IMPACT OF ASANA AND MEDITATION PRACTICES ON FLEXIBILITY AMONG YOUNG ADULT MEN

Physical Education

The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of asana and meditation practices on flexibility among young adult men. To achieve the purpose of this study, 45 adult men are randomly selected as subjects from the Mother Teresa College of Physical Education, Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 20 to 25 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into three groups such as Group ‘A’ asana practices (n=15) and Group ‘B’ meditation practices (n=15) and Group ‘C’ acted as control group (n=15). The training session were five days per week and each session lasted for an hour for six week. Control group was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The pre and post tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior and immediately after the training program. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) for selected variable. It was concluded that the asana and meditation training group had shown significantly improved on flexibility. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on flexibility among adult men.

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