Does an Increase in Heart Rate affect the height of a Vertical Jump?
Introduction:
Whether it’s dunking, spiking or getting over that bar, every athlete strives to perfect a high jump. A vertical jump is the action of increasing the centre of gravity in the vertical plane with only the use of one's own muscles (Verma, C, (2015)). The motion of a vertical jump is used in many sports including volleyball, basketball and even football. In sports such as volleyball it could mean the difference between a perfect spike or a point loss. Heart rate is simple defined as the number of beats or the amount of contractions the heart completes per minute (n.p.. (2016)). The moment you begin any sort of exercise your skeletal muscles contract and “squeeze the veins, forcing blood toward the heart,” explains The Merck Manual of Medical Information (1999). This extra blood that is pumped to the heart increases …show more content…
The increase in blood circulation allowed more oxygen to be pumped to the muscles, which would explain the sudden increase in jump height. Prior experience also allows for the participant to improve on the movements mentioned above, which in turn will also enable the partaker to jump higher. Keeping a small age bracket limits the effects of older age symptoms, an example being the speed of neuron conduction, that may skew results (Luc, J. (2016)). A study conducted by R.J Latino shows that distractions takes focus away from the task and reduces jump height (2008). These controlled variables allow for the experiment to test what it is supposed to test without being effected by outside variables. These results could then be used for further study into optimal arousal, which would impact on the way athletes train and perform high jumps. Future experiments would include gathering a larger sample size and controlling variables, this would make the results more reliable and
Introduction:
Whether it’s dunking, spiking or getting over that bar, every athlete strives to perfect a high jump. A vertical jump is the action of increasing the centre of gravity in the vertical plane with only the use of one's own muscles (Verma, C, (2015)). The motion of a vertical jump is used in many sports including volleyball, basketball and even football. In sports such as volleyball it could mean the difference between a perfect spike or a point loss. Heart rate is simple defined as the number of beats or the amount of contractions the heart completes per minute (n.p.. (2016)). The moment you begin any sort of exercise your skeletal muscles contract and “squeeze the veins, forcing blood toward the heart,” explains The Merck Manual of Medical Information (1999). This extra blood that is pumped to the heart increases …show more content…
The increase in blood circulation allowed more oxygen to be pumped to the muscles, which would explain the sudden increase in jump height. Prior experience also allows for the participant to improve on the movements mentioned above, which in turn will also enable the partaker to jump higher. Keeping a small age bracket limits the effects of older age symptoms, an example being the speed of neuron conduction, that may skew results (Luc, J. (2016)). A study conducted by R.J Latino shows that distractions takes focus away from the task and reduces jump height (2008). These controlled variables allow for the experiment to test what it is supposed to test without being effected by outside variables. These results could then be used for further study into optimal arousal, which would impact on the way athletes train and perform high jumps. Future experiments would include gathering a larger sample size and controlling variables, this would make the results more reliable and