A comparative study of body mass index between P.G. diploma in yoga science, B.P.ED and M.P.ED students

Abstract

The present study has been designed to investigate the body mass index of the different courses students in Department of Physical Education. For accomplish the study total 60 samples of different courses of Department of Physical Education were randomly selected as sample. All samples were selected from the Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak. The age of the subjects was ranged from 18-28 years. One-way analysis of variance method was applied for analyzing the data obtained from the present study if there were significant difference than the LSD post-hoc test was use to analyze the mean differences and their significance. For testing the hypothesis the level of significance was set at 0.05. We find out significant difference in body mass index of PGDYC, B.P.ED and M.P.ED students. Body mass index of PGDYC students is low in comparison of two other disciplines. We can say that PGDYC students are having low fat comparison to B.P.ED and M.P.ED students.