EFFECT OF SELECTED
YOGASANA’s ON PULSE RATE


What is Yoga? Yoga means Union. In other words Union with God. It could be Union of the two or more opposite gunas or forces or powers (Sattra, Rajas and Tamasa). The Principal is first to control the mind to active the body. Asana is Sanskrit word which means pose or posture. The pose related to Physical, Mental, Emotional and Spiritual background. There are 28 meditative Asans and 56 Cultural Asanas.
Yoga is an ancient Scientific system which brings hormony in body and mind. It has been developed by sages for the spiritual advancement of an individual. It takes all the aspects of human personality.
The aim of Yoga on its physical side is to avoid disease and ensure health by establishing and maintaining Physical harmony in the human body. Though Yogic practices, Yogic therapeutics aim at restoring the internal recreations to their normality by securing the health of the endocrine systems.
Since Yogic exercises develop most of the components of physical fitness, it is expected that it will develop the Cardio-respiratory endurance also.

DISCUSSIONS :

The t-ratio for pulse rate was calculated to find out whether there is any significant change before and after the practice of selected Yogasanas.
The difference between means of pulse rate before and after the practice of selected Yogasanas was 4 and the standard error of the difference between means was 0.695. The t-ratio from this difference was 5.755.
The t-ratio was found to be significant at 0.01 level of confidence. The obtained t-value was greater than the required table value of 2.76 at 0.01 level confidence for 29 degrees of freedom.
The difference between the means of the pulse rate before and after the practice of selected Yogasanas was large enough to be attributed to the experimental variable.
Hence the null hypothesis was rejected at 0.01 level of significance and the hypothesis of the investigation was that the effect of selected Yogasanas on Pulse rate was held true.


CONCLUSIONS :
The practice of selected Yogasanas has reduced the normal pulse rate significantly.
RECOMMENDATIONS :

1) With the obtained results of the effect of selected Yogasanas, it is clear that those who have high pulse rate shall be advised to practice selected Yogasanas to reduce the Pulse rate.
2) Selected Yogasanas, as it is a simple form of exercise, may be introduced as compulsory activity under Yoga to be taught and practiced .
3) As Asanas have been prescribed to taught under compulsory Physical Education Programme.