The purpose of the study was to find out the impact of yogic practices on selected physiological variables among middle aged men. It was hypothesized that there would be significant differences on selected physiological variables due to the effect of yogic practices among middle aged men. For the present study the 30 middle aged men from Chennai district, Tamilnadu were selected at random and their age ranged from 35 to 50 years. For the present study pre test – post test random group design which consists of control group and experimental group was used. The subjects were randomly assigned to two equal groups of fifteen each and named as Group ‘A’ and Group ‘B’. Group ‘A’ underwent yogic practices and Group ‘B’ has not undergone any training. The data was collected before and after six weeks of training. The data was analyzed by applying dependent ‘t test. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The experimental group showed better improvement on systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure among middle aged men than the control group.

KEYWORDS: Yogic practices, Systolic blood pressure, Diastolic blood pressure, Middle aged men.