Author(s): A Kasirajan and Dr. S Mariappan

Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out Effects of yogic practices on physical variable among school level handball players. To achieve the purpose of this study 30 school boys inter school players of Govt. Boys Hr. Sec. School, Udumalpet, were selected as subject. The selected subjects were divided into two groups namely yogic practice group and control group, Group A underwent yogic practice for eight weeks of six days per weeks. The duration of training session was between one hour to one and half hour approximately, which included warm-up and warm-down. Group B acted as control group, who were not engaged in any special activities other than their daily routine. The following yoga were given during training period as Suryanamaskar, Makarasana, Pavana Muktasana (Alternate leg), Paschimottanasana, Ardha Matsyendrasana, Bhujangasana, Ardha Shalabhasana, Shalabhasana, Dhanurasana, Eka Padasana, Uttanapadasana, Naukasana, Jathara Parivarthanasana, Halasana and Shavasana. The Selected as criterion variable namely Flexibility, Explosive Power and Cardio Respiratory Endurance were measured by Sit and reach box, Standing broad jump and 12 minutes cooper test. The data were collected from each subject before and after the training period and statistically analyzed by dependent‘t’ test which is used to find out the significant improvement on selected criterion variables and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference between the experimental and control groups on each variables separately. All the cases 0.05 level of confidence was fixed as a level of confidence to test the hypotheses.

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