AN IMPACT OF ISOLATED AND COMBINED YOGIC TRAINING, PRANAYAMA PRACTICES ON CARDIO RESPIRATORY ENDURANCE OF INTER–COLLEGIATE WOMEN PLAYERS

Dr. A. Rube Jesintha

Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2017

AN IMPACT OF ISOLATED AND COMBINED YOGIC TRAINING, PRANAYAMA PRACTICES ON CARDIO RESPIRATORY ENDURANCE OF INTER–COLLEGIATE WOMEN PLAYERS

Dr. A. Rube Jesintha

Abstract :

Purpose: The present study was designed to find out the effect of isolated and combined yogic training, pranayama practices on Cardio Respiratory Endurance performance of inter–collegiate men Hockey players. Subjects: For this purpose sixty (N=60) women players who were studying various Colleges affiliated to Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Sivagangai District, Tamilnadu during the year 2014–2015 were selected randomly as subjects. The subjects were assigned at random into four groups of fifteen each (n=15) namely, Yogic training, Pranayama Practices, Combined Yogic Training and Pranayama Practices and Control group. Group–I underwent Yogic Training, Group–II underwent Pranayama Practices, Group–III underwent Combined Yogic Training and Pranayama Practices and Group–IV acted as Control. Training: The duration of the training period for all the three Experimental groups was restricted to twelve weeks and the number of sessions per week was confined to three in a week. For Combined Yogic Training and Continuous Running, the training period was restricted to alternative weeks for twelve weeks. Variables: The dependent variable selected for this study was Cardio Respiratory Endurance. Test: Cardio Respiratory Endurance was assessed by Coopers 12 Minutes Run/walk test. All the subjects were tested prior to and immediately after the training for all the selected variables. Statistics: Data were collected and statistically analyzed using ANCOVA. Scheffe’s post hoc test was applied to determine the significant difference between the paired means. In all the cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed. Results: The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference among all the Experimental groups namely Yogic training, Pranayama Practices and Combined Yogic training and Pranayama Practices groups. Further the results of the study showed that combined yogic training and Continuous Running group was found to be better than the Yogic training group and Continuous Running group in Cardio Respiratory Endurance