Table 6.
Changes in the VO2 values in the exercising and nonexercising groups following an 8-week period.
| VO2max (mL/kg/min) | Experimental Group | Control Group | BetweenGroups | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | Median | Min | Max | SD | Mean | Median | Min | Max | SD | t1 | p | Cohen’s d | |
| Pre | 32.2 | 32.0 | 27.4 | 38.1 | 3.6 | 32.8 | 22.7 | 26.3 | 41.2 | 4.3 | 1.08 | 0.288 | 0.151 |
| Post | 36.0 | 36.5 | 31.0 | 40.2 | 3.2 | 33.0 | 33.0 | 26.8 | 41.8 | 3.6 | 1.43 | 0.160 | 0.881 |
| differences | 3.8 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 10.9 | −0.4 | 0.2 | 10.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | −0.7 | 0.17 | 0.869 | 0.315 |
| Between examinations |
t2 = 0.872, p = 0.395, Cohen’s d = 9.50 | t2 = −0.13, p = 0.902, Cohen’s d = 0.286 | |||||||||||
t1—Student’s t-test for independent samples; t2—Student’s t-test for dependent samples; p—likelihood ratio; significant values are in bold.