How Does

Heart Rate
Change with
Exercise?

Elena Georgina
Cantn Snchez.
3
ESO A
Introduction
How does heart rate change with exercise?
Heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats per minute
(bpm). A normal resting heart rate for adults ranges from 60 to 100 beats a
minute. Some studies say that if you have higher heart rate, you will have
less life expectancy. Heart rate may vary for different reasons. This are
some of them:
1. Age: Young people have more heart rate than old people.
2. Hour of the day: In the morning we have less bpm than in the
afternoon.
3. Temperature: The more heat, the higher the pulsations.
4. Genetic: Depending on your family bpm.
5. Gender: Girls, normally, have got more pulsations than boys.
6. Body composition: If you are tall you will have less heart rate and fat
people have got more heart rate than thin people.
7. Mental control: If you are relaxed you will have less heart rate than
stressed.
8. Drugs: These substances increase the bpm in that moment.
9. Position: When you are standing you have more heart rate than lying
down.
10.Tiredness: It decreases heart rate.
11.Contamination: When the carbon monoxide increases, the amount of
oxygen in each liter of air decreases at the same time.
12.Exercise: Exercise can vary the heart rate in that moment, and that is
what we are going to see in this practice.
In this practice I am going to see my heart rate depending on the exercise. I
will collect my data in different exercises and see how it changes. I am going
to collect the data of my mother too to see if we have the same results, not
to compare one by one, only to see if we have more or less the same data.

Hypothesis
If you do different exercises (plank, back squat, sit ups or jumping) then
jumping will have more bpm because the intensity is higher and your body
will need more oxygen.

Variables
Independent variable:
In this practice what I am going to change are the exercises that I do to see
the data of the dependent variable. So, the exercises are the independent
variable. The exercises are plank, squat, sit ups and jumping.

Dependent variable:
And what is going to change due to the independent variable is the heart
rate, so, thats the dependent variable.
Constant variables
These variables are the ones that cant be changed, changing them lead to
alterations in the data. In this case are all the things that can vary the heart
rate, like the temperature, hour of the day, tiredness, etc.

Equipment
To do this experiment is necessary to have:
1. Something to collect the data, notebook, computer, etc.
2. Comfortable clothes to do the exercises.
3. And something to measure the heart rate. It can be a pulsometer or
just with your fingers.
If you are going to use your fingers, you can put them in your wrist, just
below your thumb, or in your neck, on either side of your windpipe. You cant
do it with your thumb because this finger also has pulse. Then, all you have to
do to know the bpm is to count your beats for 30 seconds and then multiply
per two.

Method
To do this you have to follow the next instructions:
1. Prepare to do the exercises.
2. Start collecting data of the pulse every exercise and put it in a
table like this. I will be doing each exercise for 30 seconds, then I
will check my heart rate doing it with the method of the fingers.

Data Calm Plank Back Sit ups Running Jumping

squat

My
heart
rate

My
moth
er
heart
rate.
In the horizontal column you put the independent variable, the exercises in
this case.
In the vertical column you put the dependent variable (Heart rates that you
are going to measure) I am going to collect my mothers heart rate and
mine.
Im going to put a photo of each exercise to see how to do them:
Plank: Back squat:
 Sit ups: Running:
Jumping:

Data collection

Data Calm Plank Back Sit ups Running Jumping

squat
66bp 80bpm 98bpm 106bpm 120bpm 130bpm
My m
heart
rate

My 68bp 90bpm 108bp 116bp 120bpm 134bpm

moth m m m
er
heart
rate.
Data processing
Here is all the data in a graphic

Chart Title
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
My heart rate Categora 2

Resting Plank Back squat

Sit ups Running Jumping

Discussions
The data shows my heart rate and my mothers heart rate. In the left hand
mine and in the right mi mother. When we start with the exercises the bpm
starts increasing, the ones that have more intensity are the ones that have
higher bpm, we both have more or less the same results.

Evaluation
The results that I have collected are correct because I took them out and I
made sure they were not wrong. Well, in the things that can vary our heart
rate says that young people have more bpm than the old people, in this
case it isnt because my mother have the heart rate normally very high.

Conclusion
So, the data found supports my hypothesis. As I have said, heart rate varies
for a lot of things but in the exercise it goes high and with more intensity it
goes even higher. I also put the heart rate of my mother, just to see it in a
different person, we can see in both cases that with more intensity heart
rate increases. I have said too that the exercise that will have more bpm is
going to be jumping, data supports it. We can see that heart rate increases
because exercising muscles need more oxygen and energy, heart must beat
faster in order to provide them.
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