Heart recovery time after exercise | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

Which of these statements about the heart is correct?

Your heart does not pump when you sleep.

Your heart is on the left hand side of your chest.

Your heart pumps blood around your body. ✓

Your heart pushes air around your body.
Arteries are blood vessels that …

carry blood towards the heart.

carry blood away from the heart. ✓

carry air away from the heart.

carry air towards the heart.
The number of times your heart beats in a minute is called your heart ...

'rate' ✓
When you are exercising, your heart rate …

decreases.

stays the same.

increases. ✓
Laura has been measuring her heart rate when carrying out different activities. Match the heart rate to the activity.

63 bpm

⇔

sitting at desk and writing ✓

100 bpm

⇔

walking to school ✓

132 bpm

⇔

playing football ✓
What is carried to the muscles in our blood to help them keep working?

air

oxygen ✓

water vapour

carbon dioxide

Exit quiz

How can we improve our heart recovery time?

regular exercise ✓

regular computer games

increasing time spent sitting down

increasing sugary food intake
Between 50 – 90 bpm is considered a healthy ______ heart rate for an adult.

'resting' ✓
What is heart recovery time?

The amount of time it takes to stop breathing heavily after exercise.

The amount of time it takes you to stop sweating after exercise.

The amount of time it takes heart rate to return to resting rate after exercise. ✓
At places where an ______ is close to the skin, we can use two fingers to feel our pulse and check our heart rate.

'artery' ✓
Aisha measured her heart rate, then did some exercise and measured her heart rate again at one-minute intervals. Here are her results. How long was Aisha’s recovery time?

one minute

two minutes

three minutes ✓

four minutes
Which type of diagram is best for recording changes to heart rate after exercise?

bar chart

line graph ✓

pie chart

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Key learning points

Your pulse can be felt at the wrist and other places where an artery is close to the skin.
A healthy resting heart rate for adults is between 50 and 90 beats per minute (bpm).
Recovery time is the amount of time it takes your heart to return to its resting rate after being active.
Regular exercise can improve recovery time and overall heart health.

Common misconception

Pupils may have a very narrow definition of exercise, limiting it to activities such as running or weightlifting and not including more ‘fun’ types of exercise such as dancing or trampolining.

Explain that any physical activity where we intentionally use a lot of effort to move our bodies is exercise, backing this up with all the examples in the slide deck.

Keywords

Exercise - Exercise means using a lot of effort to move our bodies so that they stay fit and healthy.
Heart rate - Heart rate is the number of times a heart beats each minute.
Pulse - Each time your heart beats it can be felt as a pulse in the arteries.
Arteries - Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
Recovery time - Recovery time is the amount of time it takes your heart to return to its resting rate after being active.