Effect of yogic practices on selected locomotor skills of school children

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the effect of yogic practices on selected locomotor skills of school children. For this purpose, sixty (N=60) children were selected from Chennai District, Tamil Nadu, India. The Subject's age ranged between 12 to 14 years. The selected subjects were divided into two groups of thirty subjects, experimental and control groups. This study uses the following locomotor skills Run, Gallop, hop, leap, horizontal jump, skip, and slide. The selected dependent variables were assessed by using the Test of Gross Motor Development PRO-ED. The collected data on the selected variables were treated with a dependent “t” test at a 0.05 level of significance. The results of the study indicate that there was a significant improvement in locomotor skills due to the effect of 12 weeks of Yogic practice.