Exercise report



Exercise report

Introduction

Valuable continuous data were collected during exercise with relative ease using the described methodology and telemetric technology. The collected Tc data indicates a progressive increase in temperature from pre-exercise to post-exercise and a decrease in temperature from post-exercise to the end of the 10-min recovery period. These data illustrate the rate at which the core temperature of the dogs elevated in response to the exercise and the environment. There was an incremental increase in temperature with each sample during exercise and an incremental decrease in temperature during recovery.

Discussion

It does not appear that the dogs reached a steady state temperature during the 20 min of exercising. The core temperatures measured in this study while dogs were exercising are similar to rectal temperatures measured in other studies using sled dogs, greyhounds, and retrievers. Further research into conditioning status, mode of exercise, stomach temperature versus rectal temperature, and the environmental influence should be conducted in order to compare the temperatures in other studies.

Statistical procedures

For analyzing the data, the statistical procedures would be used are descriptive statistics (i.e. to find mean and standard deviations in the data), correlations between the increase and decrease in the variables and t-test for analyzing the significance of the results (Lyman Ott & Michael Longnecker, 2010).

Report

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VAR00010

VAR00012

VAR00011

VAR00013

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0

Mean

2.0000

4.0000

8.0000

6.0000

10.0000

12.0000

N

1

1

1

1

1

1

Std. Deviation

.

.

.

.

.

.

60

Mean

127.0000

138.0000

122.0000

151.0000

80.0000

60.0000

N

1

1

1

1

1

1

Std. Deviation

.

.

.

.

.

.

61

Mean

128.0000

139.0000

123.0000

150.0000

81.0000

60.0000

N

1

1

1

1

1

1

Std. Deviation

.

.

.

.

.

.

62

Mean

128.5000

139.0000

124.0000

150.0000

82.0000

60.5000

N

2

2

2

2

2

2

Std. Deviation

.70711

1.41421

.00000

.00000

.00000

.70711

Total

Mean

102.8000

111.8000

100.2000

121.4000

67.0000

50.6000

N

5

5

5

5

5

5

Std. Deviation

56.35335

60.26774

51.54804

64.51201

31.87475

21.58240

Analyzing the results

It is well known that exercising in hot environments can increase core temperature especially if dehydrated. Dehydration impairs thermoregulation as well as cardiovascular, metabolic and central nervous system functions. Elevated core temperature has been reported to affect cognitive ability, elevate sympathetic nervous system activity, increase central fatigue, and ultimately lead to heat exhaustion/stroke if left unattended. When considering that prolonged exercise in the heat has been shown to primarily be limited by thermoregulatory and fluid balance factors, it can be said that ...