Effect of Yogasana and Minor Games on Upper Body Explosive Strength

The objective of the study was to find out the effect of Yogasana and Minor Games on Upper body Explosive Strength of school going boys. Ninety 5th to 12th standard school going hostel boys of Ever Green Public School in Sabarakantha District, Gujarat were randomly selected. The pre test – post test randomized group design, which consists of two experimental groups (n=30 in eachand one control group was used for the study. Equal numbers of subjects were assigned randomly to each groups. Two groups (Yogasana group and Minor games) were served as experimental group on which treatment was assigned and one group was served as control. To find out the comparative effect of Yogasana and Minor Games on Upper body Explosive Strength of school going boys, descriptive Statistics and Analysis of Co-Variance (ANCOVA) were used. Statistical significance was accepted at the 5% level. On the basic of results it is concluded that Yogasana may be effective on Upper body Explosive Strength.