AUTHOR(S): Biswabandhu Nayek and Dr. Kallol Chatterjee

ABSTRACT:
Life will not be life without physical activities. Through physical activities alone people were able to survive in this world. The story of evolution throws some light on the nature and types of activities which are an essential part of modern physical activities which are to be fit for day-to-day existence and to meet the occasional emergencies that arise. Yoga may be an important tool for every individual to maintaining health and improving quality of life. Aerobic exercise can be viewed as an intricate system of bodily supply and demand. That is the body needs energy for any kind of activity and the need is filled by burning off the foods that eat. The purpose of the study was to Effect of 6-Weeks Yoga and Aerobic Exercise on Muscular Strength and Flexibility in Pre- Adolescence Students. For the purpose of the study Sixty (20 in Yoga group, 20 in Aerobic exercise group, 20 in control group) Pre- Adolescence boys student from Burdwan Sri Ramakrishna saradapith uchcha vidyalaya, Burdwan West Bengal were selected as the subjects for this study. The age of the subjects was between 12-14 Years. In order to investigative the existence of significant difference among Yoga group, Aerobic group and Control group on Muscular Strength and Flexibility of pre- adolescence Boys in pre-test, Post-test and Adjusted post test result, the analysis of Co- variance was used at 0.05 level of Significant. In case of existence of significant differences, the post hoc test (L.S.D test) was used in order to investigate the significant difference between paired group means. The result showed that there was significance difference on Muscular Strength among Yoga group, Aerobic group and Control group. The result also showed that there was significance difference on Flexibility among Yoga group, Aerobic group and Control group.

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