How To: Soothe calf strains with massage
Calf strains are a common athletic injury. A few massage techniques can help soothe most calf strain injuries. Get expert tips and advice on massage and other treatments in this video.
Calf strains are a common athletic injury. A few massage techniques can help soothe most calf strain injuries. Get expert tips and advice on massage and other treatments in this video.
Making your own baby food is easier than it sounds—and it’ll save you money, too. You will need fresh fruits and vegetables, lean beef, lamb, poultry, or pork, a vegetable brush, a vegetable peeler or paring knife, a chef's knife, a cutting board and a food mill, processor or a blender. Watch this video tutorial and learn how to make baby food.
Rear deltoid raises are an important part of strength training and weight lifting. This fitness HowTo video tutorial shows you the proper way to do rear deltoid raises with dumbbells. Begin in a seated position, place feet together, lean forward and raise the weights up to shoulder height. Keep watching to learn more about proper form for doing read deltoid raises.
Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to perform the backflip on a scooter. The tutorial suggests that you follow the curve in the jump and lean your body back to make sure it's perpendicular to the base of the jump. Be careful when performing these scooter tricks.
The Scissors is an original pilates exercise that strengthens the abdominal muscles and increases hamstring flexibility. If your hamstrings are tight initially, decrease the range of motion so that you can keep your knee straight, otherwise your hamstring flexibility won't increase as quickly. The Scissors will deliver flatter abs and lean sculpted legs. Watch this fitness how to video and you will be strengthening your body with pilates in no time.
Watch this tutorial to learn how to make a card rise out of the deck. Impress your friends with this cool and easy to lean magic trick.
Here is one way to get the hands free when someone is grabbing around your waist as you go for the gangsta lean position. This is a very helpful and effective martial arts technique.
Long and lean, or full and curvy, there's a party dress out there for you. Follow these fashion tips to find the right dress for your body type.
Lean how to play "Can't Help But Wait" by Trey Songz' on the piano.
Lean how to play "Truly Madly Deeply" by Savage Garden original song and covered by Cascada on the guitar.
Sammi explains how to stop when you are ice skating. There are two different ways to break the speed. You can put your feet in a T or you can put your legs together and lean forward.
This video shows unrivaled faith in Chef Paul by unplugging his bread machine and allowing the master teacher to reveal the best way to make bread. Chef Paul rewards such resolve by crafting Lean Italian Bread, Braided Rich-Egg Bread and Sausage and Cheese Bread. Tom’s only complaint? The lack of preservatives will force him to make bread again real soon. "Cooking Key" Focus: Yeast «
Lean the best and quickest way to get the most juice out of your lemon. This video shows you two different tricks for maximizing the "juice output" of a lemon when you cut it. One you may know, the other we think will be a surprise!
The best cure for a cold day or a hungry family is this hearty and delicious wintry beef stew made in a crockpot. You will need lean beef stew meat, carrots, potatoes, apples, onion, apple cider, salt and thyme.
Following the most recent election, some argue that increasing political polarization is dividing Americans. A new app, called Read Across the Aisle, is aiming to combat this by encouraging users to read news from media outlets on both sides of the political spectrum.
If you're not an everyday woodworker, then building a deck may be a challenge for you. But it's not as hard as it might seem. If you follow all of the required steps for deck building, you'll have one of the best ones on the block, and be pretty darn proud of it, too!
Learn how to do a standing barbell curl drop set while leaning against a wall. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.
The importance of paint cannot be underestimated when it comes to correctly constructing a reborn baby doll. There are many tutorials showing you how to correctly replicate the hair on your baby doll's head, but what about the eyebrows? This tutorial shows you how to use a variety of paints and fine tip brushes to correctly achieve realistic eyebrows as well as head hair for your next reborn project.
Here is a clear, step-by-step guide for building and setting a an Asian bird trap from Laos. This simple and effective trap requires some seeds, a small piece of bamboo, 4ft of cordage, and a young sapling. This trap can catch everything from small birds up to a jungle chicken.
All North American birds are edible and therefore a good source of meat if you're trying to survive in the wild. This detailed video shows how to construct and bait an Asian bird trap snare. You'll need some 150lb test bankline, some twigs, an available young sapling and something to bait your trap, such as wild berries.
You can construct a 3-D photo gallery of rotating photographs quite easily in Adobe After Effects. The trick is to use parenting and anchor points to pull it off, and this tutorial shows you how to avoid using the cylinder effect.
This tutorial shows you how you can cheaply and easily construct a rolling camera dolly for less than you'd have to spend to buy it from the manufacturer - this one only costs about $120. It rolls as smoothly as a professional dolly!
