Exercise

In the Exercise article what I liked about the article kind of goes along with what we were talking about in class as far as zoning in on what the experimenters want when it comes to participants as well as focusing on those who have problems with their sleeping habits as compared to those who get adequate amounts of sleep every night. Also another thing that I found interesting is that the experimenters choose to focus on those who are older (55+ years old) rather than college aged participants whose day to day is more stressful on average than a person in their upper 50’s (to a point). I like this because these participants have a clear pattern of some sort of sleep disorder that would be clearly impacted by a change in amount of physical activity performed making this experiment pretty straight forward, theoretically.

What I didn’t really like is that basically in the middle or close to the end of the experiment they were thinking they needed to throw out “17 participant nights” because of technical difficulties like a weak battery which is definitely something that should have been checked prior to the start of the experiment, well given that the participants were instructed to charge them which isn’t clearly stated in the Methods section. But luckily they only had to eliminate one of the participants’ score.

This article, I feel, is relatable to the general public in the sense that we all know someone in the age range of the participants and will one day become this age whether we like it or not and that is the time where physical activity is a must in order to remain healthy physically and in order to gain the best amount of sleep possible so that we are working with all our faculties. I definitely understand what these people go through because almost every night I find myself waking up around the same time once or twice in the middle of the night, tossing and turning, I just seem to easily fall out of my deep sleep. And on the occasion where I work out I do find it easier to fall asleep probably because I’m so tired I can’t bear to move. But we all need exercise in our daily lives to keep us fit in every aspect.