Comparison of Different Paces of Suryanamaskar on Flexibility of School Students

The objectives of the study were to determine the main effect of training durations (withingroups), the main effect of groups (betweengroups) and interaction effect (combined effect of training durations and groups) on flexibility due to practices of Suryanamaskar. Mixed design was used for study. Three intact groups were formed and 14 subjects were in each group in the range of 15 – 17 years. First group performed one round of Suryanamaskar in 1 minute, second group in 2 minutes and third group in 4 minutes. Total treatment duration was 12 weeks. Flexibility was measured by Sit and Reach test at pre-test, after 6 weeks and after 12 weeks of all three groups. 3 x 3 mixed factorial ANOVA was used and level of significance was set at 0.05. The findings of the study revealed that practice of Suryanamaskar for 6 weeks and 12 weeks were sufficient to bring out significant improvement on flexibility (main effect of training duration). There was no interaction effect found among groups. There was no significant difference found among groups (main effect of groups).