Table 1. Demographic characteristics of the study participants. Data are means ± SD.
|
Outdoor training group |
Treadmill training group |
Control group |
P-value |
| Age (years) |
20.1 ± 2.2 |
20.2 ± 1.5 |
20.1 ± 1.4 |
0.970 |
| Height (cm) |
174.6 ± 5.3 |
172.4 ± 5.5 |
172.3 ± 5.1 |
0.223 |
| Body mass(kg) |
63.1 ± 6.8 |
61.2 ± 7.9 |
62.5 ± 7.5 |
0.653 |
| 1,600 m time (min)* |
6.8 ± 0.7 |
7.0 ± 0.5 |
6.9 ± 0.6 |
0.322 |
*: Participants’ pre-intervention performance in the 1-mile test was used as an inclusion criterion. Details are provided in the main text.
