Table 2.

RBC elongation index (EI), aggregation amplitude (AMP), aggregation index (AI) and aggregation half time (t½) of the subjects.

	1st week		3rd week		4th week		12th week
	BPRET on first week	APRET on first week	BPRET on third week	APRET on third week	BPRET on fourth week	APRET on fourth week	BPERT on twelfth week	APRET on twelfth week
	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE	Mean ± SE
EI (0.53 Pa)	0.061±0.004	0.076±0.008	0.074±0.005**	0.075±0.007**	0.074±0.007**	0.069±0.005	0.068±0.004	0.080±0.005**,≠≠
AMP	25.14±0.76	27.13±1.15**	27.26±0.75	26.83±1.46	25.25±0.74≠	25.48±0.71≠	25.26±0.78	26.24±0.90
AI (%)	56.64±1.55	61.85±2.34*	53.21±1.91**,ø	55.13±1.64ø	55.67±1.70øø	54.87±2.03øø	53.41±1.79øø	54.37±1.81øø
t 1/2 (s)	3.08±0.21	2.45±0.26*	3.59±0.31ø	3.20±0.21ø	3.03±0.25≠,øø	3.37±0.29øø	3.57±0.28ø	3.40±0.25øø

Values are expressed as mean ± SE. BPRET – before progressive resistance exercise training; APRET – after progressive resistance exercise training.

^*p≤0.01, difference from first week BPRET;

^**p<0.05, difference from first week BPRET values;

^øp≤0.01, difference from first week APRET;

^øøp<0.05, difference from first week APRET values;

^≠p≤0.05, difference from third week BPRET;

^≠≠p<0.05, difference from twelfth week BPRET values.