Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of all subjects, and for male and female sub-groups. Values are means (±SD).
Males
(n=36)
Females
(n=20)
All
(n=56)
Age (years)
42.1 (10.7)
37.7 (11.9)
40.5 (11.2)
Mass (kg)
81.4 (11.3)
63.1 (5.9)
**
74.8 (13.1)
HR
max
(beat·min
-1
)
175 (11)
177 (10)
176 (11)
VO
2max
(L·min
-1
)
4.5 (.6)
3.2 (.5)
**
4.1 (.41)
VO
2max
(ml·kg
-1
·min
-1
)
56.2 (9.6)
51.3 (8.6)
54.5 (9.5)
O
2max
(ml·kg
-1
·beat
-1
)
.321 (.056)
.289 (.041)
*
.310 (.053)
Power at VO
2max
(Watts·kg
-1
)
4.4 (.7)
4.2 (.6)
4.4 (.7)
Power at [La
-
]
4mmol
3.1 (.6)
2.9 (.5)
3.0 (.6)
* and ** denote p < 0.05 andp < 0.01 using a Student -test for unpaired samples of equal variance