Effect of Varied Packages of Yogic Practices on Selected Motor Ability and Physiological Variables among College Level Hockey Players

Abstract :

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of varied packages of yogic practices on selected motor ability
and physiological variables among college level hockey players. To facilitate the study, 90 subjects were selected at random from S.I.V.E.T College Gowrivakkam TamilNadu. Their age was ranged between 18-25 years. They were assigned into three groups Group 1 served as Swami Satyananda Saraswati Yogic Practices group (EX GP1), Group 2 served as Swami Vishnudevananda Yogic Practices group (EX GP 2) and third one as control group. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the six weeks treatment in progression motor ability such as muscular strength and cardio vascular endurance and physiological variables such as vital capacity and VO2 Max. The initial and final scores in selected motor ability, physiological, variables were put in-to statistical treatment using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significant mean differences. Scheffe s post hoc test was used to find out the paired mean differences. In all the cases the 0.05 level of confidence was fixed.

Author Name : Dr.V.Vallimurugan & S. Sivasankar

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1009213

Keywords: Yoga; motor ability, physiological and hockey players.