Imagine you own a popular gym. You have several personal trainers providing workouts and fitness support to your gym members. Your gym has a particular training plan that all the personal trainers use. You want to evaluate the effectiveness of your training plan against another gym’s training plan for your members. You would like to run an experiment to evaluate the difference between the plans. Based on the outcome, you plan to create an advertising campaign to promote your training plan. 

Consider what research design and scientific method you would use to conduct your analysis as well as any possible extraneous variables that might complicate your research.

Assessment Deliverable

Write a 700- to 875-word proposal for your potential training plan experiment in which you:

• Describe the scientific method and how it is used in psychological research.
• Describe which research method you would use to evaluate your gym’s training plan against the other training plan.
• Outline specific details about how you would recruit participants, how many you would recruit to participate, and how you would collect the data. Provide a hypothesis about what you might find.
• Describe at least 2 extraneous variables that might influence the outcomes of your evaluation. Explain at least 1 way you might be able to avoid or mitigate their influence.

Cite at least 2 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references according to APA guidelines.