Volume : 9, Issue : 2, FEB 2023

2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON YOGA FOR GLOBAL WELL-BEING (Shree Hanuman Vyayam Prasarak Mandal, Amravati (M.S.) INDIA)

COLLEGE STUDENTS' ANTHROPOMETRIC EVALUATION AS A RESULT OF YOGA ACTIVITY.

PROF. ASHISH V. HATEKAR

Abstract

Since the Vedic era, yoga has gained widespread recognition for its role in the maintenance of normal health. It has been demonstrated that medical students have early risk factors for chronic diseases as a result of their lack of exercise and stress from their coursework. The goal of the study was to evaluate how yoga exercise affected college students' anthropometric evaluation. For this study, 60 male college students from Amravati, whose ages ranged from 17 to 19, volunteered. For ten weeks, they received yogic activity instruction and were free to practise every day for 45 minutes. Before and after the study, measurements of the subjects' weight, BMI, chest expansion, respiration rate were taken, a considerable loss in body weight, a rise in cheat expansion and respiratory rate found to be significant. There was no discernible difference in either the BMI. In addition to their demanding coursework, all students are instructed in and encouraged to practise yoga every day in order to enhance their lung health and behavioural patterns.

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