Table 1: Participant characteristics.

 

 

 

Sex

 

 

Fitness

 

 

 

Fitness within Sex

 

 

Measure

Overall

Males

Females

P

High

Low

P

HFM

LFM

P

HFF

LFF

P

n (M/F)

22

12

10

 

11 (6/5)

11 (6/5)

 

6

5

 

5

5

 

 

Age (years)

23.00

(3.88)

23.17

(4.56)

22.90

(3.31)

 

0.879

23.81

(4.60)

22.26

(3.22)

 

0.373

25.00

(5.79)

21.80

(1.92)

 

0.271

22.20

(2.58)

23.60

(4.09)

 

0.537

Height (centimeters)

172.41

(7.82)

177.15 (6.39)a

166.73 (6.85)a

 

0.001

172.66

(5.90)

172.16

(10.55)

 

0.892

175.93 (6.33)b

178.36 (7.60)c

 

0.577

170.6

(3.72)

162.86 (7.38)bc

 

0.070

Weight (kilograms)

76.24

(12.74)

84.43 (11.72)a

66.41 (7.39)a

 

0.001

74.87

(6.58)

77.61

(5.46)

 

0.654

74.51 (4.99)b

90.46 (12.54)c

 

0.081

68.33 (4.97)bc

64.49 (8.82)bc

 

0.444

Fat-Free Mass (kilograms)

 

57.92

(11.95)

 

66.39 (10.09)a

 

47.75 (5.42)a

 

0.001

 

58.41

(8.27)

 

57.42

(16.09)

 

0.858

 

63.61 (6.50)b

 

71.66 (12.54)c

 

0.202

 

50.54 (2.80)bc

 

44.95 (6.23)bc

 

0.105

Fat Mass (kilograms)

18.32

(4.26)

18.04

(4.22)

18.66

(3.88)

 

0.728

16.46 (3.80)a

20.18 (3.35)a

 

0.024

15.80

(4.84)

21.03

(0.70)

 

0.042

17.78

(3.47)

19.53

(4.46)

 

0.510

 

Body Fat (%)

23.60

(5.37)

20.89 (3.91)a

26.99 (4.27)a

 

0.001

21.43

(4.46)

25.93

(5.11)

 

0.817

19.68 (4.69)b

22.98 (2.59)c

 

0.197

25.92 (3.54)ab

30.14

(4.18)abc

 

0.012

Visceral Adipose Tissue (grams)

 

242.15

(94.21)

 

290.40 (87.30)a

 

181.85 (56.81)a

 

0.002

227.70

(80.93)

a

277.00

(89.18)

a

 

0.027

 

246.6

(81.35)

 

353.80 (68.34)c

 

0.045

 

194.2 (64.88)c

 

211.0 (53.63)c

 

0.667

Waist-to-Hip Ratio

1.28

(0.08)

1.22 (0.06)a

1.34 (0.05)a

0.001

1.27

(0.05)

1.28

(0.10)

0.812

1.24 (0.04)b

1.18 (0.09)c

0.258

1.34 (0.05)c

1.33 (0.06)bc

0.999

V̇ O2peak (ml•kg-1•min-

1)

 

40.92

(6.55)

 

42.79

(7.81)

 

38.65

(5.42)

 

0.173

 

46.64 (4.57)a

 

35.19 (3.17)a

 

0.001

 

49.21 (3.97)ab

 

37.90 (2.69)ac

 

0.001

 

43.10

(3.73)abc

 

34.20

(1.67)abc

 

0.002

Mitochondria oxidative capacity

(ODsec-1)

 

1.56

(0.63)

 

1.66

(0.79)

 

1.42

(0.46)

 

0.485

 

1.85 (0.80)a

 

1.20 (0.15)a

 

0.040

 

2.00

(0.95)

 

1.24

(0.18)

 

0.115

 

1.75

(0.58)

 

1.17

(0.09)

 

0.104

Note: HFM: High Fitness Males; LFM: Low Fitness Males; HFF: High Fitness Females; LWF: Low Fitness Females. asignificantly different between groups P ≤ 0.05; bsignificantly different between groups P ≤ 0.05; csignificantly different between groups P ≤ 0.05