The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of swiss ball and theraband exercise with pranayama practices on core strength among the middle-aged women such as abdominal strength and lower back strength. To achieve this purpose of the study, forty-five middle aged women from Kakching, Manipur were selected as subjects at random. The subjects aged was ranged from 40 to 55 years. The selected subjects were divided into three groups of fifteen subjects each, such as swissball with pranayama (group I), theraband exercise with pranayama (group II) and group III acted as control. Training for the subject were five days per week of twelve weeks. Control group was not exposed to any specific training but they were participated in regular activities. The core strength was assessed by abdominal strength and lower back strength were selected as variables. The pre and post - tests data were collected on selected criterion variables prior to and immediately after the training program. The pre and post-test scores were statistically examined by the dependent ‘t’ test and analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). The level of significant was fixed at 0.05 level. It was concluded that the swiss ball training group had shown significantly improved in abdominal strength and lower back strength. However, the control group had not shown any significant improvement on abdominal strength and lower back strength.

Keywords: Core strength, Pranayama, Swissball, Theraband exercise, , abdominal strength and lower back strength.