Laura+C14

Laura C 2013 - 2014
 * THE STUDY OF FLEXIBILITY AND WHAT IT AFFECTS **

The purpose of this study was to see how different factors effected flexibility. Flexibility is defined as the measure of range around a joint and is vital to one’s everyday lives. A test subject did 4 different types of stretches for 15 sec each and was measured in cm to see how much the deepness of the split changed. It was proven that the “Knees to Chest” Stretch was the most effective and the “Lunges” stretch was the least. This is because the “Knees to Chest” stretch was the hardest to hold for the entire 15 sec and in turn gave the best stretch to the muscles.
 * ABSTRACT **

**EXPERIMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FUTURE EXPERIMENTS** An improvement to this experiment would be to have a definite place on the test subjects' thighs to measure, because that way each measurement would be exact and equal to the others. Another possibility for improvement of these experiments would be to get more willing test subjects so that more data could be collected, therefore making it easier to analyze. A possible followup experiment would be to have test subjects do their splits do different music to see if music has any effect on flexibility. Another followup experiment could be to see if room temperature effects flexibility.

To read the complete ISP Paper for this experiment, click on the PDF file link below.