Effect of Aerobic Training Combined with Asana Practices on Cardio Respiratory Endurance of Handball Players

The purpose of the study to evaluate the “Effect of aerobic training Combind with asana practices on cardio respiratory endurance of Hand ball players”. To achieve the purpose of the study, forty five school boys in the age group of 14 to 17 were selected as subject at random, from Govt. Higher Secondary School, Paramakkudi, Tamilnadu. The study was formulated as pre and post test random group design, in which forty five school boys were divided into three equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n=15) underwent aerobic training. The experimental group-2 (n=15) underwent aerobic training combined with asana practice, Group 3 served as control group (n=15) did not undergo any specific training. The cardio respiratory endurance was chosen as a criterion variable and it was tested by cooper 12 min/run or walk test the performance was recorded in meters .The selected subjects were performed 6 week training in a week 3 alternative days .The pre and post test data were analysed with one way analysis of covariance. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level.