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The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of SAQ training combined with asana practice on selected physical fitness variables of basketball players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, forty-five basketball players from PSG College of Arts & Science, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu, India were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects were divided into three equal groups of fifteen subjects each. Group I acted as Experimental Group I (SAQ training), Group II acted as Experimental Group II (SAQ training combined with asana practice) and Group III acted as Control Group. The requirement of the experiment procedures, testing as well as exercise schedule was explained to the subjects so as to get full co-operation of the effort required on their part and prior to the administration of the study. It was observed that the twelve weeks of SAQ training with asana practice have significantly improved the selected physical fitness variables than the SAQ training and control group.