Table 5.

Comparison of the HRV metrics obtained during the resting stage and the SCWT. A ↓ indicates a decrease in the HRV metrics and ↑ an increase. A p-value lower than 0.05 indicates that the differences between the rest and the SCTW were significant. The effect size is reported as CLES.

	Mean int.	SDNN	pNN50	RMSSD	LF	HF	LF/HF	SD2
James One Rest → SCWT	↓; p = 0.002 CLES = 0.633	↓; p = 0.005 CLES = 0.623	↓; p = 0.008 CLES = 0.602	↓; p = 0.017 CLES = 0.611	↓; p = 0.082 CLES = 0.556	↓; p = 0.003 CLES = 0.651	↑; p = 0.408 CLES = 0.602	↓; p = 0.009 CLES = 0.633
Polar H10 Rest → SCWT	↓; p = 0.002 CLES = 0.636	↓; p = 0.015 CLES = 0.623	↓; p = 0.171 CLES = 0.528	↓; p = 0.055 CLES = 0.571	↓; p = 0.117 CLES = 0.571	↓; p = 0.008 CLES = 0.605	↓; p = 0.931 CLES = 0.556	↓; p = 0.017 CLES = 0.620