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Table 5.

Heart rate before handgrip, during handgrip, and during recovery

	Sex	Mean	Standard deviation
Baseline 5 minutes	Women	67.9	10.5
Baseline 5 minutes	Men	64.7	9.6
Baseline 3 minutes	Women	66.4	9.4
Baseline 3 minutes	Men	63.9	8.5
Handgrip 1st minute	Women	69.4	10.1
Handgrip 1st minute	Men	69.9	9.0
Handgrip 2nd minute	Women	72.4	11.0
Handgrip 2nd minute	Men	72.6	9.4
Handgrip 3rd minute	Women	73.6	10.9
Handgrip 3rd minute	Men	74.1	11.1
Recovery 1st minute	Women	66.7	10.0
Recovery 1st minute	Men	63.8	9.3
Recovery 2nd minute	Women	66.5	9.6
Recovery 2nd minute	Men	63.6	9.2
Recovery 3rd minute	Women	66.4	9.7
Recovery 3rd minute	Men	63.6	9.3

Notes: Heart rate (beats per minute) at baseline 5 minutes and 3 minutes before handgrip, 1st, 2nd and 3rd minutes of handgrip, and 1st, 2nd and 3rd minutes of recovery.