Comparative effect of physical activity and yoga on agility and aggression of school students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was intended to assess the effect of physical exercises and yogic on Agility and Aggression of school students. For this purpose 120 male students were randomly selected out of 536 male students from the Machatora Union High School, Bankura, West Bengal, age of the subjects were ranging between 14 to 16 years. They were divided into three equal groups, each group consist of forty subjects, in which group-1 underwent physical exercises, group-2 underwent yoga practices and group–3 acted as a control group who were not allowed to participate and receive any special treatment apart from their regular curriculum activity. The training period for this study was six days a week for eight weeks, the before and after the training period, the subjects were tested for Agility and Aggression. The analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was applied to find out which group has better in performance, whenever “F” ratio for adjusted test was found to be significant for the adjusted post-test means Scheffe’s test was followed, as post hoc to determine which of the paired means differ significantly. It was drawn conclusions that after the training of physical exercise and yoga both training has improved Agility and Aggression, a significant increase found in Agility and Aggression both the physical exercise group and yoga group but not significant in case of control group. In case of criterion variables aggression, yoga group improved significantly than their counterpart physical activity group.