Lab Unit 2

The ball that I used for my sit ups My bedroom clock to take my pulse and respiratory rate
And my cousin's sphygmomanometer, she is a nurse and took my blood pressure each time :)

Unit 2 Lab Write Up

For our Unit 2 lab we were asked to measure our body’s metabolic rates like blood pressure, heart rate and respiration rate while at rest and after different activities. Our body’s need our different rates to stay at a good average to perform normally. Our heart rates need to vary from about 60 to 80 beats per minute at rest. Respiratory rates need to be at approximately 12 to 20 breaths per minute and resting blood pressure should be around 120/80. Although there are variations for these numbers in healthy people, they are an ideal approximation.

I think that my heart rate and respiratory rates will strongly increase with jumping jacks, sit ups and running a quarter mile. For my blood pressure I am not so sure how much it will change. I do understand that blood pressure itself is the blood flow into the arteries, I am not sure if it will jump drastically either way. I will guess it will also increase will all of the activities.

** My charts won't copy and I could only paste it in here this way... sorry if it is soo confusing

HOW DO I THINK MY METABOLIC RATES WILL COMPARE TO BASELINE AFTER:

PULSE
RESPIRATION RATE
BP SYTOLIC
BP DIASTOLIC
ACTIVITY ONE:
Jumping Jacks

90
30
140
90
ACTIVITY TWO:
Sit ups

100
35
150
95
ACTIVITY THREE:
¼ mile Jog

115
45
160
95

My Data:

Rest
Jumping Jacks
Sit ups
¼ mile Jog
Blood Pressure
135/85
131/85
127/90
138/92
Heart Rate
80
86
97
115
Respiratory Rate
20
31
43
51

Unfortunately, I can't get my images to be where I want them to be... but my graphs are at the top of the page.

I think that my graphs and data were not too different then what I was originally expecting. It seemed that my Blood Pressure did the opposite of what I was thinking it would, but my heart rates and respiratory rates did increase like I thought they might because of the change in you body’s demands after exercise. I feel that there was a difference just because I was wrong on my assumption about my blood pressure because I didn’t seem to understand exactly how it changes with activities.

My conclusion to this lab is that the new understanding of heart rates, respiratory rates and blood pressure will change differently for each person and for me it allows a better understanding of what happens to my body during different exercises. Each of our different respiratory and cardiovascular organs work together to maintain a healthy pulse and breathing pattern and our heart needs blood forced through it to produce it’s beat. This shows that each of the parameters we tested correlate to the other.