rate variability (HRV) reflects the variations in the intervals between heart beats (R waves) over time. The time between two consecutive R waves is termed the R-R interval; it is measured in milliseconds, and is controlled by the autonomic nervous system 1. HRV is a non-invasive method for interpreting autonomic nervous system modulation and provides information relating to each branch of the autonomic nervous system 2. Analysis of the beat to beat variability provides an insight into the relative contributions of the sympathetic and parasympathetic components of the autonomic nervous system’s control of the heart 34. In healthy individuals it is now widely agreed that under normal resting conditions, a high HRV is an indicator that the parasympathetic pathway is dominant over the sympathetic pathway. Consequentially, a large number of various disease states for example, cardiovascular disease have been linked to a low HRV reflecting increased sympathetic activity at rest 5. Studies have reported that regular practice of physical activity improves ...
... uptake during submaximal exercise but did increase heart rate and the rate-pressure product at rest and during both exercise and recovery’.
Within this set, the investigators randomized how many trials the participants would complete: 7, 10, or 13. Then, they were giving the chance to do 3 or 6 more trials and were ask to record their results.
Firstly we lay them on the back to get the resting heart rate and we
Wiese-Bjornstal, D. M. (2010). Psychology and socioculture affect injury risk, response, and recovery in high intensity athletes: a consensus statement. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Sciences in Sports, 103-111.
Introduction: In year 10, biology, we have been studying the heart: the functions of the heart, the parts of the heart (ventricle, atrium) and heart problems. Besides that we have been studying the heart rate of humans. We were asked to create an experiment to see what affects heart rate. We discovered that diet, stress, cholesterol level, excitement, mass, age, temperature and exercise affected the heart. Diet and exercise were the only 2 doable and so my partner and I chose exercise. We determined that as the intensity of an exercise increased so did the heart rate of the person performing it.
AIM: - the aim of this experiment is to find out what the effects of exercise are on the heart rate. And to record these results in various formats. VARIABLES: - * Type of exercise * Duration of exercise * Intensity of exercise * Stage of respiration
Creative new training methods, developed by coaches, athletes and sport scientists, are aimed to help improve the quality and quantity of athletic training ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). However, these methods have encountered a consistent set of barriers including overtraining ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). Due to these barriers, the need for physical and mental recovery in athletics brought an increasing attention in practice and in research ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1).
The two major things that will help an athlete while measuring the cardiovascular drift are progression and hydration levels. The heart rate of an athlete working hard during a workout should be no more than their maximum heart rate which is found by, if you’re a female take 226-age, if you’re a male take 220-age. If while doing a workout the maximum heart rate is exceeded by too much it may be necessary to take a break or slow down greatly. This may also help with traking the hydration of an athlete. If an athlete stays hydrated their core temperature will stay regulated which means they won’t sweat as much, which also means the heart won’t be under as much stress while transporting the oxygenated blood throughout the body to the
The male human has always had certain physical advantages over the female human such as increased muscle mass, larger bones, and superb aggressiveness in times where deemed necessary. But is recovery rate (or, how long it takes for the heart rate to return to its resting rate) an advantage possessed by males also? The question posed in this experiment is whether or not the heart rate of the male will recover faster than that of a female. The hypothesis tested was that the male's heart rate would fall considerably faster than the female's after one minute of intense physical activity.
This reflection of vital signs will go into discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of each vital sign and the importance of each of them. Vital signs should be assessed many different times such as on admission to a health care facility, before and after something substantial has happened to the patient such as surgery and so forth (ref inter). I learned to assess blood pressure (BP), pulse (P), temperature (T) and respiration (R) and I will reflect and discuss which aspects were more difficult and ways to improve on them. While pulse, respiration and temperature were fairly easy to become skilled at, it was blood pressure which was a bit more difficult to understand.