Table 1.

Baseline sex differences in participant characteristics and measures of interest (data presented as mean ± SE).

Measure	Males	Females
Age (yrs)	24.20 ± 0.71	24.10 ± 0.95
Height (cm)	180.33 ± 2.22*	165.80 ± 1.54
Body Mass (kg)	82.08 ± 4.96*	59.30 ± 3.71
Forcepeak (kg)	33.94 ± 2.86*	21.61 ± 1.01
VL–sEMGRMS (μV)	371.57 ± 72.22*	180.24 ± 26.51
RF–sEMGRMS (μV)	205.67 ± 22.30*	115.02 ± 13.37
VL–MMGRMS (m·s-2)	0.42 ± 0.04*	0.32 ± 0.04
RF–MMGRMS (m·s-2)	0.59 ± 0.04*	0.36 ± 0.03

Force_peak = peak knee extension force output; VL = vastus lateralis musculature; RF = rectus femoris musculature; sEMG_RMS = root mean square amplitude of the surface electromyographic data; MMG_RMS = root mean square amplitude of the mechanomyographic data. *Males significantly greater than Females (p < 0.05)