The effect of power yoga training programme on cardio-respiratory endurance of obese male

Abstract

In the light of obesity epidemic, the main objective of this study was to determine the impact of 8 weeks of power yoga intervention on cardio-respiratory endurance i.e. VO2max in obese male. For this purpose, cross sectional study design study was conducted which includes n = 24 obese male subjects’ age range between 18 to 28 years between control (n = 12) and experimental groups (n = 12) subjects by using the purposive sampling technique. Further, rockport one mile treadmill walk test was used to assess the cardio-respiratory endurance (i.e., relative maximum oxygen consumption) and the test score was measured in mL.kg-1.min-1 rounded off 0.01 mL.kg-1.min-1 by using VO2max mL.kg-1.min-1 formula. The subjects belonging to experimental group were exposed 8 weeks power yoga training programme for 3 days in a week and control group were not expose to any yoga training intervention. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the status of obese male subjects on cardio-respiratory endurance i.e. VO2max variables 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.Findings of the study concludes that power yoga training intervention improves health related physical fitness variable i.e. cardio-respiratory endurance (Vo2max) in obese male.