Table 1.

Sample demographics.

Group	N	Age	Education	Total training
Adult male athletes	21	24.85 (4.40)	11.76 (0.94)	11.61 (4.75)
Adult female athletes	9	20.55 (1.23)	11.22 (1.09)	9.66 (1.5)
Junior male athletes	24	17.58 (0.92)	9.95 (0.88)	5.25 (2.43)
Junior female athletes	33	16.27 (1.06)	9.48 (1.14)	5.43 (1.94)
Adult male controls	18	23.33 (3.04)	14.61 (2.43)	–
Adult female controls	9	21.55 (1.50)	13.88 (1.38)	–
Junior male controls	18	17.33 (1.13)	10.33 (0.59)	–
Junior female controls	22	16.45 (1.53)	9.72 (0.88)	–

Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) in years are given.