Table 1.

Subjects characteristics by gender

	Male	Female
n	9	12
Age (year)	15.8 ± 1.1	15.7 ± 1
Height (m)	1.76 ± 0.05a	1.62 ± 0.06
Weight (kg)	69.5 ± 10.5a	55.2 ± 7.5
BMI (kg m−2)	22.4 ± 2.6	21 ± 2.6
$\dot{V}{\mathrm{O}}_{2\mathrm{peak}}$ (L min−1)	3.06 ± 0.44a	1.8 ± 0.3
$\dot{V}{\mathrm{O}}_{2\mathrm{peak}}$ (mL kg−1 min−1)	44.4 ± 6.2a	32.5 ± 3
HRpeak (bpm1)	190 ± 8	191 ± 6
WR at $\dot{V}{\mathrm{O}}_{2\mathrm{peak}}$ (W)	222 ± 29a	142 ± 18
LTGE (L min−1)	1.56 ± 0.28a	0.89 ± 0.16
LTGE (mL kg−1 min−1)	22.3 ± 3.6a	16.2 ± 2.4
WR at LTGE (W)	115 ± 23a	73 ± 14

^a P < 0.05 significantly different from female.