Table 1.

Ventilation parameters before and after intervention in experimental group (n = 11).

	Workload	Before Intervention	After Intervention	% Change	Cohen’s d
VE [L·min−1]	1 W·kg−1	38.08 ± 4.94	42.91 ± 7.27	12.57 ± 11.65	0.77
	2 W·kg−1	52.26 ± 5.59	57.23 ± 6.49	10.47 ± 15.76	0.81
	3 W·kg−1	72.81 ± 6.83	80.66 ± 10.21	11.15 ± 13.22	0.90
	4 W·kg−1	96.87 ± 13.42	101.93 ± 14.74	5.91 ± 14.45	0.35
	MEANS	65.01 ± 22.16	70.68 ± 22.52	10.02 ± 2.49
VT [L]	1 W·kg−1	1.46 ± 0.50	1.43 ± 0.34	0.47 ± 11.76	−0.08
	2 W·kg−1	1.78 ± 0.51	1.76 ± 0.43	0.05 ± 8.42	−0.04
	3 W·kg−1	2.05 ± 0.53	2.08 ± 0.45	2.67 ± 8.58	0.05
	4 W·kg−1	2.25 ± 0.57	2.32 ± 0.63	3.08 ± 7.05	0.12
	MEANS	1.89 ± 0.30	1.90 ± 0.34	1.57 ± 1.72
BF [breath·min−1]	1 W·kg−1	28.11 ± 7.44	31.30 ± 7.44	13.46 ± 16.48	0.42
	2 W·kg−1	31.41 ± 8.66	34.01 ± 8.15	11.04 ± 17.08	0.30
	3 W·kg−1	37.55 ± 8.84	39.93 ± 7.21	9.07 ± 17.38	0.29
	4 W·kg−1	44.69 ± 8.75	45.99 ± 9.83	2.75 ± 11.11	0.13
	MEANS	35.44 ± 6.32	37.81 ± 5.66	9.08 ± 3.97

V_T: tidal volume; V_E: minute ventilation; BF: breathing frequency.