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