Abstract:
The present study is to analyze the effect of power yoga practice on selected physiological parameters among middle aged men. For this study 100 middle age male persons were selected from Coimbatore city, after the scrutiny by the scholar and experts 40 middle aged men were selected as subjects by adopting purposive random sampling technique. The age of the subjects ranged from 35 to 42 years. They were divided into two equal groups namely, power yoga group and control group. The subjects were tested to find out the resting pulse rate, vital capacity and blood pressure. The pulse rate was assessed by arterial pulse, vital capacity was measured by digital Spiro meter and blood pressure was measured by sphygmomanometer. The power yoga group participated in power yoga practice for a period of twelve weeks and control group did not participate in any special practice. The data were collected before and after the training period and the pretest, posttest and the adjusted posttest were analyzed by Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The level of significance for the study was chosen as 0.05. It is concluded from the results that the power yoga practice group has significant improvement in resting pulse rate, vital capacity and blood pressure among middle aged men.
Author Name : T. S. Mohan Raj, Dr. A. Pushparajan
Keywords: Power yoga, resting pulse rate, vital capacity, blood pressure.
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