Effect of Aerobic Exercise and Yogic Practices on Muscular Strength and Anxiety

Author(s) Name:

J. Suresh & Dr. Bupesh S. Moorthy

Abstract:

The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of aerobic exercise and yogic practices on shoulder muscular strength and anxiety. Forty five male students aged between 17 and 21 years were selected for the study. They were divided into three equal groups, each group consisting of fifteen subjects in which two experimental groups and one control group, in which the group I (n=15) underwent aerobic exercise, group II (n = 15) underwent yogic practices for three days (alternative days) per week for twelve weeks, and group III (n=15) acted as control, which did not participate in any training. The subjects tested on selected criterion variables such as shoulder muscular strength and anxiety at prior to and immediately after the training period. For testing the shoulder muscular strength, push-up test was used and to measure the anxiety, Taylor’s Manifest Anxiety Scale was used. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant difference if any, between the experimental groups and control group on selected criterion variables separately.  Since there were three groups involved in the present study, the Scheffé S test was used as post-hoc test. The selected criterion variables such as shoulder muscular strength were improved and anxiety was significantly decreased for the training groups when compared with the control group. Moreover, there were no significant difference was occurred between the training groups on selected criterion variables.               

Keywords:

Aerobic exercise, yogic practices, shoulder muscular strength and anxiety.

Please cite this article as:

J. Suresh & Dr. Bupesh S. Moorthy (2020). Effect of Aerobic Exercise and Yogic Practices on Muscular Strength and Anxiety. International Journal of Recent Research and Applied Studies, 7, 12(2), 9-12.