Effects of yogic practices on selected physical and physiological variables of college women students

The present study is to find out the effects of yogic practice on selected physical and physiological variables of college women students. 20 subjects is selected from Karunya Institute of Technology and sports Science, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu. The subjects were between 18 and 25 years. They were divided into 2 groups of 10 each. One group was acted as the experimental group and other group was acted as control group. The experimental group underwent the yogic practices for 12 weeks of 5 days in a week. Each training session was for one hour in the evening from 4: 00 PM to 5: 00 PM. To achieve the result the collected data on following criterion measures namely physical variables like flexibility and physiological variables like vital capacity were tested. The standardised tests were taken before and after the yogic practices training. Flexibility was tested using sit and reach test; vital capacity was find out digital spirometer. The paired ‘t‘Test was applied to analyse the collected data and in all cases the criteria for the statistical significance was set at 0.05 level of confidence. It is concluded that the yogic practice significantly increases the flexibility and vital capacity of College women students.