Effect of varied packages of yogic practices on selected motor ability

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of varied packages of yogic practices on selected motor ability, physiological, hematological and bio-chemical variables among college men students. To facilitate the study, 90 subjects were selected at random from Rajapalayam Raju s college, Rajapalayam. Their age was ranged between 18-25 years. They were assigned into three groups Group 1 served as Swami Satyananda Saraswati Yogic Practices group (EX GP1), Group 2 served as Swami Vishnudevananda Yogic Practices group (EX GP 2) and third one as control group. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the 12 weeks treatment in progression motor ability such as flexibility, muscular strength and cardio vascular endurance and physiological variables such as resting pulse rate, vital capacity, and VO2 Max and hematological variables such as RBC Count, WBC count and platelets count and bio-chemical variables such as blood sugar, high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL). The initial and final scores in selected motor ability, physiological, hematological and bio-chemical variables were put in-to statistical treatment using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significant mean differences. Scheffe s post hoc test was used to find out the paired mean differences. In all the cases the 0.05 level of confidence was fixed. newline