Abstract :
The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices with and without green tea supplementation
on selected health related physical fitness variables among obese men. To achieve the purpose of the present study, thirty obese men from Chennai, Tamilnadu, India was selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 30 to 40 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of fifteen each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (Yogic practices with green tea supplementation Training) and Group II acted as Experimental Group II (Yogic practices without green tea supplementation Training). The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. The duration of experimental period was 12 weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the thirty subjects were tested on their selected health related physical fitness variables. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using dependent ‘t’ test. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. The yogic practices with green tea supplementation group and yogic practices without green tea supplementation group produced significant changes in health related physical fitness variables. The ‘t’ values of the selected variables have reached the significant level.
Author Name : R.Manoj Kumar & Dr.K.Jothi
Keywords: Yogic Practices, Green Tea, Obese Men.
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