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The part of the method went really well was that we made steps for recovering time.. The recovering

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The part of the method went really well was that we made steps for recovering time.. The recovering time was very important for our experiment, and it took the most part of the experiment.

Consumption of food causes the organs involved with digestion to demand for more blood than normal. This diverts blood away from other major organs (the heart, brain and lungs etc.) Due to this, the heart has to pump harder and faster to meet the bodies requirement for oxygen and thereby increases the heart rate. The experiment can be improved by making sure that the participants do not consume drinks and beverages except for water during the duration of the experiment. Next, some participants stretched before doing the jumping jacks and this may have …show more content…

This is done to improve the accuracy of the data as one's heart beat can slow down over a period of one minute. For future experiments on heart rate, one should count the heart beats for 15 seconds and multiply it by four to get the heart rate(bpm). This will ensure greater accuracy of the data as well as less room for errors or miscount. Furthermore, Some of the difficulties with this experiment is the inability to control the medical condition of the participants since different individuals means more variety. As well, the jumping jacks themselves are hard to control because sometimes the participants may not spread their legs far enough despite the marked boundaries by tape and the monitoring. And participants also find themselves moving forward as they jump causing them to cross over the taped line in front of them unconsciously, and at this time, the monitor will correct the participant. These tiny errors can mount up and cause each participant to have varied energy outputs, thus affecting the accuracy of the data. A way to improve this is to help the participants be spatially aware of their surroundings so they are conscious about the whereabouts of the taped lines and better control themselves from moving forward since they cannot look down. This will not only make the monitor's job easier but, also make the entire experiment go much smoother. Overall, this experiment was successful. There is little ambiguity

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