期刊名称：Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health
印刷版ISSN：1224-7359
出版年度：2011
卷号：11
期号：1
页码：141-146
语种：English
出版社：Ovidius University Press
摘要：Introduction: Today yoga is being a subject of varied interest,gained world popularity.Recent research trends have shown that it can serve as an applied science in a number of fields such as education,physical education and sports,health and family welfare,psychology and medicine also one of the valuable means fort he development of human resources for the better performance and productivity however their exist controversy in accepting yoga as medicine and therapy because it generally been believed that yoga is a spiritual science having emancipation a s its goal and hence cannot be treated only as a therapy.Pupose of Study: to investigate the effect of Ujjayi Pranayam on the selected physiological variables among female students studying in Bachelor of Physical Education degree at Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education,Gwalior.Hypothesis: It was hypothesized that there will be a significant improvement in the selected physiological variables on the female students studying in Bachelor of Physical Education degree at Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education,Gwalior.Research Methods and Procedures: 30 female students studying in Bachelor of Physical Education degree at Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education,Gwalior,India were selected randomly as the subjects for the study.Random group design was used for the purpose of the present study.First the subjects were divided into two equal groups by drawing a lot.Group “A” acted as experimental group and Group “B” acted as Control group.Both groups consist of fifteen subjects each.Prior to the administration of test pre test scores for all the selected variables were collected.After eight weeks of training post test scores were collected on each of the selected variables.Experimental group perform Ujjayi pranayam daily for 30 minutes.No training was imparted to the control group.To investigate the effect of Ujjayi Pranayam on selected physiological variables Analysis of Co Variance was used at.05 level of significance.For the purpose of the analysis of data Software SPSS for Windows (11.5 Version) and Microsoft Excel was used.Results,Discussions and Conclusions: The analysis of co-variance was used to find out the effect of ujjayi pranayama on female students of B.P.E.,Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education.It was observed that there was no significance difference in Resting Respiratory Rate,Blood Pressure,Vital Capacity,Maximum Breath Holding Time,Peak Flow Rate and Cardio Vascular Endurance.There was significant difference in Resting Heart Rate and Resting Pulse Rate.It was observed from the above findings that eight week training programme of Ujjayi Pranayama was found to be effective in case of Resting Heart Rate and Resting Pulse Rate where as it was not effective in case of Resting Respiratory Rate,Blood Pressure,Vital Capacity,Maximum Breath Holding Time,Peak Flow Rate and Cardio Vascular Endurance.In case of Resting Heart Rate findings of the present study was supported by Mertan where he concluded that during Ujjayi breathing without retention of breath the cardiac output increases while heart rate decrease in comparison to deep breathing of similar time reaction for inspiration and expiration.The characteristics features of Ujjayi are expected to be responsible for this effect.
