Early man’s ability to survive depended primarily on physical fitness. It is known that a number of indices of physical fitness are influenced by yogasana and gymnastics. Aim of the study is to find out, effects of these short term exercises on Auditory reaction time, visual reaction time and cutaneous reaction time in healthy young volunteers.  The protocol of the study involved measurement of ART, VRT and CRT in both hands separately; before and after one month of yoga and gymnastics training in two groups. Each consisting of 25 healthy male volunteers, in the age group of 18- 23 years. Response – analyzer [YSRT – 0101] instrument was used for the measurements of ART, VRT and CRT. The results of study showed that, the random and alert RTs, were decreased after both yoga and gymnastics training (p<0.001). Right hand RTs were significantly shorter than the left hand RTs before and after yoga as well as gymnastics training (random and alert, p<0.001). There was a greater reduction in random RTs after gymnastics training whereas, a greater reduction in alert RTs was found after yoga training but the p value was not significant. To conclude, yogasana and gymnastics training, both have showed the improvement in the RTs.

Keywords: ART; CRT; VRT; Gymnastics; Yogasana.