Proponent of Health Fitness Through Yoga

Due to the increasing age all body function becomes weaker in old age. The older people have weak muscular strength balance co-ordination ability kinesthetic perceptual motor skill flexibility and other psychological and physiological components. This in turn indicates that the senior citizens have much more limitations toward physical fitness. Various literature evident that ‘yoga is an acceptable strategy to improve health related fitness motor skills and coordination abilities in younger population. It is therefore assumed that some selected practice of yoga may help the older adults to resolve problems of healthrelated fitness kinesthetic perceptual motor skills and coordination abilities. Therefore an attempt has been made to examine the effect of ten weeks’ yoga training can help senior citizens to improve kinesthetic perceptual motor skill co-ordination abilities and health related fitness.