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The purpose of the study was to comparison of selected physical fitness qualities between yoga practiced and non- yoga practiced women. To achieve this purpose of the study only sixty women students were selected from the Meerut Girls Public School were selected. Among them thirty yoga practiced and thirty non- yoga practiced women were selected as subjects respectively. The following variables namely strength endurance and flexibility were selected as criterion variables. The data were collected from university yoga practiced and non- yoga practiced women on strength endurance and flexibility by using bend knee sit ups and sit reach test and respectively. The independent ‘t’ ratio was used to analyze the significant difference if any between groups. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the independent ‘t’ ratio obtained which considered as an appropriate. The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between yoga practiced and non- yoga practiced women on selected criterion variables namely strength endurance and flexibility.

The purpose of the study was to comparison of selected physical fitness qualities between yoga practiced and non- yoga practiced women.

Meenakshi Yadav, Saroj Malik (2015) :The Purpose of their study was to evaluate the effect of one month yoga practice on selected physical parameters which includes cardiovascular endurance, explosive strength, flexibility, and hemoglobin. Twenty subjects were selected as subjects for the study. Yogic asana training was administered for one month. The results revealed significant effect on flexibility, explosive strength and cardiovascular endurance of yogic practice.The results of the study showed that yogic practice have significant effect on flexibility, strength and cardiovascular endurance whereas the variables reaction time and hemoglobin showed no significant difference between pre and post training results. With the help of yogic practice elastic component of muscles can be stretched and consequently develop tension due to its elastic resistance to stretch. This effect is the mechanism in the muscles contribution to contractile force. They conclude that the yogic practice improves the mental and physical health of the individual. The practice of yoga increases the flexibility. The muscular strength of individual also improves after the three months of yogic practice. With the practice of yoga one can notice significant improvement in Explosive strength of legs.
Zahoor Ul Gani, Dr. P. Karthikeyan (2017): Examined the effect of different intensity aerobic exercise on selected biomotor performance of university football players. There was a significant improvement on selected biomotor variable such as speed for moderate aerobic intensity training group and high aerobic intensity training group as compared to control group. There was a significant improvement on grip strength for experimental groups as compared to control group. There was a significant difference between Moderate intensity aerobic training programme group, High intensity aerobic training programme and control group on speed and strength of football. They found that the study revealed that there was a significant improvement on selected biomotor variables such as speed and strength for moderate aerobic intensity training group and high aerobic intensity training group as compared to control group among university men football players.
Boskey Panchal and Beroz Tawadia (2019) examined the compare the effects of yoga and aerobics on pulmonary function and physical fitness. They found that the results of this study indicated that both groups showed a similar trend in improvement post intervention, however there were no significant differences in the parameters measured between the yoga group and the aerobics group. It is concluded that either or both forms of exercise may be done by young, asymptomatic females to improve pulmonary and physical fitness.

To achieve the purpose of the study only sixty women students were selected from the Meerut Girls Public School were selected. Among them thirty yoga practiced and thirty non- yoga practiced women were selected as subjects respectively. The following variables namely strength endurance and flexibility were selected as criterion variables. The data were collected from university yoga practiced and non- yoga practiced women on strength endurance and flexibility by using bend knee sit ups and sit reach test and respectively. The independent ‘t’ ratio was used to analyze the significant difference if any between groups. The .05 level of confidence was fixed as the level of significance to test the independent‘t’ ratio obtained which considered as an appropriate.

The mean, standard deviation and “t” ratio values on strength endurance of yoga practiced and non - yoga practiced women have been analyzed and presented in table I.
Table I
The Mean, Standard Deviation and "t" Ratio Values Between Yoga Practiced and Non -Yoga Practiced Women on Strength Endurance 

Groups	Mean	Standard Deviation	‘t’ ratio value
Yoga Practiced women	34.11	1.88	3.88*
Non – Yoga Practiced women	30.16	1.97

* Significant at .05 level of confidence.
(The table value required for significance at .05 level of confidence with d.f. 58 was 2.002).

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Table Ii
The Mean, Standard Deviation and "t" Ratio Values Between Yoga Practiced and Non -Yoga Practiced Women On Flexibility

Groups	Mean	Standard Deviation	‘t’ ratio value
Yoga Practiced women	20.82	0.84	2.89*
Non – Yoga Practiced women	18.66	0.99

* Significant at .05 level of confidence.
(The table value required for significance at .05 level of confidence with df 58 was 2.002).
 

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The table II show that the mean values on flexibility for yoga practiced and non – yoga practiced were 20.82 and 18.66 respectively. The obtained ‘t’ ratio value on flexibility 2.89 which was greater than the table value 2.002 required for significance with df 58. Yoga Practiced women, 20.82 Non – Yoga Practiced women, 18.66 MEAN Standard Deviation Yoga Practiced women 0.84 Non – Yoga Practiced women 0.99 0.84 0.99 0.75 0.8 0.85 0.9 0.95 1 1.05 Standard Deviations The results of the study showed that there was a significant difference between yoga practiced and non – yoga practiced women on flexibility.

Based on the results of the study, the following conditions were drawn. 1. There was a significant difference between yoga practiced and non – yoga practiced women on strength endurance. 2. There was a significant difference between yoga practiced and non – yoga practiced women on flexibility.

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