The Harvard Step test

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Tom Hazell

Planning:

* Firstly we found a bench that was 15 cm high.

* Then we set up a table allowing us 3 different results from 5 different people.

* The variable we used was changing the people doing the step-ups.

* We stepped up onto the bench every 2 seconds (every odd number you stepped up and every even number you stepped down) for 300 seconds (5 minutes).

* After I had done the step-ups for five minutes I rested for 1 minute then took my pulse for 30 seconds.

* After another 30 seconds rest I took my pulse for 30 seconds again.

* And after another 30 seconds rest I took my pulse again.

* As there were 5 people in my group each person repeated this process until we had 5 people's 3 pulse counts, which we put into a table.

* To work our fitness' we used this equation :-

Fitness = time spent on exercise (300 seconds) x 100
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2 x (first + second + third pulse counts)

* To work out our level of fitness we used this scale :-

90+ extremely fit: 80+ very fit: 70+ fit: 60+ fair: below 59 unfit.

Observations:

Person

Pulse count 1

Pulse count 2

Pulse count 3

Fitness

Person 1

45

46

44

11

Person 2

31

33

32

56

Person 3

32

31

30

61

Person 4

38

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