Regulating Trait Anxiety among Men Badminton Players with Treatment of Yoga and Plyometrics

Abstract:

The purpose of the present study was to analyze the training impacts of Plyometrics and Suryanamaskar combined with yogic practices on trait anxiety among men badminton players. To achieve the purpose of this study 60 college level men badminton players from Anjalai Ammal Mahalingam college of Engineering, Thanjavur, Tamilnadu State, India were randomly selected as subjects. Their age ranged between 17 and 21 years. The selected subjects were randomly divided into 3 equal groups namely, Plyometrics training group (Group-I), Suryanamaskar combined with Yogic training group (Group-II), and Control group (Group-III). The psychological variable namely trait anxiety was chosen as variable for this study. Group-I underwent the Plyometrics practice, subject in the Group-II underwent suryanamaskar combined with yogic practices group and subjects in the Group–III did not go through any specific training. During the training period, training was given for both experimental groups for twelve weeks, six days per week for forty five minutes each in the morning session and evening session under the supervision of the investigator. The psychological factor was assessed by standardized inventory developed namely state and trait anxiety inventory developed by Spielberger and his associate (1970). The data was collected before and after the experimental treatment. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the collected data. Scheffe’s test was followed as a post hoc test to determine the level of significant difference between the paired means. All of the statistical analyses were computed at 0.05 level of significance. The result of the Scheffe’s post – hoc test proves that the mean trait anxiety of the Suryanamaskar combined with yoga group (Group – II) was significantly lower than those of the other two groups (Group–I and Group–III) which revels the fact that the above training has a better significance on state anxiety.

Author Name : A.M. Ashok Kumar & Dr. D. Prasanna Balaji

Keywords: Yoga, Suryanamaskar, Plyometrics, Trait Anxiety.