Effect of yogic exercises on selected physical and physiological variables among college men

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic exercise on selected Physical and Physiological variables among College men. To achieve this purpose, 30 male students studying diploma courses in yoga from the Center for yoga studies, Annamalai University were randomly selected as subjects. The age of the subjects were ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects were further classified at random into two equal groups of 15subjects each. Group-I underwent yogic exercise for five days per week for eight weeks and group-II acted as control. The selected criterion variables namely muscular endurance, cardio-respiratory endurance, breath holding time and resting pulse rate were assessed before and after the training period. The collected data were statistically analysed by using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). From the results of the study it was found that there was a significant change on muscular endurance, cardio-respiratory endurance, breath holding time and resting pulse rate among the yogic exercise group when compared with the control group.