EVALUATE THE CARDIOVASCULAR VALUE OF ACTIVITIES

Exercise affects your heart rate. The harder you exercise, the harder your heart has to beat to pump your blood to your muscles and vital organs. Activity should be sustained in the Target Heart Rate Zone for maximum benefit.

ACTIVITY
HEART RATE

Rest for one minute

Do three stretching exercise

Walk slowly around the gym two minutes

Jump rope for one minute

Jog in place slowly for 3 minutes

Run as fast as you can for 1 minute

Jog for five minutes

Do a cool-down stretch for 1 minute

Rest for one minute

1. Which activities caused your heart rate to increase the most? ___________________________

 

2. Name five activities that you participate in outside of school that causes your heart rate to increase.

a.____________________b.___________________

c.____________________d.___________________

e.______________________

3. Make a bar graph of your heart rate for each exercise you did.

 

 

4. Did any of the activities take you out of you Target Heart Rate Zone?

 

 

5. Which ones had you below your Zone?

 

 

6. Which ones had you above your Zone?

 

 

7. What is your Target Heart Rate Zone?

 

 

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