Research Article

Sex Moderated Mediation of the Musculoskeletal Fitness in Relationship between High-Intensive Interval Training Performing during Physical Education Classes and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Healthy Boys and Girls

Table 1

Descriptive statistics of the baseline measured variables and residual changes (RC) in groups.

GroupBoysGirls
InterventionControlInterventionControl
VariableMean (±sd)
95% CI
Mean (±sd)
95% CI
Mean (±sd)
95% CI
Mean (±sd)
95% CI
RC mean
95% CI
RC mean
95% CI
RC mean
95% CI
RC mean
95% CI

Body height (cm)176.09 (6.54)177.63 (5.84)164.79 (6.04)163.99 (7.27)
173.5-178.68174.72-180.53162.7805-166.81161.66-166.31
0.20.160.140.19
0.13-0.260.09-0.220.1032-0.180.13-0.25

Body weight (kg)63.74 (12.15)64.68 (8.72)56.35 (7.61)56.76 (12.52)
58.93-68.5560.35-69.0253.81-58.8952.75-60.77
-1.611.280.130.34
-5.46-2.230.27-2.3-0.37-0.63-0.13-0.81

BMI (kg/m2)20.51 (3.44)20.48 (2.43)20.69 (1.94)21 (3.66)
19.15-21.8719.27-21.6920.04-21.3319.83-22.17
-0.19-0.110.040.12
-0.5-0.11-0.49-0.28-0.14-0.21-0.06-0.3

CRF (FI) (pts)44.98 (4)44.06 (3.46)43.33 (4.93) 41.6845.53 (3.4)
43.4-46.5742.33-45.78- 44.9744.44-46.62
3.411.12.890.6
1.5-5.32-0.26-2.461.8-3.97-0.45-1.66

Hand grip (kg)45.22 (8.09)42.83 (7.14)31.27 (4.28)31.83 (6.31)
42.02-48.4239.28-46.3829.84-32.729.81-33.84
1.022.251.122.03
0.08-1.96-0.68-5.170.31-1.941.05-3.01

Sit-ups ()26.44 (3.19)26.94 (3.1)19.27 (4.76)20.6 (3.62)
25.18-27.7125.4-28.4817.68-20.8619.44-21.76
5.176.390.85-1.43
3.91-6.422.95-9.83-0.18-1.88-2.32--0.55

Sit-and-reach (cm)21.78 (7.85)25.72 (8.37)27.28 (6.19)27.63 (8.18)
18.67-24.8821.56-29.8825.22-29.3525.01-30.24
3.214.233.43-0.76
1.94-4.482.13-6.332.53-4.32-2.59-1.07

Vertical jump (cm)58.63 (8.66)56.72 (7.5)41.41 (6.71)43.2 (5.89)
55.2-62.0652.99-60.4539.17-43.6441.32-45.08
-4.66-1.88-0.45-0.03
-6.86--2.46-4.82-1.07-2.21-1.3-1.59-1.52

MSFI (composite)0.33 (0.05)0.28 (0.07)0.46 (0.09)0.42 (0.08)
0.31-0.350.24-0.310.44-0.490.4-0.45

It did not calculate residual changes for MSFI (MSFI is based on residual changes for each motor test–as a component).