You can construct your own burning red laser very easily and very cheaply. All you need are a soldering iron, Phillips head screwdriver, an LPC-815 laser diode, and a RKCSTR driver. Once you have everything together, follow this video to build a burning red laser.
Hermit crabs are a cool pet to own and are generally pretty low key. But taking care of them is a chore in itself and requires some very specific needs! In this video you will get some basic care tips including constructing his environment, foods and more!
Spinach and pie aren't two words you'd usually see in the same sentence, but they sure are when you're referencing Greek cuisine. Spanakopita, or Greek spinach pie, is almost a dessert in the way it's constructed, with thin sheets of pastray wrapped around spinach and other ingredients.
Bento is a delicious way to bring a nutritious and artistic lunch on the go. Put together a traditional Japanese lunch box (bentobox) using fun foods. Construct cute foods, like rice bunnies and flower garnishes from cucumbers and tomatoes.
Even LEGO people get thirsty, and what better to quench the thirst than a nice cool can of soda pop? And what's the perfect way to get that cola to your LEGO men quickly? A LEGO soda machine! And believe it or not, this soda dispenser actually dispenses miniature soda cans! Watch and learn how to build this working LEGO soda machine, inspired by otlego's version.
Need some help figuring out how to construct geometry in AutoCAD 2011? This clip will teach you everything you'll need to know. Whether you're new to Autodesk's popular 3D drafting application or a seasoned professional just looking to better acquaint yourself with the newest iteration of the program, you're sure to be well served by this video tutorial. For more information, including step-by-step instructions, watch this free video guide.
For those of you not familiar with fascinator hats, they are vintage-style caps with feathers, small veils, and other little knick knacks attached on the sides that were often worn by fashionable women in the '40s and '50s.
Taking the negative of an image in photography brings out its major contours and creates a powerful graphic contrast between white and black. The same sort of effect happens when you construct a card using only the "negatives" and no other colors.
Teach your kids about the ancient Chinese abacus, often used as a counting tool, with the help of a fun arts & crafts project! In this Simple Kid's Crafts tutorial, learn how to construct a Chinese abacus for fun with your kids. This is the perfect project for children ages kindergarden and up! Help your kid's get ahead of the curve with fun, educational arts & crafts projects like this one.
If you use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, odds are you work with numbers. Put those numbers to work. Statistical analysis allows you to find patterns, trends and probabilities within your data. In this MS Excel tutorial from everyone's favorite Excel guru, YouTube's ExcelsFun, the 86th installment in his "Excel Statistics" series of free video lessons, you'll learn how to construct confidence intervals for proportions using NORMSINV function and other formulas.
In this video tutorial, learn how to create a really beautiful, eye popping, neon light "magic effect". Brighten up your asthetic presentation with this cool Photoshop trick, originally found on this blog. This tutorial is constructed using Adobe Photoshop CS3, but please note: This trick does work with CS4, but yields sightly different results. One can download the font used in this tutorial, here.
These are simple instructions on how to construct a PVC didgeridoo. You must work in a well ventilated area as you are dealing with heat and PVC fumes. You need a heat gun, pipe clamp, screwdriver, pipe cutter, dremel, PVC pipe, buffing bit and bucket of water. This is a detailed process of digeridoo making.
Can't afford a camera dolly? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to make your own low budget camera dolly. The materials you'll need to construct this dolly are:
Check out this how-to guide on constructing a penny-stove. This video will take you through each small step of making the penny alcohol stove for camping or just for the garage.
Learn how to construct a shelter in the woods from Andrew Price of Dyad Bushcraft. Where are the best places to build shelter? What should you look for? Andrew will teach you what a 'basha' is and how to tie the best knots to build hammocks and other wilderness shelters.
Since Motorola engineer Bill Smith invented Six Sigma in 1986, corporations around the world have employed it to eliminate costs and process cycle time while increasing profits and customer satisfaction. These techniques and tools for process improvement were invaluable to famed CEO Jack Welch, who used them to redefine General Electric's business strategy in 1995.
In this tutorial, we learn how to construct a mouse trap car. You will need: wood, string, wood glue, duct tape, scissors, markers, a mousetrap, wheels, and a drill to do this. To start, you will lift the mousetrap up and tape duct tape around it along with a long stick. Then, tape this to a piece of wood. From here, you will glue together two sticks and then put wheels on the top and bottom of it. Next, you will lay the mousetrap on top of this and then push it. Then it will roll away! You c...
Have you ever wondered how your grandfather constructed the ship-in-a-bottle on his mantlepiece? Are you frustrated by the poor instructions that came with the kit you bought at your local hobby shop? The people at Storm the Castle certainly were, and so they made this video to show you how to complete your ship-in-a-bottle kit using basic hobby tools, including a very small drill bit, very small clamp, and very small paint brushes. No hobbyist's collection is complete without one of these.