INFLUENCE OF PRANAYAMA PRACTICES ON BREATH HOLDING TIME AMONG HOCKEY PLAYERS

Physical Education

The purpose of the study was find out the influence of pranayama practice on breath holding among hockey playerss. To achieve the purpose of this study, 20 male college students are randomly selected as subjects from the M.D.T Hindu college, Tirnelveli, and Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 18 to 22. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as Group A ‘pranayama practices training (n=10) and Group ‘B’ acted as control group (n=10). Group ‘A’ underwent yoga pranayama practices for 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 breath holding was assessed by Nostril clip method were selected as variables. 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 pranayama practices training group had shown significantly improved in breath holding time. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on any of the selected variable such as breath holding.

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