Effect of yogic practices on selected physiological variables among obese school boys

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of yogic practice on selected Physiological variables among obese school boys at thiruvallur district, Chennai-Tamilnadu. To facilitate the study, the investigator with prior permission from the school authorities measured height and weight of 120 school boys in the age group of 12 to 17 years. Further 30 subjects were selected on the basis of BMI measurements. It was decided to keep 30 kg/m² as base line for the selection of subjects. They were divided into Two equal groups, each group consisted of fifteen subjects, in which group I underwent Yoga training group (YTG), group II control group (CG)and they did not take part any special training apart from their daily activity. Body Mass Index was selected as a criterion variable of this study and it was measured by using Formula (BMI=Mass(kg)/Height(m²)) weighing machine was used to measure weight and Stadiometer was used to measure height and subject was selected by random assignment. Initial data were collected on selected dependent variables and final data were collected after 6 weeks training. The differences between the final scores in selected variables were subjected to statistical treatment using ‘t’ test were used to find out the difference among the groups.