INFLUENCE OF YOGIC PRACTICES ON ANAEROBIC POWER AMONG HOCKEY PLAYERS
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- 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University Chennai, Tamilnadu
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The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of yogic practices on anaerobic power among hockey players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, thirty hockey players from Tamilnadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups at random. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of fifteen players each. Group I acted as Experimental Group (yogic practices) and Group II acted as Control Group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to statistical analysis using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. The experimental group had achieved significant improvement on anaerobic power than the control group.
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