Acute Exercise as an Intervention to Trigger Motor Performance and EEG Beta Activity in Older Adults

Table 1

Participant characteristics for EG and CG.

	EG; (, 9 female)		CG; (, 11 female)		F-statistics
	M	SD	M	SD	F(1, 36)	p
Age	68.17	3.18	70.48	2.75	3.39	.074	.09
Education	16.38	2.17	15.76	1.99	0.84	.365	.02
Subj. health	4.12	0.60	4.10	0.63	0.01	.912	<.01
MMSE	28.88	0.86	28.52	0.98	1.40	.244	.04
Subj. hand usage	19.18	4.93	18.57	4.73	0.15	.698	<.01
Pegboard	12.35	1.13	12.19	1.72	0.11	.740	<.01
MVC	55.53	16.14	58.28	16.12	0.77	.387	.02
Physical activity	39.44	18.40	39.03	15.41	0.01	.940	<.01
Maximum Watt	142.82	42.68	143.00	35.73	< 0.01	.989	<.01
VO2-peak	1.95	0.59	1.85	0.53	0.25	.619	.01

Notes. EG = experimental group; CG = control group; age = age in years; education = years of education; subj. health = self-rated health status in a Likert scale from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent); MMSE = sum score of the Mini-Mental State Examination; subj. hand usage = self-reported hand use (sum score of 9 items, 5-point scale); Pegboard = mean score of three trials with the right hand; MVC = maximum voluntary contraction of index finger and thumb, maximal value out of three trials; physical activity = kcal/kgwk; maximum Watt = maximum Watt performed during cardiovascular fitness test; VO₂-peak = VO₂-peak performed during cardiovascular fitness test in l/min.