This lab project is to see how my blood pressure, pulse, and respirations are affected by doing physical activities. I chose physical activities because I try to exercise at least four times a week.
I have chosen running around my house for the first exercise assignment. I am literally running outside around my house. For this exercise, I will run around my house once, then come in and take my measurements. I know that my metabolic measurements will go up because this exercise is physical. When you exercise, your heart rate goes up, so with my heart rate up, that makes the heart beat faster, and forcing blood through faster. The blood moving faster through my heart will make my blood pressure go up. The heart has to work harder then at rest. With the repetition of running around my house, (resting in between, through the course of the day) I believe that my measurement will go up, but that they may stay the same with each repetition. While resting, my measurements should come back to, or close to my baseline, I am not sure how long this takes, but I guess about a half hour.
For the second exercise, I chose to lift weights. This is a tuff one, but I believe that my metabolic measurements will go up slightly. With the repetition of doing this three times through the course of the day I will increase the number of time I lift them. For the first repetition I will do four sets of 6 reps (arms), for the second, I will do six sets of 6 reps, and for the last one I will do eight sets of 6 reps. I know that my measurements will go up, but it won't be as drastic as running around my house. After I rest, I believe that my measurements will return to my baseline. Lifting weights is physical, but not as physical as running. My recover for my measurements should take about a half hour.
For the third exercise, I have a manual treadmill that I will walk on. First for 30 seconds (not easy to move)!!! Second, I will do one minute and the third I will do a minute and a half. My treadmill is not electric so it is very hard to move so I know that my measurements will go up. The one for 30 seconds will not affect my measurements to much, but the next two will. I will also rest in between these reps. My measurements should go back to baseline. I am not sure how quickly your measurements recover for activity, but I believe it should take about a half hour to 45 minutes?!
Pics
This is a picture of my digital blood pressure machine and a watch to take my pulse and respirations.
This is me taking my blood pressure
The reading of my systolic and diastolic. This machine also takes my pulses, but I used my fingers and a watch.
This is me taking my pulse
This is my manual treadmill and on it is the sneakers I used to run around my house and the weights that I used for my 2nd activity.
As for my hypothesis I think I was very close to what I imagined. With my first exercise, running, my measurements went up drastically. Kind of scared me! My second activity, weights, I said that they would go up slightly and they did. The respirations went up the most. As for the third activity, the treadmill, all the measurements went up. The first reading only went up slightly because I was only on the treadmill for 30 seconds.
Here are my graphs.........
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I tried to put the metabolic table that you provided, but it would not cut and paste. So I tried my best.
METABOLIC RATE DATA TABLE
Repetition 1 Rep 2 Rep 3 Rep 4 Rep 5 Means
Baseline resting resting resting resting resting
PULSE
68 66 66 64 66 70 66.4
RESPIRATION
20 18 18 20 18 18 18.4
SYSTOLIC
108 106 111 111 102 96 105.2
DIASTOLIC
78 65 70 72 65 59 66.2
Activity 1 Running
PULSE
68 119 88 101 102.6
RESPIRATIONS
29 26 24 26 25.3
SYSTOLIC
108 137 151 149 145.6
DIASTOLIC
78 88 91 104 94.3
Activity 2 Weights 4 sets 6 sets 8 sets
PULSE
68 86 80 84 83.3
RESPIRATIONS
20 18 28 28 24.6
SYSTOLIC
108 115 112 107 111.3
DIASTOLIC
78 76 70 63 69.9
Activity 3 Treadmill 30sec 1 min 1.5 min
PULSE
68 93 127 125 115
RESPIRATIONS
20 22 28 30 26.6
SYSTOLIC
108 108 128 135 123.6
DIASTOLIC
78 78 82 85 81.6
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