Anxiety plays an important role in the requisition of motor skills as well as athlete performance. Anxiety can either enhance to inhabit performance. Whether its effect is positive or negative depends on how an individual perceives the situation. The levels of anxiety either too height or too low tend to inhabit learning and performance. Aggressive behaviour helps in the level of performance by disturbing the opponents.  Though it influence the performance level of an individual its charms the opponent gets irritated behaviour of the performer. In team games aggressive behaviour collapse the combination setup of the opponents. It leads to the down fall of the level of performance, due to the aggressive behaviour of an individual; the teammates are also motivated to perform their level best. Taking into consideration of above facts, anxiety and aggression were chosen as a variable.

The increased anxiety and aggression of competitions can cause inter university players to react both physically and mentally in a manner that can negatively affect their performance abilities. They may become tense, their heart rates race, they break into a cold sweat, they worry about the outcome of the competition, they find it hard to concentrate on the task in hand. This has led coaches to take an anxiety and aggression is a complex emotional state characterized by a general by tension usually accompanied.

Jaskaran Singh Sindhu, Karanjit Singh and Charanjit Singh (2011): The purpose of the present study was to investigate and compare the anxiety and aggression level among the university level male and female athletes. A total 60 athletes (30 males and 30 females) were randomly selected from the various colleges affiliated to different universities of Punjab. Aggression was measured by using the AGG questionnaire constructed by Dr. G. L. Patil. Anxiety among the subjects was measured by using the sport competitions Anxiety test (SCAT) constructed by Rainer Martens (1990). The results revealed that the male athletes had significantly greater aggression (p<0.05) as compared to the female athletes. The female athletes were found have significantly higher anxiety level (p<0.01) when compared to male athletes. In conclusion, the male athletes were more aggressive whereas female athletes were more anxious.

Results from the study it can be concluded that effect of 12-weeks pranayama training on anxiety and aggression of Nashik zone inter university badminton players in this study, help to It was study of pranayama training: focus on breathing may help to developed efficient coaching plan for better performance consider of the psychology variables, and also it is well known that yoga training is beneficial for the which consume less time and more convenient. Lastly a suggestion is given to players that regular pranayama training program should be integrated into performance in every tournament.

Annexure 01

Table 01: Independent Sample ‘t’ Test Analysis