INFLUENCE OF SURYA NAMASKAR PRACTICES ON BACK STRENGTH AMONG MALE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Physical Education

The purpose of the study was find out the Influence of Surya namaskar practices on back strength among male college students. To achieve the purpose of this study, 20 male inter collegiate male college studentss were randomly selected as subjects from the Mother Teresa College of Physical Education, Pudukkottai, Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 18 to 26 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as group ‘A’ Surya namaskar practices (n=10) and group ‘B’ acted as control group (n=10). Group ‘A’ underwent Surya namaskar 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 “isometric back strength” (in seconds) was used to measure back strength 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 dependent‘t’ test and Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). The level of significant was fixed at 0.05 level. It was concluded that the Surya namaskar practices group had shown significantly improved in back strength. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on back strength.

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