Correlations between Repeated Use of Dry Sauna for 4 x 10 Minutes, Physiological Parameters, Anthropometric Features, and Body Composition in Young Sedentary and Overweight Men: Health Implications
Table 2
Comparison of the arithmetic means of physiological parameters (N = 45) after every sauna session [differences in arithmetic means are highly statistically significant )-post hoc LSD test].
Parameter
Sauna session
Difference
1
2
3
4
Mean
SD
min-max
Mean
SD
min-max
Mean
SD
min-max
Mean
SD
min-max
F
p
[bpm]
83.07
8.30
67-103
88.96
8.07
71-103
98.84
9.36
72-114
108.18
11.38
80-128
62.74
<0.001
[bpm]
98.00
7.41
84-114
109.67
6.44
97-121
121.36
5.63
102-131
133.36
5.54
116-145
261.92
<0.001
[bpm]
115.51
9.44
92-131
129.16
8.30
110-150
135.73
6.03
122-147
144.82
5.80
135-168
120.05
<0.001
Recovery time [h]
0.20
0.40
0-1
0.84
0.47
0-2
1.71
0.51
1-3
2.69
0.51
1-3
231.04
<0.001
PTE-Peak Training Effect
1.22
0.13
1.0-1.7
1.51
0.21
1.2-2.0
1.90
0.18
1.4-2.2
2.26
0.19
2.0-2.7
282.74
<0.001
Energy expenditure [kcal]
73.04
12.36
52-94
93.82
10.91
74-109
114.91
8.95
91-134
131.40
10.85
109-153
246.40
<0.001
[mL/kg/min]
14.44
2.41
10-20
18.24
2.49
15-23
22.16
2.60
16-26
26.44
2.50
21-31
191.22
<0.001
[mL/kg/min]
20.44
3.73
13-27
24.82
3.54
18-33
26.93
3.22
19-32
30.40
2.73
24-35
70.49
<0.001
[mL/kg]
1.78
0.70
1-4
3.27
1.59
1-7
6.53
2.51
2-13
12.89
3.76
5-20
186.67
<0.001
[mL/kg]
3.93
1.47
2-8
7.69
2.62
4-14
13.58
3.92
7-22
25.31
6.71
14-39
226.34
<0.001
Respiratory [brpm]
17.18
1.35
15-20
18.93
1.63
15-23
20.87
1.47
18-25
23.44
1.85
20-27
128.96
<0.001
Respiratory [brpm]
22.76
1.36
20-25
24.89
1.68
22-29
26.24
1.60
24-31
29.62
2.72
25-37
102.06
<0.001
Systolic blood pressure-SBP [mmHg]
128.40
8.74
110-145
132.02
8.04
115-147
135.51
8.01
119-151
140.67
7.55
126-158
18.74
<0.001
Diastolic blood pressure-DBP [mmHg]
82.89
6.55
72-96
85.31
6.07
73-103
88.93
7.12
75-110
94.27
9.00
80-121
20.82
<0.001
Physical effort
Easy 107 [bpm]
464.1
125.6
152-600
233.2
161.7
7-493
68.0
105.9
0-397
4.5
11.5
0-63
142.2
<0.001
Moderate 107-124 [bpm]
133.1
124.6
0-447
312.7
163.1
57-573
265.8
131.0
55-557
79.7
100.1
2-484
31.1
<0.001
Difficult 125-141 [bpm]
2.8
10.2
0-62
53.0
65.5
0-279
263.5
157.4
0-540
416.7
134.2
53-592
140.5
<0.001
Very Difficult 142-159 [bpm]
0.0
0.0
0-0
1.1
5.6
0-36
2.7
11.4
0-73
99.0
127.6
0-456
26.2
<0.001
Maximal 160 [bpm]
All values are zero
indicates that the difference between the first and the second sauna session was not significant only for DBP (close to significance, p = 0.115).
