Ab Circle Lab Report
The “Ab circle”,as effective as good old-fashioned sit ups?
Introduction:
The “Ab Circle” a contraption that claims to provide the same amount of tone and core as doing sit ups. This device is what the lab is going to test, so that if someone like a trainer wanted to use this with one of their client’s or if an athlete needed to do a workout in the off-season to stay in shape, or if a student wanted another option to get abs during the semester. To compare sit ups to the “Ab Circle” the groups in the experiment would require random assignment within the population used for the study. The control group doing standard sit-ups versus the treatment group using the “Ab Circle” will have little confounding variables to get the best results possible. …show more content…
Which would impact the person during the exercise because higher the person’s electrical muscle activity the more fatigued the participant could feel. It is hypothesized that exercising with the “Ab Circle” generated a smaller amount of skeletal muscle electrical activity as performing sit ups.
Methods:
The experiment consisted of 1,000 Pennsylvania State University students, all from ages 18-21 and all in the process of receiving an undergraduate degree from the institution. The students are split with about 500 male and 500 female, and of similar ethnic backgrounds. Each group(experimental and control) had about 500 students with equal amount of men and women, and ethnic backgrounds to make to the two groups as similar as possible. This helped to eliminate confounding variables which could have impacted the experiment's results. The EMG(or electromyography) and the AD Instruments Powerlab system to see the data, was used to measure the amount of electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, and the electrodes were placed on parts of the ab muscles on the stomach after being rubbed by alcohol swabs. The experiment was over the course of three days, the first day was used to obtain a baseline for all of the participants, which required the
Introduction:
The “Ab Circle” a contraption that claims to provide the same amount of tone and core as doing sit ups. This device is what the lab is going to test, so that if someone like a trainer wanted to use this with one of their client’s or if an athlete needed to do a workout in the off-season to stay in shape, or if a student wanted another option to get abs during the semester. To compare sit ups to the “Ab Circle” the groups in the experiment would require random assignment within the population used for the study. The control group doing standard sit-ups versus the treatment group using the “Ab Circle” will have little confounding variables to get the best results possible. …show more content…
Which would impact the person during the exercise because higher the person’s electrical muscle activity the more fatigued the participant could feel. It is hypothesized that exercising with the “Ab Circle” generated a smaller amount of skeletal muscle electrical activity as performing sit ups.
Methods:
The experiment consisted of 1,000 Pennsylvania State University students, all from ages 18-21 and all in the process of receiving an undergraduate degree from the institution. The students are split with about 500 male and 500 female, and of similar ethnic backgrounds. Each group(experimental and control) had about 500 students with equal amount of men and women, and ethnic backgrounds to make to the two groups as similar as possible. This helped to eliminate confounding variables which could have impacted the experiment's results. The EMG(or electromyography) and the AD Instruments Powerlab system to see the data, was used to measure the amount of electrical activity produced by skeletal muscles, and the electrodes were placed on parts of the ab muscles on the stomach after being rubbed by alcohol swabs. The experiment was over the course of three days, the first day was used to obtain a baseline for all of the participants, which required the