Effects of varied packages of Yogic Practices on selected Motor Ability Components Physiological Hematological and Bio Chemical variables among college men students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of varied packages of yogic practices on selected motor ability components, physiological, hematological and bio chemical variables among college men students. To achieve this purpose of the study, sixty college men students studying in Sir Theagaraya College, Chennai, SRM College of Arts and Science, Chennai and Patrician College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India were randomly selected as subjects. The age of the subjects were ranged between 18 to 24 years. The selected subjects were divided in to three equal groups of twenty subjects each. Group I underwent first packages of yogic practices and Group II underwent second packages of yogic practices for five days per week for twelve weeks. Group III acted as control that did not participate in any special training programme apart from their regular activities as per their curriculum. The following motor ability components, physiological, hematological and biochemical variables namely flexibility, cardio respiratory endurance, resting pulse rate, breath holding time, hemoglobin, red blood corpuscles, total cholesterol and blood sugar were selected as dependent variables. All the subjects of three groups were tested on selected dependent variables at prior to and immediately after the training programme. The analysis of covariance was used to analyze the significant difference, if any among the groups. Since, three groups were compared, whenever the obtained F ratio for adjusted post test was found to be significant, the Scheffe s test to find out the paired mean differences, if any. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the F ratio obtained by the analysis of covariance, which was considered as an appropriate. newline