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Introduction:- Yoga has been a spiritual discipline which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body. It is an art and science of healthy living and weight training is organized exercise in which muscles of the body are made to contract in response to external weights, body exercise or resistance. The purpose Purpose: - of the study was the effect of twelve (12) weeks weight training and Yoga on selected motor ?tness variables of college going volleyball players within the age group of 18-25 years. Total thirty (30) subjects were taken for the study Materials & Methods:- from baliapal college of physical education, baliapal, balasore, odisha. The motor ?tness variables were strength, agility, ?exibility, speed and Cardiovascular endurance which were measured by standing broad jump, Shuttle run test, sit and reach test, 50-meter dash test and 1 mile run and walk test respectively. The Pre-test and Post-test were taken of all the parameters before and after the twelve (12) weeks of yoga and weight training programme. The subjects were randomly selected for the study. The ?ndings of the present study reveals that there was signi?cant difference found in the motor Results & Discussion:- ?tness variables after the twelve (12) weeks of yoga and weight training programme. The pre-test mean scores of all motor ?tness variables were 6.02, 5.50, 5.80, 12.18 and 4.55 respectively. Similarly, the post-test mean scores of all the motor ?tness variables were 8.82, 4.20, 8.50, 9.16 and 3.05 respectively. Therefore, it was clear from the results that the volleyball players were better improve their ?tness after the given period of twelve (12) weeks yoga and weight training programmes. The Independent paired't'- test was used at 0.05 level of signi?cance. On the basis of the obtained result, it has been observed that Conclusion:- yoga and weight training programme can improve the motor ?tness variables of college going volleyball players and play an important role in healthy impact on the life style of a man