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Heart rates of elementary physical education students during the dancing classrooms program
Larry Nelson1, Melissa Evans, Wendy Guess
1Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas-Arlington, TX 76019-0259, USA. lnelson@uta.edu
Abstract:
We examined how different types of dance activities, along with their duration, influenced heart rate responses among fifth-grade physical education students (N = 96) who participated in the Dancing Classrooms program. Results indicated that the overall Dancing Classrooms program elicits a moderate cardiovascular heart rate response (M = 124.4 bpm), in which 47% of class time was spent above a 60% maximal heart rate threshold. The swing dance in particular (M = 143.4 bpm) stimulated a much higher heart rate level than all other dances in the program, with a mean heart rate change of 52.6 bpm. Girls (127.3 bpm) achieved marginally higher heart rates (p = .059) than boys (121.1 bpm).
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