Effects of different circuit training with yogic practices on muscular strength endurance

The purpose of the study was to find out the “effects of different circuit training with yogic practices on muscular strength endurance”. To achieve this purpose of the study, sixty girls’ students from Government higher secondary school, Keeranur, TamilNadu, India were selected at random as subjects. Their age was between fifteen to seventeen years. The study was formulated as pre and post test random group design, in which sixty students were divided into four equal groups. The experimental group-1 (n = 15 ESBC-YP) underwent explosive strength based circuit with yogic practices, the experimental group-2(n=15 SEBC-YP) underwent strength endurance based circuit with yogic practices, the experimental group-3 (n = 15 CES& SEBC-YP) underwent combined explosive strength and strength endurance based circuit with yogic practices and the group-4 served as control group (n = 15 CG) did not undergo any specific training. In the study, three different training approaches were adopted as independent variables, i.e., explosive strength based circuit with yogic practices, strength endurance based circuit with yogic practices, combined strength and endurance based circuit with yogic practices. The muscular strength endurance were selected as dependent variables. The muscular strength endurance was measured by using modified sit-ups test. The selected training group was given as per the training schedule of three days per week of ten weeks. The pre and post-test random group design was used as experimental design in which sixty students were selected as subjects; the selected subjects were divided into four groups of fifteen subjects each. Ancova was used to find out significant adjusted post test mean difference of four groups with respect to each parameters and Scheffe's post hoc test was used to find out pair-wise comparisons between groups with respect to selected parameter. The results revealed that there was a significant difference among the selected training groups and control group. Further there was significant improvement on selected criterion variables owing to the three different circuit training with yogic practices among the school girl's students.