EFFECT OF YOGIC PRACTICES ON FLEXIBILITY AMONG RURAL SCHOOL BOYS

Keywords

Flexibility, Rural, Yoga

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices on flexibility among rural school boys. For this study totally 30 school boys as subjects from Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu were randomly selected and their age ranged between 14-17 years. The selected subject were divided into two groups within 15 subjects in each group namely one experimental group-I (n=15) underwent yogic practices and another group-II (n = 15) acted as control group for a period of six weeks. The groups were drawn at random from the some population 30 subjects of the two groups were tested on selected criterion variables flexibility. Prior and after the training period to find out the variance in each criterion variable due to the application of independent variable analysis of covariance was applied (the process through which the pretest mean difference between the groups can be adjusted to posttest mean). The obtained ‘F’ ratio was tested for significant at 0.05level of confidence. The finding of the study revealed that there was a beneficial effect on flexibility for experimental group when compared to the control. The training was more effective for yogic practices group