Week 7: A Week That Pulled In More Results and Lifted Spirits

Hey everybody! It’s the end of the week and I am excited to share what I was able to do!  I hope this week went for you all as it did for me. Again, I am excited to share my experiences this week with you all, so lets get right into it! 

This week, compared to the previous week, was much better. This weekend, I was able to analyze more of the data I had. Last week, I had found out that many of the clients had reported an increase in mood rating. This weekend, I analyzed people’s daily stress versus how long they have continued exercise. After plotting graph, I found that a cluster of people who had high stress levels were also the ones who continually worked out for the shortest amount of time. I then categorized the data based on people with high, medium, and low workloads. After that, I analyzed the stress levels of each category versus their respective times they have continued exercise. I found that like the first graph, many people who reported high stress levels were the people who had not worked out as often. Although I analyzed the people with high and medium workloads, I was not able to fully analyze all the data because  I did not have enough data from people who had a low workload. In the coming weeks, I want to target people who have a low workload to be able to completely analyze that group.

After discussing this with my faculty advisor and getting her approval, I then focused this week on getting more people to complete the survey. This week I was on top of that and was able to get 6 more people to take the survey. Of those 6 people, half of them reported that they had a low workload, which was good in terms of the diversity in sample group. So in terms of the rate of responses, this week was better than the last two weeks.

In the coming weeks what I hope to do is to potentially get some more people who report a low workload. Then I can analyze that group of people’s data for trends. I also wish to start targeting my control group. For the control group, I had already created a background survey.  But before I hand them out to clients, I will consult with my on site mentor and my faculty advisor regarding the questions and any potential changes to them. 

Well that’s all for this week! Next week I plan on readying my survey for my control group and I also plan on getting some people who have a low workload so I can analyze their data as well.  Just so I don’t leave you bored, I’ll share my experience with this exercise I observed this week. This week I was able to observe a myriad of exercises and how they target different muscles in the body. But one exercise that stood out to me was this ab exercise. What it entails is yourself, a bosu ball, and a mat. Basically what you do is sit up on the ball and put one hand on you stomach and one at the back of you head. You then lay down and crunch up to contract your abs. I did a set of fifteen with one side and then switched sides. I continued to do this for two rounds. To me, it looked pretty easy when observing but when I actually tried it, it was much much harder than I thought. If you guys are up to it, you can give it a try—it’s a great ab exercise actually! Again, thanks for bearing with me and  tune in next week to see how I progress!