2.1. Participants
PATHOLOGY
Eligible participants were aged from 18 to 55 years, amateur males, from mixed cycling modalities, with experience in the practice of cycling greater than three years, not having received specific treatment in the musculature evaluated during the last four weeks, or subject to some treatment in the present, as well as not having pathology diagnosed in the lumbar region. Participants were ineligible if they had undertaken strenuous exercise in the previous 48 h, had taken analgesics before the data collection, did not complete the bike ride due to loss in the course, or had a mechanical breakdown that made continuity not possible. Participants were blinded to the research hypothesis. In addition, the research analyst established the randomization and had no direct contact with the participants.