The characteristics of both groups showed no significant difference in pre-test (P < 0.05). In addition, TG, TC, WHR, BW, LDL/HDL, LDL, and TC/HDL values in the case group reduced in the post-test, while HDL and VO
2, max showed increased. These changes were not significant in the control group (
Table 2).
Based on
Table 3 (Group × pre-test), F-value was not significant at the level of 0.05 for VF, HDL, LDL, LDL/HDL, TC/HDL, and cTNI. In other words, the correlation between the control variable (pre-test) and the independent variable was established. However, it was not observed for TC, TG, vLDL, and VO
2, max. According to
Table 3 (effect pre-test), the F-score of VO
2, max (F = 26.328, P = 0.01), WHR (F = 11.867, P < 0.01), VF (F = 7.453, P < 0.05), TG (F = 15.813, P < 0.01) and vLDL (F = 5.677, P < 0.05) in the control and training groups related to the pre-test effect was significant at the significance level of 0.05. The F-value of the TC (F = 0.480) HDL (F = 0.311), LDL (F = 0.054), LDL/HDL (F = 0.805), TC/HDL (F = 0.106), and cTNI (F = 1.574) in both groups was not significant at the level of 0.05. Also, when the effect of the pre-test difference was removed, there was a significant difference in the post-test. Based on
Table 3 (between-subjects effects group), there was a significant difference between the mean scores of VO
2, max (F = 32.924, P < 0.01), VF (F = 7.087, P < 0.01), TC (F = 11.049, P < 0.01), TG (F = 6.005, P < 0.05), HDL (F = 8.846, P < 0.05), LDL (F = 5.203, P < 0.01), LDL/HDL (F = 10.551, P < 0.01), TC/HDL (F = 25.207, P < 0.01), and HR (F = 4.694, P < 0.05). In the post-test, there was a difference between the training and control groups, which was in favor of the training group. Also, the comparison between the groups in the post-test for the value of Eta
2 showed VO
2, max (0.599), VF (0.353), TC (0.394), TG (0.261), HDL (0.316), LDL (0.234), vLDL (0.109), LDL/HDL (0.478), TC/HDL (0.597), and cTNI (0.115). In particular, by removing the pre-test effect from the post-test scores, 37, 50, 26, 32, 35, 36, 71, 50, and 24 percent of the variables in the post-test were related to the effect of APA. The effect of APA on the reduction of BMI, SBP, and DBP appeared to be significant in SWs.