Effect of four weeks yogic practice on selected anthropometric and psychological variables among sedentary college women

Abstract

Yogic practices have become increasingly popular at present, as a method of coping with health problems, stress and as a means of exercise and fitness training. The purpose of the present study was to find out the effect of yogic practice on selected physiological health parameters on sedentary college women. For this purpose, a total of 15 college women students in (mean age 25.4 years) were agreed to take part as subject. Body weight, three skin fold body fat and psychological stress were considered as criterion in this study. All parameters were measured by the standard tools and procedures. Four weeks training was provided to the subjects and selection of yoga and training schedule was fixed by the consultation with the experts on Yoga. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data and 0.05 level of significance was considered. Results revealed that no significant difference on selected parameters between pre-test and post-test value (P>0.05). It was concluded that the four weeks yogic practice did not have significant effects on body weight, skin fold fats and psychological stress among sedentary college women students.