The Effect of Exercise on Average

Clothespin Squeezing Rate

Period 7 Julianne Paccione

Mrs. Karle 10-3-14
Period 7 Julianne Paccione
Mrs. Karle 10-3-14
The Effect of Exercise on Average Clothespin Squeezing Rate

Purpose

The purpose of this lab is to see if exercise affects the average

clothespin squeezing rate.

Hypothesis

If you exercise prior to squeezing a clothespin, then you will

squeeze it at faster rate compared to resting prior.

Variables

Dependent variable- the squeezes per minute

Independent variable- the exercise/rest prior
Variables to keep constant- clothespin, exercise, time.

Materials

Clothespin
Chair
Timer

Method

1. Subject one will sit in chair prior to squeezing clothespin

2. Subject will squeeze clothespin for a minute and count squeezes
3. Record data for trial 1 of squeezes per minute with no exercise
4. Subject one will do jumping jacks for one minute
5. Immediately squeeze clothespin for one minute and count
squeezes
6. Record data
 7. Repeat steps with all 5 subjects twice
8. Compare data

Safety Precautions

Make sure, when preforming jumping jacks to be in an open area

so body doesn’t hit anything.

Results Table
Discussion

The graph shows that when you compare the clothespin squeezes
per minute in the control group to the clothespin squeezes per minute in
the experimental group, there is a visual difference that shows exercising
increases squeezes per minute. This applied to all the subjects in the
experiment. I can say my hypothesis was proven correct.
I can conclude that when you exercise, blood is pumped to your
heart at a faster rate. This gives you oxygen to provide energy. This is
why exercising prior, increase clothespin squeezes per minute.
There are several errors in this experiment. One error is that some
subjects did modified jumping jacks which might have affected the
outcome. Another error was that each subject was a different age, weight
and height. What also could have affected the results is there was no
way to make sure each subject counted their squeezes accurately. It
would be better if all subjects had the same characteristics including
weight, age, height, and health condition. This would help the results be
more accurate.
There are several further experiments that could be done. It would
be interesting to repeat the experiment with other exercises, like jogging
in place or push-ups. You could also do an experiment comparing
children’s average clothespin squeezing rate to adults. We could also do
research into which activities requiring hands affect the average
squeezes per minute. Such as people who play violin regularly compared
to people who don’t. Finally, it is important to repeat the experiment
with activities other than squeezing clothespins in order to see if this
conclusion is similar for all activities after exercise.