The effect of power yoga training programme on fat percentage of obese male

Abstract

Purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks of power yoga intervention on fat percentage in obese male. Cross-sectional study design study was piloted with using purposive sampling technique involving n = 24 obese male subjects’ age range between 18 to 28 years between control (n = 12) and experimental groups (n = 12) subjects. Bio-electrical impedance test was conducted to obtain the pre and post data of fat percentage which was recorded in percentage rounded off 0.01 percent. Further, experimental group subjects were practiced 8 weeks power yoga training programme for 3 days in a week and control group were not practiced any yoga training. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the status of obese male subjects on fat percentage with the help of groups. For analysing difference between the groups the analysis of co-variance and post-hoc test (LSD) were applied and level of significance was set at the 0.05 level.Results of the study concludes that power yoga training intervention improves body composition variable i.e. fat percentage in obese male.