Impact of yogic Asanas on total cholesterol of women volleyball players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the Impact of Yogic asanas on Total cholesterol of women volleyball players. To achieve this purpose of the study, forty female student studying various department from Annamalai University, Chidambaram. (n=40) were randomly selected as subjects and their age ranged between 18 to 22 years. The selected subjects were randomly assigned into two equal groups such as experimental group (EG) and control group (CG) with twenty subjects each (n=20). The experimental groups underwent their respective group for eight weeks three days per week a session on each day. Control group was not engaged to any specific training apart from their curriculum. Total cholesterol was taken as variable for this investigation. The pre and post test were conducted one day before and after the training programmes. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyze the collected data. The results revealed that the experimental group (EG) produced significant improvement (p ≤ 0.05) due to Yogic asanas training on Total cholesterol when compared to control group (CG).