Results and Conclusion! (Part 1)

Welcome back to Fast and Furious, where we will be discussing about the science of sprinting!

This time, we'll be discussing about David and William's results...for Biology, at least.

Let's see...William was investigating the relationship between respiratory and cardiovascular health and the athlete's performance in track. David, however, was investigating the relationship of certain diets and their effect on the performance in track events. Strongly linked to each other!

Oh, man...looking back at the data, it would probably be for the best to label all of the runners and the diet they took for the experiments...

P1 had the balanced diet.
P2 had the vegetarian diet.
P3 had the junk food diet.

As we can observe from the table, the first participant with the balanced diet had nearly balanced heartbeat throughout the experiment, and an increased performance to boot (faster by 1 second, which is a lot in 100 m sprint standards). From this, we can infer that the participant's heartbeat became at least slightly stronger due to the decreased rate.

The second participant, with the vegetarian diet, was slower compared to everyone else. There was an increase in 2 seconds for time. However, in something that can be described as a tradeoff, his cardiovascular performance was far better compared to everyone else's.

The third participant, with the junk food diet, was the fastest among everyone. However, his heartbeats were less controlled in addition to being quicker, which suggests more labor in blood circulation.

So, conclusions then?

Let's see...we'll make it short and sweet.

Balanced diet = consistent performance in track = consistent cardiovascular performance, if not slightly better

Vegetarian diet = slower speed in track = better cardiovascular health, since blood vessels are 'clean' of fat and blood travels easily through blood vessels, less power needed to pump blood throughout body.

Junk food diet = faster speed in track = worse cardiovascular health, since fat is present in blood vessels, clogging it and making blood travel more slowly, so more power is needed for the blood to push through the fats

This supports Usain Bolt's claim of his consumption of 1000 Chicken McNuggets leading to his Olympic World Record run in the Beijing 2008 Summer Games.

Seems like Sega also did their research! Sonic the Hedgehog, anyone? Really speedy, eats chilli dogs!

Other conclusions will follow shortly, so stay tuned!