A Stroke to Your Heart Rate
K.M Cook, A.A Altamirano, L.T Karney, D.D Talmich
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Hypothesis:
Our groups overall prediction of our blood pressure and heart rate is that it will increase as we exercise our body using different types of strokes while swimming.
Materials:
1. Blood pressure
2. Pool
3. Stopwatch
4. Swimming suit
5. Goggles
Procedures:
1. First, we took our normal heart rate and blood pressure before entering the pool.
2. Then after we jumped in the water and started doing our swim.
3. We set the timer for 1 mi. and swam the freestyle first.
4. Then recorded our blood pressure/heart rate.
5. Then went for 2min/ 3min/ 4min intervals and recorded after each one.
6. Then we did the back stroke and sidestroke.
7. Then did the same procedure for each one over 1min/ 2min/ 3min/ 4min intervals. Then recorded after each.
Problem:
In this project, we tried to solve our idea by figuring out whether different types of swimming strokes will change and vary ones blood pressure and heart rate.
Conclusion:
Our hypothesis that our blood pressure and heart rate will increase as we exercise our body using different types of swim strokes was proved in thorough our experiment. We proved that while exercising that heart rate and blood pressure will increase as you get your body moving in different strokes. We concluded that when we took our heart rate and blood pressure for each swimming stroke it was higher than our normal one. The backstroke was our lowest rate during our swim compared to the other strokes. Freestyle turned out to give our highest rate while swimming. The sidestroke was in between the two rates. In the end, we proved that our hypothesis was true because for each different stroke we found different heart rate and pressure.
Abstract:
Our goal was to prove that heart rate and blood pressure varies with the different types of swimming strokes. In our experiment our test subjects, Ashley, Logan, Desiree, and Kandace, all had their initial heart rate and blood pressure taken in a relaxed state. We followed this up by swimming at different intervals of time along with 3 different types of strokes. We swam free style, backstroke, and sidestroke at intervals of 1, 2, 3, and 4 minutes. After each interval of time, blood pressure and heart rate was taken. After each stroke, a break was taken to allow normal heart rate and blood pressure to normalize. Overall, we found that our heart rate increased that mouse while doing the sidestroke, and increased the least while doing the backstroke. Our blood pressure also followed this same pattern during this experiment.
