Intermittent Hypoxic Training at Lactate Threshold Intensity Improves Aiming Performance in Well-Trained Biathletes with Little Change of Cardiovascular Variables

Table 7

Mean values of body mass and percent of body fat in the experimental (H, n = 7) and control groups (C, n = 7) during investigation.

Variable

Group H

Cohen’s d

Group C

Cohen’s d

ANOVA

S1

S2

S3

d1

d2

d3

S1

S2

S3

d1

d2

d3

Time

Group

Interaction

BM (kg)

73.2 ± 4.2

71.7 ± 3.2

72.4 ± 3.6

0.41

0.20

0.22

71.1 ± 5.1

70.7 ± 4.3

70.9 ± 5.5

0.09

0.04

0.04

F = 3.51;

F = 0.41;

F = 1.13;

% fat

9.8 ± 4.1

9.8 ± 3.6

9.6 ± 3.9

0.01

0.07

0.08

10.4 ± 2.7

10.5 ± 1.9

9.2 ± 0.84

0.03

0.83

0.62

F = 3.06;

F = 0.03;

F = 1.31;

S1, before training; S2, 3 days after training; S3, 14 days after training. Effect size: d₁, between S1 and S2; d₂, between S2 and S3; d₃, between S1 and S3. BM—body mass; % fat—percent of body fat.