Effect of Yoga and Physical Training on Health Related Physical Fitness

It is a point of debate whether or not yoga practice and physical training have a positive

impact on health related physical fitness and physiological variables. In order to evaluate the

impact of yoga and physical training on health related physical fitness and physiological

variables, a study was conducted on Ninety (90) untrained students from Poornima

University, Jaipur during the academic year 2015 - 16 with age ranging from 18 to 21 years.

There were 90 male students divided in to three groups of 30 students each for yoga practice,

physical training and uninterrupted normal activity control group by the researcher. This was

deemed to be an efficient and effective way to conduct the research. The duration of training

period of the experimental groups was twelve weeks of regular yoga and physical training for

70 minutes every day. The objective of present study was to study the effect of yoga and

physical training on selected health related physical fitness and physiological variables and to

see whether the control group maintains on selected all variables. It was hypothesized that

there may not be a significant difference of yoga, physical training and control group on

selected variables. Data collection done through body mass index test (BMI) for the

composition of body, cardiovascular endurance beep test, muscular endurance push up test,

muscular strength standing broad jump, flexibility sit and reach test, vital capacity wet

spirometer, resting pulse rate through number of pulse beats per minute, breath holding

capacity duration of breath holding till the time, the number of times chest swollen in a

minute to record respiratory rate and Omron HEM-71210299Hg was used for the recording

of systolic as well as diastolic BP displayed with pulse. The procured data was subjected to

analysis, interpretation and tabulation to evolve a meaningful conclusion so that a comparison

can be made with reference to health related physical fitness and physiological variable

changes that were seen in participants who went through yoga and physical training program.

There was an analysis of Pre- and post- tests data related to physical and physiological

variables and the scores were recorded through paired t-test and analysis of covariance

(ANCOVA) for each variable separately, whenever 'F' ratio of the adjusted post-test

eventually turned out to be important. The application of Scheffe's test in the form of posthoc

test was applied to evaluate the paired mean differences. There was fixation of level of

significance at 0.05.