A study on effectiveness of physical exercise and certain yogic practices on motor learning

Abstract

Sport scientists strive to optimize sports performance to achieve the goal, they must consider motor learning. The motor learning is a prerequisite of learning sports techniques for their continuous refinement and modification during the long term planning as well as short term process. The motor learning mainly has two types one is sports type another is stunt type. In this study we have taken only sports type of motor learning. Here motor learning refers to Ease with which an individual learns new motor skill . The purpose of this study was to investigate the response of certain asanas and exercises programme on selected motor-learning tests. For this study 400 male students of Brilliant Public School Aligarh were selected randomly. The age of the subjects was 12 to 14 years. The purpose of study was clearly explained to the subjects. The subjects were randomly assigned in to four groups. The experimental group A was asanas group, B exercises group, C combined group of exercises and yogic asanas and D control group. Each group consisted of 100 subjects. The experiment was conducted for a period of twelve weeks in 5 days per week. The experimental group A did 10 yogic asanas program included shirshasansa, sarvangasana, matsyasana, halasana, bhujangasana, salabhasana, dhanurasana, arth-matsyendrasana, pashchimottanasana, chakrasana. The experimental group B did exercise program consists of spinal rock, back over, side stretches, alternative prove lift, one leg jumping, line walking after front roll, 5-meters dash, raising the hands with folded hands, walking on hands with partners, stride stretches. The experimental group C did exercise and asanas programme combined. The experimental groups practice 5 days in week at 7.30 a.m. to 8.30 a.m. in Brilliant Public School Aligarh. The whole training programme for the experimental groups A , B and C was carefully and systematically planned. The experimental groups A , B and C underwent the training programme on asanas, exercises