Results
The average ½ max muscle grip fatigue time for men (n =3 ) without and with competition was 16.788 ± 1.21and 34.982 ± 1.74 respectively.
The average muscle grip fatigue time for women (n = 3) without and with competition respectively was 19.415 seconds with a standard deviation of 12.9 and 36.223 seconds with a standard deviation of 22.52.
- This data shows that muscle grip fatigue time did increase by almost 2x the subjects’ initial trials while subjects were competing against one another as opposed to their fatigue time without competition.
Figure 1
Fig. 1. This graph shows the average 1/2 max  fatigue time of men and women without competition versus with competition. Average fatigue time for both men and women nearly doubled when against competition as opposed to without competition. Standard deviation was used for the error bars in this graph.
A Paired t-Test was used to determine whether there was a significant difference between the values of fatigue time without competition and fatigue time with competition for men and women collectively. This means that the average fatigue time without competition (18.1015 ± 8.31) was significantly shorter than the average fatigue time with competition (35.602 ± 14.3, p = 0.00097, Table 1).
Figure 2
Table 1
Fig. 2. This paired t-test helps us find the difference between the two variables we are interested in (in this case fatigue time without competition and fatigue time with competition). Because the p two-tail test is less than 0.05, this means that the fatigue time without competition is significantly less than the fatigue time with competition.
