Background: Maintaining a healthy body weight and level of body fatness is key to a healthier and longer life. Overweight and underweight individuals with body fat levels falling at or near the extreme of the body continuum are likely to have serious health problems that reduce life expectancy and threaten the quality of life. The purpose of the present study was to compare the body fat percentage of various socio-economic categories of vegetarian and non-vegetarian Sportsman.....

Present study deals with the comparison of mental depression among the Kho-Kho men Players of Maharashtra State Universities & Gujrat State Universities. A group of 120 players, 60 men players of each State Universities with age group of 18-28 years were selected from West Zone Inter University Kho-Kho Competition 2013-14 conducted by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University Aurangabad, Maharashtra State, India through random sampling technique. Data was collected from only Kho-Kho men players using a standardized mental depression test of Prof. L. N. Dubey (1993). Here 't' test was used to check the significance of mental depression of the Players. The result of the study reveals that the 't' value of mental depression is -1.78 which was a insignificant difference between these Universities at 0.05 level of the depression.

The present study was undertaken to compare the emotional competencies, mental health and self-perception among male & female athletes. For this study, total 98 athletes of different colleges of Himachal Pradesh University were taken to act as subjects. Out of these 98 athletes, 59 male sprinters & 39 female sprinters were selected to act as subjects. Only those athletes were selected, who participated in Inter college competitions. In order to measure emotional competencies of subjects, scale of emotional competencies developed and standardized by Dr.H.C.Sharma & Dr.R.L.Bharadwaj (2007), Mental health battery developed and standardized by Singh and Gupta (2008) and scale measuring self-perception developed and standardized by K.G.Agarwal (1991) were adopted. Mean, standard deviation &'t' test were used as statistical techniques. The findings of the study revealed that male & female sprinters differ significantly in various emotional competencies like adequate depth of feeling, adequate expression and control of emotions, ability to function with emotions, ability to cope with problem emotions, enhancement of positive emotions and also differ significantly in sub-variables of mental health like emotional stability & autonomy.

Sport is area where gender inequality is strongly evident. The problem is more sociopsychological than anything else. Today, as we stand at the start of a new millennium it is deplorable that men and women are treated so differently, especially in sport. Women make up 50% of the world.s population but they are not given equal opportunities. Men are still considered the better sex than the women. After 1947, we trying to develop a modern nation, with special rights to half of its citizens namely women. Indian women are still trying to establish their own identity. Women in India are still unable to take a stand for themselves.

The purpose of this study is to assess the General Self-Efficacy of sportsmen of Himachal Pradesh University in team and individual sports events. The sample for the present study were included all male sports persons, who represented Himachal Pradesh University in inter-University level tournaments in various team and individual sports events. In the team sports events Football, Volleyball, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Hockey, Handball, Basketball and cricket are included. In the individual sports events Table Tennis, Weight-Lifting, Boxing,Cross-Country,Athletics,Badminton Judo and Wrestling are included for the present study. 216 sportsmen represented Himachal Pradesh University in team sports events and 96 sportsmen represented in individual sports events for two sessions. General Self-Efficacy scale was administered to all the sample sportsmen for data collection. Significance differences in general self-efficacy of two groups of sportsmen were determined through 't' test. In order to make the two group of sportsmen equal in number 100 sportsmen were selected randomly from the respective groups. As per the result obtained on the variable of General Self-Efficacy ,there is no significant difference recorded of the sportsmen of team and individual sports event.

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behaviour, feelings and physical well-being. Depressed people may feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, or restless. The sample consists of 60 teachers belonging to the age group of 30-40 years working in the Govt. G.V Raja Sports VHSS Mylom, and Govt HSS Anavoor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The 60 subjects were classified randomly into two groups namely group-A and group-B; group-A, the experimental group which underwent the yoga programme and group-B, the control group. The Beck Depression Inventory was used for data collection. The programme was implemented on the experimental group after every school session for a period of eight weeks excluding the period utilized for initial and final tests one hour for five days per week. The results of this study provide the mean of control group as 4.90 and of experimental group 3.83and the F value as 187.47 which support the hypotheses. This study is a conformation prior research and shows that yoga programme is an effective method for reducing depression.

Man is social animals and the primary distinction from other animal is his ability to learn. He has been endowed with intelligence which enables him to modify his animal tendencies in accordance with the demands of the environment and the education which enhances his intelligence and capabilities so as to ensure proper progress in life. Education is a process which enables a man to acquire knowledge through conducive attitude, which is essential for being a human being. Objectives are the particular and precise means employed to realize an aim. Objectives are steps, advances, and realities in relation to the aim. They are considered worthwhile as they measure up to the standard of the aim. The objectives are something desirable, which seem possible of being attained, and through which the final goal is brought nearer to realization. The American physical education association listed five objectives. a. Physical fitness b. Mental health c. Social-moral character d. Emotional expression and control e. Appreciation's Physical Education, sports & physical fitness are interrelated terms. One of the significant aims of every physical education & sports programmed is to develop physical fitness meant merely muscular strength. This concept of fitness has also undergone a change, now a new concept of “Total fitness means that state which characteristic the degree to which the person is able to function”.

