I think that girls will have a lower resting heart rate because females tend to be more aerobic than males. I think the more aerobic the person is the more fitter they are going to be so that should mean the lower the resting heart rate should be. Plus males generally have bigger bodies, so the bigger the body the further the heart has to pump blood around the body hence increase in heart rate.
(“Females should work that little bit harder in training as they are more aerobic than lads”- Bill Sweetenham- GB Nation Performance Director –NPD Nov 2002.
Methods
What I did?
Resting heart rate
Firstly I started my assessment by getting the right amount of students- 11 males and 11 females. I did his so I got a reliable set of results to work with and the averages would be fair. Secondly I got the students into the university sports hall where I did my testing. I started my test by testing each students resting heart rate whilst they were lying down. I started with this, because if I left it till the end of the testing the results wouldn’t have been fair as it wouldn’t have been their resting heart rate.
I measured their resting heart rate using a heart rate monitor and I recording watch. I used the monitor because it is the most accurate form of monitoring people’s heart rate that I had available.
Weight
With the same student that I used to monitor there heart rate I used to measured their weight. I measured their weight using digital scales. I used these as I feel that digital scales are more accurate than normal scales. Each student used the same set of scales so that the test as fair. I measured their weight whilst they were wearing shorts and t-shits. I did this because I wanted the results to be as close to their actual weight.
Height
Again with the same students that I used before I used again to measure their height. I measured the students using a tape measure. I got the student to stand up against a wall, and then marked the walk using a piece of calk. From the mark I used the tape measure and measured down from the mark to the floor. I got the student to take their shoes and sock off the make the result as accurate as they can be.
Results
Resting heart rate
Series 1= Males
Series 2= Females
Male resting heart rate
Mean average= 54 Beeps per minute when the average male student is lying down.
Females resting heart rate
Mean average= 66 Beeps per minute when the average female student is lying down.
You can see from the graph that the male & females resting heart rate has a positive coloration this is when the graph point are moving up and to the right. This means that there is a close coloration between males & females resting heart rate.
You can see from the results below that the females mean average is lot more than the male average. I used the mean average because it’s the most realistic average to use as it takes into account the very highs and the very low points and gives you an average reading.
Weight
Male
Mean weight= 73kg is the average weight for a male student that was tested.
Female
Mean weight= 57kg is the average weight for a female student that was tested.
As you can see from the graph males are a lot heavier than females. I think this because males generally have a bigger body frame and tend to have more muscle than females which is heavier.
Height
Male
Mean Height= 176cm is the average height for a male student that I tested.
Female
Mean Height= 162cm is the average height for a female student that I tested.
As you can see from the graph males are on average a lot bigger than females. I think this is because they are of a bigger build.
Discussion
In my hypotheses I said that I thought that females would have a lower resting heart rate than males. As you can see from the first graph there is a small coloration between males and females resting heart rate as the graph has a positive coloration. The graph has a postive coloration because the graph moves from the left to the right and from a low point to an upward position.
I didn’t think this would be the outcome as I thought because females are generally more aerobic than male’s there heart rate would be lower when resting.
From the result I would think that the males that I tested were generally fitter than the females, because the lower the resting heart rate the more aerobic the person is hence the fitter the person is.
On average from the students that I tested males were 12 beeps per minute lower than females. For an average this is a big margin. This means that males resting heart rate is over 1/6 slower than females.
I thought in my hypotheses that males would be heavier the females when tested. I was right in my prediction. Males on average are were 13 kg heavier than females. You would expect this, as females nationally are a lot lighter than males. From looking at the results I thought than males would have a bigger average than what they have. 13 kg is a big difference but if you take into account how much taller males are generally I would expect this figure to have been more.
I think that males are heavier because they are bigger both taller and wider then females plus they have more muscle than females that’s why males are stronger. Muscle can be up to three times heavier than fat (Ian Turner GB head coach swimming- personal quote- 2001). Again this is why I would expect the males average to be a lot greater than it was.
In my hypotheses I suggested that I thought males would be taller than females. I suggested this because males tend to have a bigger frame.
From the results you can see that males were a lot bigger than the females. On average males were 14 cm taller the females. This is a big margin between males and females, as the females would have stopped growing now. “Some males don’t stop growing till they are 21 years old. (Microsoft Body Parts- CD-ROM 2000) So that means that some of the males might not of peak to they tallest just yet.
Bibliography
Bill Sweetenham –NPD GB Swimming Nov 2002-
Ian Turner- GB head coach 2001- personal quote on a training camp
Body Parts-Microsoft CD-ROM 2000.
Content
Page
Introduction
- Hypotheses
- Method
- Results
- Results
- Results
- Results
- Discussion
- Bibliography