Volume : 9, Issue : 2, FEB 2023

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

YOGIC TRAINING AND ITS INFLUENCE ON CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH INDICATORS IN OBESE ADULTS

BHAGWAN SINGH RAJPUT

Abstract

present study examines how yoga training affects important physiological parameters in obese participants. Participants in the study included 200 obese people who underwent evaluations for heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, double product, and pulse pressure before and after yoga training. ANOVA and other statistical analyses were used to assess how pre- and post-training measures differed. The results show a significant decrease in diastolic blood pressure (72.41 ± 0.29 to 67.11 ± 0.23, p<0.05) and heart rate (80.15 ± 0.30 to 75.42 ± 0.29, p<0.05). In contrast, there were no significant changes in systolic blood pressure or double product, but there were mixed results for systolic blood pressure (114.4 ± 0.54 to 115.79 ± 0.45, p>0.05), double product (86.39 ± 0.49 to 87.13 ± 0.47, p>0.05), and pulse pressure (39.99 ± 0.35 to 42.68 ± 0.29, p<0.05). These results imply that yoga training may help improve cardiovascular health by successfully lowering heart rate and diastolic blood pressure in obese people. To investigate the long-term impacts and underlying mechanisms of yoga practices on cardiovascular parameters in obese populations, more research is necessary.

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