Impact of yoga asana on selected physiological variables

Abstract

Now a days, our modern society realise about the significance of yoga in their daily life. That’s why the present investigation was taken as an initiative to find out the effect of yoga asana on selected physiological variables among high school boys. The study was conducted on 60 high school boys of Banipur Baniniketan high school, divided into two groups equally, namely control and experimental group. Their age ranged from 12 to 14 years. The experimental group treated by a six weeks training programme based on yoga asana whereas the control group did not undergo any type of training. Respiratory rate, heart rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and breathe hold time were selected as physiological variables and were measured using the standardized tests before and after given the treatment. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was employed to analysis the data statistically. In results, significant effects were observed on respiratory rate, heart rate, systolic blood pressure and breathe hold time whereas in case of diastolic blood pressure, insignificant result was found.