EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY Project (EP Project) Part I The Exercise Physiology Project

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EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGY Project (EP Project) Part I The Exercise Physiology Project will total 15% of your course grade, divided as follows EP Project Part 1-Hypothesis and Predictions (2% of course grade) · EP Project Part 11-Data collection (1% of course grade) · EP Project Part III-Final Lab Report (12% of course grade) Please read the Overview of Exercise Physiology Project before you begin this part of the Assignment. You should understand the full scope of what is required in this project before beginning Part I EP Project part 1: Hypothesis and Predictions (2%) During this project, you will observe the changes that occur to your body after physical exercisestress) and link these changes to the maintenance of homeostasis. The specific parameters you'll be measuring are heart rate and breathing rate. You'll be rcise and during a recovery p eriod, and will be comparing the data you collect for yourself with data that has been collected by other students. You should have only one variable, and hold other characterisitcs constant. You must not collect data for the experimet on any individual other than yourself The first part of an experiment is to develop a hypothesis, based on your current knowledge of a subject. To help you develop your hypothesis, you should be familiar with the material referred to in this assignment. Read pages 4 to 6 in the textbook. Review the videos linked below Your hypothesis should be based on a variable that is testable within the scope of this project. It should also be safe for you to measure or do.The variables we typically collect as part of this project include things like the subject's age, sex, weight, fitness level smoking habits. If there are others you think might be interesting and appropriate, please suggest them on the discussion board and we can consider adding them. We don't want to have to deal with too many variables for this particular project, as it can become quite complicated for the experiment. For the project, you will create a hypothesis about one of the variables. I will include a far-fetched example here, just to give you an idea. Our imaginative idea (which would form our hypothesis) might be that the amount of pigment in the eye is correlated with faster recovery after exercise. We could thus predict that brown-eyed subjects would recover more quickly than blue-eyed subjects Next week, you will collect data on yourself, and compare your data to that collected by a subset of this years and possibly previous classes. Before you start collecting data you must sign a consent form, which will be posted on Blackboard. You will need to compare yourself to at least two other individuals, at least one of whom should not share the variable you're measuring. In other words, using the example in the previous paragraph, if you have brown eyes, you should compare yourself to at least two other individuals, at least one of whom has blue eyes. The subjects you choose to compare yourself to should otherwise be as similar as possible to you in all of the variables except eye colour. For something like weight, which might be difficult to match exactly, you can use a range. The data for comparison will be posted on Blackboard For ideas and inspiration, listen to a specialist in exercise physiology, uploaded by iHealthTube on 9 Jul 2010

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Hypothesis statement: Normal subjects would recover faster than the over-weight subjects.

Background: Body weight has been considered as a major indicator of a person fitness. Recent studies showed that weight fluctuation is an indicator of various diseases in human population. Hence, it is important to study the role of body weight in recovery after physical outburst.

Few possible predictions can be:

a) Normal weight subjects show fast recovery in comparison to overweight subjects.

b) Body weight does not play any role in recovery. In this case, both overweight and normal subjects will show similar recovery  

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