Effect of hatha yoga practices on selected physicaland physiological parameters among the working women

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of hatha yoga practices on selected physical and physiological parameters among the working women. To achieve the purpose of the study, fifty working women were selected randomly from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. The subjects aged from 30 to 45 years. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups, namely hatha yoga training group (Group A), and control group (Group B) each group consist of 25 subjects. The training period was limited to twelve weeks and for three days per week. The hatha yoga practices was selected as independent variables and flexibility of hip joint, flexibility of shoulder joint, breath holding capacity, pulse rate, were selected as dependent variable and it was measured by hip flexibility test, shoulder flexibility test, Nose clip, and Cardio Radial Pulse. 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 (Group A) and control group (Group B) before and after the experimental period were statistically analyzed with ‘t’ ratio to find out significant improvement for each variable separately in order to determine the differences, if any, among the adjusted post-test means. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level confidences for all the cases. The results of study shows that there was the significant effect on flexibility of hip joint, flexibility of shoulder joint, breath holding capacity, pulse rate of experimental group due to the effect of followed by hath yoga practices training when compared to the control group.