This study aimed to evaluate and compare the effects of two short-term offseason conditioning training programs on fitness performance in young basket ball players. Twenty-two young basketball players, aged 12-13 years, were selected to participate for this study. The participants were randomly assigned to a strength training group (ST, n = 10) or a combined plyometric and strength training group (CT, n = 11). The ST group performed free full court basketball play followed by strength training, whereas the CT group performed plyometric exercises followed by the similar strength training program. Young basketball players were tested before and after a six-week training period on the vertical jump, long jump, medicine ball toss, 20 m sprint, 4 x 15 m standing start running and stand and reach flexibility. The CT group showed significantly (p < 0.05) greater improvements than the ST group in the vertical jump (3.2 cm vs. 0.6 cm), long jump (10.3 cm vs. 2.2 cm), 20 m sprint (-0.2 sec vs. 0.0 sec), 4 x 15 m standing start running (-0.41 sec vs. -0.05 sec) and the medicine ball toss (40.7 cm vs. 18.2 cm) after the training. The results of this study demonstrate that a short-term plyometric and strength training program significantly increases motor performance skills in young basketball players.

Yoga has power of offering a holistic mind, body and soul therapy. Yoga is incredible in terms of stress management. Stress is an important factor in the causation of heart disease. It brings a person back to homeostasis. For people who have anxieties of many kinds, yoga helps lower their basic physiological arousal level. For the general person, yoga greatly enhances mental health: mood, sense of self, motivation, sense of inner direction and purpose, as well as physical health. And physical health is so important for mental health. . Suryanamaskar is a series of twelve physical postures. These alternating backward and forward bending postures flex and stretch the spinal column through their maximum range giving a profound stretch to the whole body. S N helps to promote sleep and calmness, improves muscles flexibility, strengthens abdominal muscle and improves the human organ capacities etc. So many researchers are found the result on this area. Example: victoria weinblatt, Kristine M. Fondran and Milind V. Bhutkar. This paper is attempt to construe knowledge about Influence of SN on the human body.

The state of health is defined as a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well being and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity. "Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open."

The purpose of the study was to compare health consciousness of male and female students of different educational streams. For the purpose of the study, 500 students selected from different streams of colleges and university teaching departments of Sirsa and Fatehabad district. Simple random sampling technique was used to collect the data. The variable selected for the purpose of this study was: health consciousness. health consciousness was assessed by the total scores in health consciousness Questionnaire constructed and standardised by William E. Snell and Georgette the Johnson (2007). The tool used in the present investigation was the health consciousness scale developed by which have total 100 questions and divided into 20 groups. This tool measures the extent and degree of consciousness of students about health degradation and its protection. For the present study, the mean value, standard deviation, and t-test was applied to analysed the data, The level of significance was set at 0.05. The findings of the study in relation to health consciousness showed there were no significant difference male and female students of different educational streams. On the basis of the findings of the study, the following conclusions are drawn: male students possessed high health consciousness in comparison to female students but it was not significant at .05 level of significance.

The objective of the present study is to compare emotional maturity of physically challenged male and female sportspersons. To conduct the study 100 physically challenged male sportspersons (Av. age 22.99 yrs) and female sportspersons (Av. age 23.50 yrs) were selected as sample. The data has been collected during National Game organised in Ajmer for physically disabled persons. Five dimensional Emotional Maturity Scale prepared by Singh and Bhargava (1990) was used to assess emotional maturity of selected subjects. Statistical analysis of data indicate that physically challenged male sportsperson showed more magnitude of emotional maturity as compared to physically challenged female sportspersons. It was concluded that gender influence emotional maturity of physically challenged sportspersons.

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of specific stretching exercise training program on selected physical fitness variables of football players. This study, forty five football players randomly were selected as a subjects. They were selected from various schools in Coimbatore district. They were divided into three equal groups of fifteen subjects (each group), namely, experimented group I is under went proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation group (PNFG) and experimented group II is under went static stretching group (STG) and experimented group III is plyometric training group (PTG). The experimental group participated in specific pre season training for period of six weeks. The data was collected before and after training for period of pre test, post test and relationship between the groups were analyzed by 't' ratio, analysis of co-variances (ANCOVA) test and scheffe post hoc test was applied. The level of significance for the study was chosen as 0.05. The experimental three groups after the eight weeks training significant improvement in speed, muscular endurance, agility.

The purpose of this study was to compare the rate of depression among the men players of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad and University of Mumbai. A group of 80 players (40 men players of each University with age group of 18-28 years) were selected from Krida Mahotsav (Ashwamedh) competition 2012-13, organized by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (Maharashtra) through random sampling technique. Data was collected from Athletics, Volleyball, Basketball, Kabaddi & KhoKho players using a standardized Mental Depression test of Prof. L. N. Dubey (1993) for evaluate the rate of depression. Data were analyzed by independent 't' test. By analyzing the proposed hypotheses at the P≤0.05 demonstrated significant difference between the both Universities. According to the results there was a significant difference between men players of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad and University of Mumbai.

The purpose of the study is to find out the effects of yogic training, aerobic training and detraining on muscular strength of college male students. For this study 45 (forty five) healthy untrained subjects were selected on random basis. The students were selected from Dr.R.K.Shanmugam College of Arts & Science, Indili, Kallakurichi T.K Villupuram (Dt) in Tamil Nadu, India. The subject's age were ranged between 18 to 21 years. The selected subjects were divided into three groups, each group consist of fifteen (15) subjects. Group I underwent yogic training, group II underwent aerobic training and group III acted as a control group. The selected Asanas and Pranayama were given to yogic training group.

The aim of the study was to examine the motor fitness parameters (Flexibility, Balance and muscular strength) of high school boys after participating in 8 weeks taichi training programme. Regular physical exercise is well known to be an effective intervention in maintaining and improving the physical and mental health. Tai Chi exercise is considered to offer great potential for health promotion and rehabilitation, particularly in the maintenance of good mental and physical condition. Thirty high school boys were randomly selected. The selected subjects were divided into two equal groups consisting of fifteen each. They carried out 8 weeks of taichi training programme. Flexibility (sit and reach test), muscular strength (modified sit ups test), and balance (stork balance stand test) were measured before and after the training period. At post test, the experimental group significantly improved the flexibility, muscular strength and balance.The findings reveal that Tai chi training programme can safely improve motor fitness parameters in high school boys.

The purpose of the present study was to compare the anthropometrical variables ofspin bowlers and Fast bowlers in cricket. The study was administered on 40 Cricket players in the age group 16-25 years of participated in the 2012 Buck Cricket Tournament was conducted by YMCA College of physical education, Chennai. The anthropometric measurement which was used in this study is standing height, arm length, leg length, thigh girth and body competition from biceps, triceps, subscapular and suprailiac crest. To find out the significance difference t-test was used. The level of significance was chosen as 0.05 levels. Result of this study reveal that there was significant difference exit between the standing height (2.635), arm length (3.739),leg length (4.024), body composition (2.285) and there is no significant difference exit between the thigh girth (1.603) of spin bowlers and medium pace bowlers in cricket as the tabulated 't' (2.021).