EFFECT OF KAPALABHATI PRANAYAMA ON CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE

Abstract

The purpose of study was to find out the effect of kapalabhati pranayama training on cardiovascular endurance. To achieve this purpose of study, forty (40) male students were studying in GB. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, for the year 2003-04, were selected as subjects at random for the present study. The ages of these subjects ranged between 18 to 25 years. Random group design was used for the purpose of the present study. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups. Group “A” acted as experimental group and Group “B” acted as Control group. Both groups consist of twenty subjects each. The kapalabhati pranayama training was given to Experimental group for three days i.e. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for eight weeks. The cardiovascular endurance was selected as criterion variable and it was measured by using cooper 12 minutes run/walk test. Analysis of co-variance (Ancova) was used to find out the significant differences if any between the experimental group and control group. The level of significance was set at 0.05 level. The results of the study showed that there was a significance difference. A significance improvement in cardiovascular endurance due to the kapalabhati pranayama training