Abstract
The purpose of this study was to find out the efficacy of suryanamaskar training on selected psychomotor variables of college men. The investigator selected 40 college men students from Sri Venkateswara University College of Arts and Science and Sri Govindarajulu College of Arts and Science, Tirupathi, Andhrapradesh. Their ages were ranged from 21 to 25 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups. Group 1 consist 20 subjects called as experimental group and group 2 consist of 20 subjects called as control group .The group I was assigned to suryanamaskar practice for a period of 12 weeks. The control group was not allowed to participate in any kind of training. The dependent psychomotor ability variables namely leg eye coordination and reaction time was selected and measured by football wall kicking test and chronometer test respectively for this study. The data was analyzed by the use of paired ‘t’ test. The obtained ‘t’ ratio was tested for significance at 0.05 level of confidence. The analysis of the data revealed that there was a significant improvement on the selected dependent variables namely leg eye coordination and reaction time by the application of suryanamaskar training programme.
Keywords: Suryanamaskar, Leg Eye Coordination, Reaction Time.