Have you even been scared or really excited and you can feel your heart beating out of your chest and you can hear it thumping? This is because these events trigger adrenaline to be released into your body. Adrenaline causes your heart rate to rise and your heart to contract harder. You may also notice that when you exercise such as running, biking, or weight lifting your heart will beat faster too! So for the next week or two I am going to be wearing a heart rate monitor and will be recording my heart rate at different times while resting. I will also be recording my heart rate during events that spike adrenaline such as being scared. I will record my heart rate while exercising too. I want to compare the heart rate by adrenaline with the heart rate by exercise because I am not sure which one will be higher or the most consistent.
Mrs. Harris
9/21/2015 07:43:07 pm
I think this is really a cool idea to understand your personal baseline for heart rate. Do you know how or what leads up to the release of adrenaline? A little more digging into the biology behind the events occurring in the body might help you form your conclusions later. I can't wait to see what actually scares you, though!
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