Cardiovascular Fitness Lab Report

For this experiment the hypothesis was that as body mass index goes up cardiovascular fitness will decrease. He based our hypothesis on the fact that if a person has a higher body mass index that would generally mean that the person would not be in the best physical shape. Taking that into consideration, a person with a heavier physical shape will have bad physical health. The heart is something that correlates directly to physical health, which is what makes me believe us believe that someone with a high body mass index will have low cardiovascular fitness. When you have low cardiovascular fitness the heart has to put more effort into working, which is the scenario that we used to generate our hypothesis. My prediction is that if body mass index is high the specific person will have low cardiovascular fitness. Based on the knowledge of

We did this by finding our heart beat in our heart beat in our neck using our index and our middle finger. After we did this we set up our stepping stool which was twenty-three centimeters. Before starting we set the timer to zero. After we finished we recorded our time every fifteen seconds until our heart beat was back to resting. Then, we calculated our BMI manually. To do this I had to divide my weight in kilograms by my height in meters squared. When I did method I got I got 33.53 as my body mass index but then I decided to compare my results. I used a hand held BMI machine to calculate my body mass index and I ended up getting the same answer approximately. This verified that I did my BMI calculations were correct. The last thing that I did was recording the class data so that I can make the graph. This was the methods and the materials that we used during the experiment and helped make the events go by faster and make sure that all of the information is accurate so that when we recorded our