Impact of Yogic Exercises on Strength Development of College Boys

Abstract

The Purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic exercises on strength development of college boys. For the present study 60 male students of Saraswati Degree College, Hathras (UP), were selected randomly as the subjects for the study. The age of the subjects ranged between 17–22 years. The variables selected for the present study were yogic training (independent variable), strength (dependent variable). For the study pre testpost test randomized group design, which consists of control group (30 subjects) and experimental group (30 subjects) were used. The data were collected through the pre test, before training and post test, after eight weeks of yogic exercises training. For comparing pre and post test means of experimental and control groups, descriptive analysis and Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) were used and the level of significance was set at 0.05 level of confidence. The result of the study showed that there was significant difference between pre and post test (experimental group) of strength