Effect of skills training with and without yogic practices on flexibility among youth male handball players

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of skills training with and without yogic practices onflexibility among youth male handball players. Forty five youth male handball players were selected from Kanchipuram District, and their age ranged between 16 to 19 years. Thesubjects were divided into three groups consists of 15, each namely two experimental groups and one control group. The experimental group-I underwent a skills trainingprogramme and experimental group-II underwent skills training with yogic practices for twelve weeks training programme The control group was not taking any part of training during the course of the study. Flexibilitywas assessed by sit& reach test and unit of measurement in centimeters. Pre-test was taken before the training period and post-test was measured immediately after the twelve weeks of training period. Statistical technique was used for Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) and the level of significance was set at 0.05. Scheffe's test was used as a post hoc test to determine which of the paired mean differ significantly. The results revealed that there was a significant difference found on flexibility.