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.