Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of six weeks of yogic practices on stiff accumulation catalog of diverse age men and women. To achieve the purpose of this study eighty middle aged people were selected, in which 40 subjects were men and remaining 40 subjects were women. They were further categorized into four sub-groups of 20 subjects each. The first one is 40-44 age groups of men and women separately and another one is 45-49 age groups of men and women separately. The selected participants were the inhabitants of Nagercoil, a small town in the State of Tamil Nadu, India, and they were in the age group of 40 to 49 years. The training regimen lasted for six weeks. Prior to and after six weeks of yogic practices the subjects body mass index was assessed by using the formula Weight in Kilogram divided by Height in Meters2. The application of dependent ‘t’ test, to eliminate the influence of pretest, the net mean gains are computed separately. The paired mean gains of groups are tested for significance by applying independent ‘t’ test. Three-way analysis of variance is used to find out the influence of each factor independently and also their combined influence on each of the selected variables. The analysis of the data revealed that six weeks of yogic practices had significant impact on body mass index of middle aged men and women.
Author Name : K. Jayachandran
Keywords: Yogic practices, Body mass index.
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