Background: Maintaining a healthy body weight and level of body fatness is key to a healthier and longer life. Overweight and underweight individuals with body fat levels falling at or near the extreme of the body continuum are likely to have serious health problems that reduce life expectancy and threaten the quality of life. The purpose of the present study was to compare the body fat percentage of various socio-economic categories of vegetarian and non-vegetarian Sportsman.....

The purpose of this study was to compare the Eysenck's personality traits of sportsman who participated in individual and team sports of inter-University level. For the purpose of the study, two groups namely Hockey, Kho-Kho, cricket (team sports) and Track & field, table Tennis and Gymnastics (individual sports) who have participated in universities in inter-university competition of above mentioned games. Dimension of Eysenck's Maudsley personality inventary as standardized by Jalota and Kapoor were selected to collect the data

Man is social animals and the primary distinction from other animal is his ability to learn. He has been endowed with intelligence which enables him to modify his animal tendencies in accordance with the demands of the environment and the education which enhances his intelligence and capabilities so as to ensure proper progress in life. Education is a process which enables a man to acquire knowledge through conducive attitude, which is essential for being a human being. Objectives are the particular and precise means employed to realize an aim. Objectives are steps, advances, and realities in relation to the aim. They are considered worthwhile as they measure up to the standard of the aim. The objectives are something desirable, which seem possible of being attained, and through which the final goal is brought nearer to realization. The American physical education association listed five objectives. a. Physical fitness b. Mental health c. Social-moral character d. Emotional expression and control e. Appreciation's Physical Education, sports & physical fitness are interrelated terms. One of the significant aims of every physical education & sports programmed is to develop physical fitness meant merely muscular strength. This concept of fitness has also undergone a change, now a new concept of “Total fitness means that state which characteristic the degree to which the person is able to function”.

One of the main concerns of modern Indian health and fitness experts is the concern regarding the physical health of women. Since the half of the nation's population is constituted by women, this concern has to be addressed properly. It is on the health of women that the future of the next generation lies. A woman has many roles to play: taking care of Children, looking after the family, maintaining the domestic life and any other work that wants her attention. In this busy and hectic schedule, she cannot go out for gym, fitness club or even a moderate evening walk. This prone a modern woman to many ailments in India. The present paper tries to solve this problem by proposing a home based simple technique that uses the combination of aerobics and yoga.

Is Obesity a growing concern in India? Obesity and overweight have in the last decade become a global problem - according to the World Health Organization (WHO) back in 2005 approximately 1.6 billion adults over the of age 15+ were overweight, at least 400 million adults were obese and at least 20 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight.

If you do aerobics, which has no direct breathing or mindfulness component, the physical challenge can trigger a full-o direct breathing or mindfulness component, the physical challenge can trigger a full-fledged stress response in the body. But when physical demands are met with mindfulness and steady breathing, as they are in yoga, the nervous system responds differently: It maintains activation while keeping an underlying sense of calm. It remains skillfully engaged but without going into ful-fledged fight-or-flight mode. The great sage and codifier of yoga, Patanjali, must have been aware of the power of asana when he wrote sutra 2:46, Sthira sukham asanam: Postures should embody steadiness and ease. If you can find both elements in the midst of a stressful arm balance, you're not just training your mind. You're enabling your autonomic nervous system to imprint that response and therefore allow you to return to it during everyday stress. At first, you will need to very consciously tap into this response during your yoga practice by focusing on your breathing and thoughts. But with enough conscious practice, the rehearsed challenge response can become an ingrained automatic response—on and off the mat. Yoga also trains the nervous system to return to balance quickly after a challenge response. By alternating strenuous poses with gentler ones, yoga conditions you to move easily between states of challenge and rest.

The purpose of the study was to assess and compare Anxiety between Sports Persons and Non-Sports Persons. For the purpose of the study, total 300 subjects will be selected in two groups i.e. 150 in sports persons (Individual Games-50, Combative Games-50, Team Games-50) and 150 Non-sports Persons i.e. were selected randomly on the basis of stratified random sampling. The subjects were selected from Banaras Hindu University and Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith respectively.

The purpose of this study to compare the strength, endurance among jumpers & throwers. For this study 60 athlete's, 30 jumpers & 30 throwers; equally divided into two groups under 17&19 years. The study was conducted from Punjab State; att the sample selected from random basis; the selected subjects at least participated at State Level Tournament. To find out the shoulder Strength; chin ups & for endurance; 600 yard run test was adopted. Results indicated that throwers have more shoulder strength than jumpers while jumpers have more endurance than throwers.

The purpose of the study was to “compare the degree of sports competition anxiety between North Zone and South Zone kho-kho players of All India Inter University.” The study was conducted on 48 North Zone and 48 South Zone kho-kho players, were ranging from 18 to 25 years. The data for the present study were collected during the All India Inter University competition held at Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar (Punjab), from 25-01-2013 to 31-01-2013. In this study Sports Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT Martens et al., 1990) was used to measure sports competition anxiety. Questionnaire was distributed among the North Zone and South Zone kho-kho players 1 hour before the competition. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference the North Zone and South Zone kho-kho players on the degree of sports competition anxiety. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and t- test were used to analysis the data. From the finding, it revealed that there was significant difference in sports competition anxiety between North Zone and South Zone Kho-Kho Players of All- India Inter University level.