The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of selected yogic exercises on vital capacity and body fat. To facilitate the study, thirty subjects from selvam higher secondary school, Namakkal were selected as subjects at random and their ages between 14 to 17 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups. In this study, yogic exercise was given to experimental group for the period of 6 weeks. The pre-tests were taken from the subjects before administrating the training. The

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... ubjects were involved with their respective training for a period of 6 weeks. At the end of the sixth weeks of the training posttest were taken. The significant differences between the means of experimental group and control group for the pre-test and post-test scores were determined by paired t ratio. The level of significance was fixed at 0.05 level of confidence for the degree of freedom 14. Vital capacity and body fat of experimental group showed significant difference when compared to control group. There was no significant difference in vital capacity and body fat of control group.