My daughter has a science project to do and I've been designated assistant. Anyone have any good/fun ideas that could be done involving swimming. If I can incorporate me swimming into a science project, I will get double mileage out of time I will spend swimming anyhow. Anyone have any thoughts?
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OK, how about this:
Get one of those bathroom scales that measures body fat percentage.
Take it to a Masters workout and an age-group workout.
Record each swimmer's percentage of body fat. Then have each swimmer get into the deep end of the pool. Have the swimmer try to float, vertically, with his arms at his sides.
Look for a correlation between percent body fat and how deep they sink when they try to float.
The hypothesis would be that the higher the percentage of body fat, the higher they will "float".
I suggested the Masters and the age group kids because I am assuming that you'd see higher body fat percentages among the Masters, and lower ones among the age group kids.
OK, how about this:
Get one of those bathroom scales that measures body fat percentage.
Take it to a Masters workout and an age-group workout.
Record each swimmer's percentage of body fat. Then have each swimmer get into the deep end of the pool. Have the swimmer try to float, vertically, with his arms at his sides.
Look for a correlation between percent body fat and how deep they sink when they try to float.
The hypothesis would be that the higher the percentage of body fat, the higher they will "float".
I suggested the Masters and the age group kids because I am assuming that you'd see higher body fat percentages among the Masters, and lower ones among the age group kids.
