A Comparative Study on Breath Holding Capacity of Taekwondo Players

Abstract

The aim of the study was find out the effect of yogic practices on breath holding capacity of Taekwondo players the study was conducted on 180 male and female players of Madhya Pradesh who head played the state and national level competition. Subjects were divided into two groups one experiment group with hundred players and another was control group with eighty players. The experimental group where included girls and boys and equal ratio in which 25 senior girls & 25 junior girls, 25 senior boys & 25 Junior boys and in control group 20 senior girls & 20 junior girls, 20 senior boys and 20 junior boys ware included. Data collection was done before and after the intervention. The yogic intervention was implemented for one month every day one hour. Results shows that the Taekwondo players who participated in the selected yogic practices exhibited significantly greater breath holding capacity than those in the control group.