Table 3. Relationships (Spearman’s correlations) between HRV_NOC and morning salivary level of cortisol, the amounts of hard and easy training, and overall training load during the different weeks of the study.

Week	Cortisol (μg/L)	Hard training (min)	Easy training (min)	Training load
1	-0.833*	-0.287	-0.071	-0.095
2	-0.238	-0.036	-0.048	-0.132
3	-0.524	0.024	-0.238	-0.143
4	-0.833*	-0.571	-0.264	-0.143

* p < 0.05