Effect of Asanas on Selected Physical and Physiological Variables among Young Adult Women
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https://doi.org/10.51983/arss-2018.7.2.1422Keywords:
Flexibility, Strength Endurance, Resting Pulse Rate, Breath Holding TimeAbstract
Today the awareness of maintaining good health has been on the high and people attend to physical exercise sessions even without knowing the actual physiological and spiritual values of yogic practices. To achieve this purpose, twenty four female students who are studying in Bharathidasan University affiliated college, Tiruchirappalli were selected as subjects at random and their age ranged between from 20-25 years Physical and physiological variable will be selected by reviewing and studying related literature in detail following criterion variables are selected for this. Physical variable flexibility and strength endurance physiological variable resting pulse rate breath holding time the pre and posttest control group design will be used for this study. To find out the significant difference on adjusted posttest among the groups, analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA) would use. There was significant improvement on flexibility, strength endurance physiological variable resting pulse rate breath holding time due to the effect of asanas training among young adult women.
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