Effect of yogic practices with Swiss ball training on selected physical and physiological variables among sedentary female students

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices with Swiss ball training on selected physical and physiological variables among sedentary female students. To achieve the purpose of the study, fifty sedentary female students were selected randomly from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. The subjects aged from 20 to 25 years. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups namely experimental and control groups of 25 subjects each. The training period was limited to six weeks and for six days per week. The yogic practices with Swiss ball training was selected as independent variables and breath holding time, resting pulse rate, flexibility and balance were selected as dependent variable and it was measured by nose clip, cardio radial pulse, sit and reach, and stroke stand. All the subjects were tested two days before and immediately after the experimental period on the selected dependent variables. The obtained data from the experimental group and control group before and after the experimental period were statistically analyzed with dependent ‘t’-test to find out significant improvements. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level confidence for all the cases. Significant improvement was found on breath holding time, resting pulse rate, flexibility and balance of experimental group due to the effect of yogic practices with Swiss ball training when compared to the control group.