Brian Tombs

Slm 521

Web Drop-in # 5 Activity

 

Stationary Bike/Cardiovascular Work-out

 

Introduction: 

To maintain a healthy lifestyle, a good cardiovascular routine is needed.  There are several ways to obtain a cardio workout.  A few of the ways are: aerobic exercise, running or jogging, swimming, step aerobics, and riding a bicycle.  A healthy heart rate increases with activity then remains stable throughout the peak of the routine.  The “cool down period” of the exercise, should allow the heart rate to decrease to the normal resting heart rate for each individual.    

 

Activity:

Students should visit the following websites and view the information provided about target heart rates, physical activity, and cardiovascular workouts.  While viewing these sites, students should focus on the cardiovascular workout and how the heart rate changes throughout the exercise.

 

Activity Links –

 

Exercise Prescription – There are an abundance of links on this website, including, among others, those for beginners, weight training, kinesiology, aerobic conditioning, and exercise and sport psychology.  The site also provides very useful information about the importance of proper exercise habits.   http://www.exrx.net/

Teacher’s Fitness Desk – This website provides ideas for teaching children how to safely balance healthy eating with daily exercise.  The National Heart and American Heart Associations helped sponsor this website. http://www.kidshealthandfitness.com.au/indexpre.html

 

Fitness Articles – This site provides a number of various health and fitness articles.  The topics include aerobic exercise, healthy dieting, strength training, running and weekly fitness tips.  http://www.timeforfitness.com/

 

Students should go to each website and review the literature that is specifically based on cardiovascular exercise and heart rate.  

 

 Exercise and Health – This website is sponsored by The American Heart Association.  There are links including an exercise diary, where one can keep track of his or her exercise progress, a fitness resources link, where one can read frequently asked health and exercise questions. http://www.justmove.org/home.cfm

 

 

Assignment:

 

After reading the information on the above links, students should:

 

  1. Create a cardiovascular workout for themselves using a stationary bike.  This routine should last approximately 35 to 40 minutes. 
  2. Once the routine is created, students should then construct a graph representing the correlation between exercise and heart rate.  When creating the graph, be sure to label the X-Axis with the Heart Rate.  Label the Y- Axis with time intervals at every five (5) minutes. 

-Make sure to begin with the resting heart rate (heart rate before beginning the activity).  

-Be sure to represent the “cool down period” on your graph.

  1. After the graph is complete, write a brief paragraph explaining the correlation between your heart rate and exercise.  

-Be sure to tell what happens to heart rate as exercise increases and what happens during     the “cool down period.”  Use the graph to identify the specific correlation.