Table 1.

Descriptive statistics.

		PRE		DURING		POST
		M	SD	M	SD	M	SD
RMSSD	Control	60.58	38.55	58.56	35.87	57.52	36.07
	5-MIN	56.82	32.10	82.68	35.37	60.64	30.75
	10-MIN	55.61	34.02	83.35	37.52	60.34	35.47
	15-MIN	58.15	35.04	86.13	37.14	63.24	32.78
	20-MIN	57.91	34.79	83.95	37.64	62.33	34.52
	Control (Log)	1.71	0.25	1.70	0.24	1.68	0.27
	5-MIN (Log)	1.69	0.24	1.88	0.19	1.73	0.22
	10-MIN (Log)	1.67	0.25	1.88	0.19	1.71	0.25
	15-MIN (Log)	1.69	0.26	1.90	0.19	1.74	0.23
	20-MIN (Log)	1.69	0.25	1.88	0.19	1.73	0.24
Respiratory Frequency	Control	17.09	2.61	16.90	2.73	17.02	2.53
	5-MIN	16.78	3.03	6.58	0.28	14.18	3.02
	10-MIN	16.71	2.93	6.57	0.27	13.16	2.70
	15-MIN	17.05	2.67	6.53	0.30	12.16	2.57
	20-MIN	16.91	2.78	6.50	0.28	11.14	2.30
	Control (Log)	1.23	0.07	1.22	0.08	1.23	0.07
	5-MIN (Log)	1.22	0.08	0.82	0.02	1.14	0.10
	10-MIN (Log)	1.22	0.08	0.82	0.02	1.11	0.09
	15-MIN (Log)	1.23	0.07	0.81	0.02	1.08	0.09
	20-MIN (Log)	1.22	0.08	0.81	0.02	1.04	0.09
Heart Rate	Control	66.18	10.61	67.62	10.32	67.39	10.36
	5-MIN	67.70	10.44	69.13	7.90	67.88	9.21
	10-MIN	66.18	10.33	67.76	7.58	67.70	10.33
	15-MIN	65.41	10.98	67.78	8.37	68.02	10.05
	20-MIN	66.79	10.46	67.61	8.65	67.57	10.40
	Control (Log)	1.82	0.07	1.83	0.07	1.82	0.07
	5-MIN (Log)	1.83	0.07	1.84	0.05	1.83	0.06
	10-MIN (Log)	1.82	0.07	1.83	0.05	1.83	0.07
	15-MIN (Log)	1.81	0.07	1.83	0.06	1.83	0.06
	20-MIN (Log)	1.82	0.07	1.83	0.06	1.82	0.07

Note: RMSSD: Root mean square of successive differences.