Yoga-Based Intervention And Its Effects On Body Composition In Post-Menopausal Women
Abstract
The current study, named "Yoga-Based Intervention and Its Effects on Body Composition in Post-Menopausal Women," looked at the effects of certain yoga therapies on Body Mass Index (BMI) and Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) in post-menopausal women aged 45 to 60 years. Sixty residential women from Punjabi University, Patiala, were purposefully selected and randomly assigned to control (n = 30) and experimental (n = 30) groups. The experimental group received a six-month yoga intervention that included Pranayama, Asanas, ShudhiKriyas, and Meditation, delivered five days a week. A pre-test post-test control group design was adopted, and data were analysed using paired t-tests with a significance level at 0.05. The experimental group's BMI and BMR did not alter statistically significantly after the intervention, according to the data. These results imply that although yoga could have holistic health advantages, the particular protocol used in this study was insufficient to result in quantifiable changes in BMI, BMR variables of Body Composition over the study period.
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