The purpose of the study was to find out the influences of yogic practices and step aerobics on range of movement among men volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, sixty volleyball players were selected as subjects at random from Pondicherry, India and their ages ranged from 18 to 23 years. They were divided into four equal groups of fifteen each (n=15) at random. Group-I performed yogic practices, group-II performed step aerobics training, group-III assigned combined yogic practices and step aerobics and group-IV was act as control.          The initial testing took place before the beginning of the training while the final testing was performed after 12 weeks of intervention with the yogic practices and step aerobic training methods on range of movement. To find out the pre and post test mean differences paired ‘t’ test was applied. Further, percentage of improvement was also calculated. The data collected from the four groups prior to and post experimentation on range of movement was statistically analyzed to find out the significant difference if any, by applying the analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Whenever an obtained ‘F’ ratio value was found to be significant for adjusted post test means, the Scheffe’s test was applied as post hoc test. In all the cases the level of confidence was fixed at 0.05 level for significance. In response to yogic practices (30.30%), step aerobics (15.91%) and combined training (18.58%) the men volleyball player’s range of movement was improved greatly.

Key Words: Yogic practices, Step aerobics, Range of movement, Volleyball players