Hypothesis: Activities like reading and music will lower your heart rate. Activities like sit-ups, walking, jump roping, and running will increase your heart rate. Jump roping and running will make a person hit their taget heart rate.
Conclusion: For non-exercising activities,
depending on the person, music either
slightly increased the heart rate over
their resting heart rate or slightly
decreased under the resting heart rate.
The change was generally between 6
and 10 percent. Reading stayed
slightly above a person's resting heart
rate but never went above a person's
minimum target heart rate. Reading
increased or decreased the heart rate
by 10 percent.
The anaerobic exercise I chose was
sit-ups. In general people's heart
rates stayed between the minimum
and maximum heart rate. Heart rates
increased by 12 to 40 percent.
The aerobic exercises I chose were
walking, jump roping, and running.
Walking heart rate stayed between the
minimum and maximum target heart
rate. The percent of heart rate
increase was 10 to 37 percent. Jump
roping increased a person's heart rate
by 63 to 149 percent. Most people hit
their maximum heart rate. The rest of
the people at least hit their maximum
target heart rate. Running increased
people's rate by 96 to 215 percent.
People either hit their maximum heart
rate or were just below their
maximum target heart rate.
In conclusion, of the four people
that participated two had heart rates
that were highest when they were
running, the other two when they
were jump roping. Jump roping
increased heart rates the fastest.
Therefore, aerobic exercise increased
the heart rate the most, and nonexercise
had little effect on heart rate.
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