Effect of Selected Yogic Practices on Endurance Among Women Netball Players

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices on endurance among women netball players. To achieve this purpose of the study, thirty women players were selected as subjects who were attended the National Games coaching camp held at Mar Baselios College of Engineering and Technology, Trivandrum. The selected subjects were aged between 18 to 25 years. They were divided into two equal groups of fifteen each, Group I underwent yogic exercise programme and Group II acted as control that did not participate in any special training apart from their regular curricular activities. The subjects were tested on selected criterion variable such as endurance prior to any immediately after the training period. The selected criterion variables such as endurance was measuring by 8 min run and walk test. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to find out the significant differences if any, between the experimental group and control group on selected criterion variable. In all the cases, 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance, which was considered as an appropriate. The result of the present study has revealed that there was a significant difference among the experimental and control group on and endurance.