EFFECT OF YOGIC PRACTICES ON CORE STRENGTH AMONG VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS

Physical Education

The purpose of the study was to found out the effect of yogic practices on core strength among volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of this study, 20 male inter collegiate volleyball players were randomly selected as subjects from The M.D.T Hindu College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu, India. Their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. The selected participants were randomly divided into two groups such as group ‘A’ yogic practices (n=10) and group ‘B’ acted as control group (n=10). Group ‘A’ underwent yogic practices for three 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 “plank test” (in seconds) was used to measure core strength were selected as variables. The pre and post tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior to 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 significance was fixed at .05 level of confidence, which was considered as appropriate. It was concluded that the yogic practices group had shown significantly improved in core strength. However the control group had not shown any significant improvement on core strength.

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