Influence of Surya Namaskar and Step Aerobic Dance Training on Cardio-Respiratory Endurance and Flexibility in it Professionals

The target of the present study was to find out the impact of Suryanamaskar  practice with step aerobic dance training on cardio-respiratory Endurance and flexibility of it professionals. To achieve the purpose of the study, thirty IT professionals women’sfrom the tidal park, Coimbatore Tamilnadu, were selected as subjects at random and their age group range between 22 to 25 years. The study was formulated as pre and post test random group design, in which thirty IT professional women’s were divided into two equal groups. The experimental group-1(n=15) underwent  suryanamaskar practice with step aerobic dance training and group -2 served as control group (n=15). In this study, only one training program were adopted as independent variables and ability of cardio-respiratory endurance and flexibility was selected as dependent variable and it was tested by Cooper 12 minutes run/ walk, performance was recorded in meters and flexibility was tested by sit and reach box ability was recorded in centimeters. The training period of this intervention 6 days in a week for twelve weeks. The collected pre and post data was critically analyzed with dependent ‘t’ test. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 levels for all the cases in order to find out the significance. The result clearly proved that the suryanamskar practice with step aerobic dance training demonstrated better improvement on cardio-respiratory Endurance and flexibility.