Heart rate

of how to calculate maximal heart rates and using a heart rate monitor to track our progress. What better reward is more tangible than something you can see, feel and measure? Dr. Ratey emphasizes that without the proper equipment such as a heart rate monitor, an engaged athlete might look like he lacks motivation or is lazy but this can be deceiving. Dr. Ratey sets out to prove this everywhere in this book by explaining the rationale for maintaining a maximal heart rate, what the difference in…

Within the past few decades sports have experienced major revolutions. These major changes have resulted in new and more intense uses of the human body. More has become expected of athletes in professional sports. They are expected to be bigger, faster and stronger than those that played before them. Nonetheless, not all sports require the same abilities from their athlete's. High speed sports such as soccer and basketball depend upon different athletic abilities than sports such as tennis and…

A fungus. That’s how the human race was taken out. Pathetic. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. Also known as the zombie virus, it was discovered by British Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1859. It affected ants of the Camponotini tribe. The infected ant would leave its nest and travel to an area with the perfect temperature and humidity for fungal growth, then the ant would use its mandibles to hang on a leaf upside down until the inevitable death that would follow. Over the next one hundred and…

beside me and smile as I scoot closer. I watch him for a moment and my breath hitches as I notice something off about him, he is completely still. My body runs cold, I can’t even see where his chest should be rising and falling with each breath. My heart flutters before coming to a dead stop in my…

Throughout life everyone is faced with challenging obstacles that they have to overcome, sadly I learned this for myself sooner than most. In October of 2012 I became a licensed driver in the state of Virginia. I was your typical sixteen year old boy with plans on taking road trips, modifying my car to increase its performance, and planning on never riding the school bus again. In three short months my world was turned upside down and I never thought it would be right again. It was December…

J Sci (2014) explain how stress increase each time more in life of humans. Arab J Sci makes an experiment where he test and measure in a simple way stress in the participant’s in different ways. Hence, through Stroop test the research can tested heart rate and blood pressure. The purpose of the experiment is that participants measure and control their levels of stress avoiding that in the future the will have damages in their health for stress. The experiment consist in two completely different…

Pros: Easy to build, Good Price Cons: Big gaps between some parts The Petit'GGuy Winning Yellow is a nice little model that’s part of the Gundam family that can be completed in about 20 minutes if built as described in the directions. Let me start by saying that this model is more of a toy than model. It’s the perfect for a child that’s just starting to build models. No glue is necessary, parts go together easily, and stay together really well. The head, arms, and legs all move and it can be…

greater than normal. (Beam, Adams, 2014) When a person has high blood pressure the body has to work harder to push blood through the circulatory system. This puts stresses on the body that can be treated with medication or lifestyle modifications. The heart works harder to pump blood from the left ventricle when a person has hypertension because it is working against a greater resistance. This places an increased chronic strain on the cardiovascular system, including the arteries and arterioles.…

As William Shakespeare stated, “Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.” Edgar Allan Poe’s horror fiction, short story, “The Tell Tale Heart”, presents a dynamic character who does something wrong and feels guilty about it later in the story. Every night the narrator, a madman, would watch over the old man he was planning to kill. On the eighth night he watched over the man, the narrator killed him and hid his body underneath the floor of the old man’s house which made him feel proud. Soon the…

games affect your heart rate? If someone were to play a video game, then their heart rate would be higher than before they played the game. The independent variable was playing the video game, and the dependent variable was their heart rate after playing. Some control variables were the location, temperature, and game. The control group was the heart rate before playing the game, while the experimental group was the game. The important procedures were; Take participants heart rate. Have them…