Unit 2 lab

In this lab I did three different activities to see what my heart rate and pulse would be. I played with my son, I ran up and down the stairs, and I went on a thrity minute walk. The purpose of this lab is to see what happens to the circulatory system when you undergo various exercises. Below are my results. My hypothesis is that my heartrate and pulse will increase with each different activity.

First I have the pre lab assement. I was kind of close on my estimates of where I stats would be.

I started taking my pulse on the neck but then I bought a blood pressure device that actually took my pulse at the same time as my blood pressure. Which is very handy.

The first picture is of my son on my back and me running around the living room. He really like this experiment because mommy got to play.

The next picture is of me going down the stairs. For this activity I ran up and down the stair five times. This was by far the exercise that got my heartrate up the most.

The last exercise that I did was go on thrity minute walks. I choose this one because my family and I do this every day. But I didn't get a picture of it. With this activity there was not really a change in my stats.

This is the chart of my actually findings. As you can see the harder I worked the higher the numbers. But with some of them the more times I did the reps the more used to them I got. So in order to keep my numbers up there I would have had to increase the number of times I did each activity during each rep.Next is a graph of my mean pulse.

I don't think there was any big problems with my data. I might of changed some of the activities that I did. My hypothesis was right and wrong. My stats did go up while doing most of the exercises but as my body got used to doing them it didn't go up as much. So in order to keep my stats up there I needed to increase the number of times I did each rep during on session. The walk didn't change anything because by body is already used to doing this. This lab shows me that the harder my muscles work the higher my pulse and etc., but once my muscles got used to doing something it took either more times I needed to do it or to do it for longer periods of times.

I thought that this lab was very fun and entertaining. My son liked it because he got to play with mommy. I think that with this lab you really understand the relationship between hard you muscles work and your pulse and blood pressure. I just hope that I did this lab correctly.