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The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of circuit training on HDL and LDL among football players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, thirty women football players from Tiruchirappalli district, Tamilnadu were selected as subjects at random and their ages ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects were divided into two equal groups at random. The subjects were divided into two equal groups of fifteen players each. Group I acted as Experimental Group (Asana practices) and Group II 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. Pre test was conducted for all the subjects on total cholesterol and triglycerides. This initial test scores formed as pre test scores of the subjects. The groups were assigned as Experimental Group and Control Group in an equivalent manner. Experimental Group was exposed to asana practices and Control Group was not exposed to any experimental training other than their regular daily activities. The duration of experimental period was twelve weeks. After the experimental treatment, all the thirty subjects were tested on selected variables. This final test scores formed as post test scores of the subjects. The pre test and post test scores were subjected to Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) to find out the significance among the mean differences. In all cases 0.05 level of significance was fixed to test hypotheses. It was observed that the twelve weeks of circuit training have significant effect on HDL and LDL than the control group.