A sports scientist is conducting an experiment to investigate how different warm-up routines affect athletic acceleration. They recruit 15 sprinters from a local athletics club to participate in a repeated measures design with two conditions:
Condition 1 – The sprinters complete a structured 15-minute dynamic stretching routine. Immediately afterwards, their sprint times are measured over a 60-metre distance using automated laser-gate timing gates.
Condition 2 – One week later, the same sprinters return to complete a 15-minute static stretching routine, followed immediately by the same 60-metre timed sprint.
Briefly explain how the sports scientist would carry out a pilot study in this case.
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