Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of selected yogic practices on selected physical variables among state level cricket players. To achieve this purpose a sample of 40 state level cricket players were selected at random from Chennai from the age group of 19 – 22 years. They were divided into two equal groups. Experimental group is yogic practices group, and the other acted as control group the pre test was conducted to all the two groups in sit and reach test for Flexibility. The Yogic practices was given to the experimental group and for the period of 8 weeks for five days per week. The training load was fixed based on pilot study, but the control group was not given any type of training. After 8 weeks of training the post test was taken from all the subjects. The pre and post test was conducted for flexibility at the end of each session and data was recorded. Analysis of covariance was used to test of significance. The results of the study reveals that the efficiency of the flexibility improved significantly (p>0.05).
Author Name : K. Gopinath & Dr. A.M.Moorthy
Keywords: Astanga Yoga Practices, Flexibility.
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