Impact of Selected Yogic Exercises on Anxiety of Inter-Collegiate Female Volleyball Players

The purpose of the present study was to find out the difference between pre- competitive anxiety and post-competitive anxiety in intercollegiate level female volleyball players. Total Thirty (N=30) intercollegiate level female players were randomly selected from Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo. Age limit of the subjects was from 18 to 25 years. To access the anxiety of female volleyball players, anxiety scale developed by Dr. Subhash and Mr. Gautam Das was used. This inventory is highly reliable and valuable to access the anxiety level of selected volleyball players. The data was collected before and after 4 weeks training of selected yogic exercises (Hala Asana, Bhujanga Asana, and Tada Asana, Nauk asana, Shava asana and Surya Namaskar) and breathing exercises (Kapala bhati, Bhastrika, Om Velom, Bharamari). The result of the study indicates that there is no significant difference between pre competitive and post competitive anxiety of volleyball players. For the statistical purpose t-test was used and level of significance was set at 0.05 levels.