. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2014 Nov;46(11):2091–2098. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000000343

Table 1.

Subject characteristics

	Males (n=11)	Females (n=11)
Age (yr)	20.8 ± 0.7	21.5 ± 0.9
Weight (kg)	76.5 ± 4.1^*	58.4 ± 1.9
Height (cm)	178.6 ± 2.3	167.3 ± 2.3
BMI (kg/m²)	23.9 ± 0.9^*	21.1 ± 0.5
Body fat (%)	13.8 ± 2.5^*	23.6 ± 0.6
VO₂ peak (ml/kg/min)	46.7 ± 1.2	42.0 ± 1.2
Baseline Steps	8,752 ± 513	9,100 ± 215
Active Intervention (steps/day)	13,959 ± 719^†	12,584 ± 413
Inactive Intervention (steps/day)	4291 ± 160	4155 ± 245

Values are mean ± standard deviations. BMI: Body Mass Index; VO_2max: Maximum aerobic capacity.

P<0.05 for differences between genders based on ANOVA.

^†

P<0.05 differences between intervention steps based on ANOVA.