Evaluation Of The Study On The Impact Of Serbian Traditional Dance On The Cardiovascular Rate Of The Human Body
Throughout this study it has been confirmed that Serbian traditional dance does indeed raise the cardiovascular rate of the human body. The concluding increase of cardiovascular heart rate after the exercise in males was 67 bpm and in females was 50 bpm. Since some of the resting heart rate results were objectively high in the average range, it might have skewed the data slightly. This can be confirmed since the average heart rate for the females was failly high considering the average lies between 60 and 80 bpm. In the male population, it is normal to see much lower resting heart rates especially when they are of athletic body type.
The experiment had various weaknesses hindering the best possible test results. The experiment was conducted in a dance studio with a high internal temperature, due to the activity inside the studio. Though all test subjects were exposed to the same conditions of air pressure and temperature, each dancing participant releases body heat, which leads to the increase of room temperature quickly. Even though the body produces sweat to cool off, it needs to work harder at this if the outside conditions are as hot/hotter then inside body conditions. To overcome this flaw, a ventilation system capable of keeping a constant temperature abruptly could be installed in order to get better results.
Another factor which needs to be taken into consideration while choosing test subjects is the presence of a smoker, as smoking affects the human cardiovascular rate. Nicotine increases C02 levels in the circulatory system forcing the heart ot beat faster in order to increase breathing rate for oxygen intake. Since one of the female test subjects is a smoker, this could have altered the final results though such a caveat might be a positive representation of larger populations as 1 in 5 do smoke. Since each individual person is different, simple controls such as average height and body mass do not make up for all the possible error in results. If one test subject did not show maximum effort then their cardiovascular rate would be different from the subject’s that did put maximum effort into the activity. This might have skewed the data in the opposite direction of the smoker caveat as the cardiovascular rate would be lower than it should have been. To get the same effort from multiple test subjects the exercise cannot be as complex as the steps learned in Serbian traditional dance, since one test subject might not be performing a certain step with the same finesse as another.
Another limit in the experiment was the way the cardiovascular rate was measured. Since the test subjects used the technique involving the finger placement upon their wrists and counting manually, despite the tutorial on how to measure properly, the test subjects might not have done it with 100% accuracy or simply miscounted their heart pulse. A much better way to measure the cardiovascular rate of an individual would have been through the use of a digital monitor which gives more accurate readings of the individual’s pulse.
