An Experiment To Find Out the Effect of Exercise on health and the heart rate

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AN EXPERIMENT TO FIND OUT THE EFFECT OF EXERCISE

AND HEALTH ON HEART RATE.

PILOT EXPERIMENT

I carried out a pilot experiment to identify any problems that may occur before I carried out the final experiment. I tried out various different exercises such as running, skipping and jogging on the spot. From all of these I have decided to make my participants jog on the spot for up to 10 minutes.

To start off the experiment, it is important that I measure the participant's pulse rate. For my pilot study I first checked and recorded the participants pulse rate before carrying out the experiment. I then told the participant to start jogging and told them not to stop until I said so. After one minute of my participant jogging on the spot I measured the pulse for one minute and then recorded it. I recorded my results from this experiment on a piece of paper under the heading participant one. The participant was then told to jog on the spot again but this time for two minutes. This experiment was conducted in exactly the same way for 10 minutes.

Form this pilot study I found