Table 1.

Participant and performance characteristics.

	Males	Females	P value
N	20	19	n/a
Age (years)	22 ± 2	22 ± 2	0.500
Height (cm)	178.9 ± 5.8	166.5 ± 8.4	<0 . 001
Body mass (kg)	80.7 ± 9.5	64.5 ± 7.6	<0 . 001
Pre-exercise MVIC torque (Nm)	262.5 ± 52.6	164.0 ± 31.6	<0 . 001
Post-exercise MVIC torque (Nm)	161.3 ± 44.8	115.0 ± 30.5	0 . 001
Mechanical work
Worktotal (kJ)	50.9 ± 8.3	38.2 ± 8.5	<0 . 001
% decrement (%)	33.1 ± 8.0	26.0 ± 9.5	0 . 016

Bold values indicate p values smaller than 0.05.