Effect of yogic and pranayama exercises on endurance of school level students

Abstract

The present study has been designed to investigate the effects of yogic exercise on agility of school level students. For accomplish the study total 20 students of Rohtak district were randomly selected as sample. The study will be delimited to 8th to 12th class boys only. The study will be delimited to Yoga asana (Tadasana, Trikonasana, Padmasana, Vajrasana, Bhujangasana, Shalabasana, Dhanurasana, Halasana, Chakrasana, Matsayasana) and pranayama exercises (Bhastrika, Kapalbhati, Anulom Vilom, Shitali, Bhramari, Udgeeth). Every training session will be 50 minutes. The training program will be scheduled in the morning between 6.00am to 7.00am. Three yoga expert will be assist the researcher during training session one for yoga asana and pranayamas. Subjects will underwent a 10 minutes warming up and 10 minutes cooling down exercises which includes jogging, stretching, push-ups etc. The experimental period will be delimited to 12 weeks. The training will be delimited to five day in week. The study will be delimited to physical fitness components endurance only. To accomplish the study SPSS version 20 was used to apply all statistical terms and t test was applied to compare the results. The level of significance was set at 0.05. A significant difference was observed between students pre and post score of endurance. That is why hypothesis that “There will be a significant improvement as a result of yoga asana on endurance ability of students” which was formulated earlier was accepted. A positive improvement was finding out on endurance capacity of students.