The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of yogic and physical training on respiration rate and lung capacity of young adults. Another purpose of the study was to find out the comparatively better training programs among Yogic and Physical training for young adults. 75 male students of the department of physical education, Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut were randomly selected for the study. The subjects were divided into three groups i.e. one control and two experimental groups for the study. The age of the subjects was ranged between 17 to 21 years. Criterion measures for this study were different test items for respiration rate and lung capacity such as: To measure respiration rate about the young adults, Manual method was used. To measure lung capacity about the young adults, Spiro Meter was used. To find out the effect of yogic and physical training on respiration rate and lung capacity of young adults, the t-test was used. For the testing of hypotheses, the level of significance was set at 0.05. The result reveals that there was significant (p<.05) effect of yogic and physical training on respiration rate and lung capacity of young adults. Based on findings and within the limitation of the study it was noticed that effect of yogic and physical training helped to improve speed and cardiovascular endurance of young adults. Since respiration rate and lung capacity of the subject of experiment group was found to be statistically significant since the obtained values was found to be higher than the tabulated value.

Keywords : Respiration Rate, Lung Capacity, Yogic Training, Physical Training.