Pilates exercises involve strengthening the core and flattening the abs, so why are your instructors always talking about the pelvis? This how to video explains the importance of pelvic placement and how it relates to the lower back and the muscles around the hip joint. Just becoming aware of your pelvic placement as you drive your car, walk down the street or do any household activity can help you improve your alignment and strengthen the deep postural muscles of your body.
It is alway important to focus on our body when practicing yoga. But the truth is that we can't always do that. This how-to video has a yoga breathing routine that will help you to tune in and relax at your next yoga session.
Forget the pills for your neck pain, try a little yoga. In this yoga how to video Esther shows you a routine to help keep the neck flexible. These neck exercises also help release tensions in your neck.
Improve your yoga routines my strengthening your upper back. In this yoga how-to video Esther shows you an exercise you can do to mobilize your upper back. Open your chest and improve your posture with this yoga routine.
This how to video explains how to induce a still point on yourself to alleviate the pain and pressure of a headache or migraine. Still points allow the cranio-sacral system to come to a complete stop and rest and start again. This small exercise is not intended for anyone who has a condition that causes increased pressure in the cranium. Watch to learn more about alleviating migrate pain.
this tutorial video from Threadbanger will teach you how to do a little DIY exercise to get ready for Gay Pride in New York City. This video will teach you how to make a DIY flag and hit the Gay Pride parade in Manhattan. You can now bring your pride home with your own flag.
Watch this instructional how to video as fitness expert, Gin Miller, demonstrates the prone row with extension. This quick weight exercise strengthens your core, upper back, and shoulder muscles. It opens the front of your body and uses the mobility of the shoulder.
This sequence of instructional videos provides a near comprehensive lesson on how you can change your voice from that of a male to that of a female. This video series is aimed at aiding transgender individuals, but is also useful for people who want to learn to do really great voice exercises and impersonations.
Watch and learn how to tone your shoulders with four easy exercises. Our host uses weights but you can also use books or cans if you don't have any. Start with military shoulder presses and finish off with lateral raises.
Don't have enough time to workout? Then watch this how to video to learn how to use weights to do a 5 minute workout. These five exercises will help tone biceps and triceps.
Since navigation is the key element in modeling. This exercise will focus on assembling using the viewports. Of course theres ... always a fun way to learn. So I brought back an old childhood toy to add some flare to the lesson.
Learn how to make nitrogen triiodide (NI3), the main ingredient of the small, paper-covered parcels that you throw at the ground to make a snapping noise, with household chemicals and items. This chemical is very unstable, so please exercise caution.
This drill helps improve your cut shot, which is important when an object ball is close to the rail.
Watch to learn some exercises to help you perfect your pool stroke technique. Some of them don't even require a pool table or billiard balls.
These bass drum comping exercises are designed to build independence within your bass drum foot. They work the same way the snare drum comping patterns do, but are focused around the bass drum. They are great for jazz drumming, but are sure to improve many other areas of your drumming at the same time.
The Tendu is one of the fundamental steps of classical dance. If performed correctly, Tendu can be a fantastic exercise for strengthening your feet and lower legs. This little video will give you some tips on how to perfect your Tendu.
Learn how to do a toe touch and a Russian. This is great for cheerleading and dance teams.
Check out this video to learn how-to use the kayak ergo to improve your enjoyment of the water (no, just kidding, there is no water--this is exercise equipment but it can be used to improve your kayaking skills).
Improve your saxophone playing with this easy breathing exercise and posture technique.
This exercise focuses on the coordination of upper and lower body, working your biceps, butt, thighs, and hamstrings.
In this episode, Jamie introduces us to four more exercises - a forward lunge for your legs, skipping for your heart and lungs, a bicep curl and shoulder press for your upper body, and a back extension for your lower back.
This lesson continues the teaching of Spanish verb conjugation and it also provides practice exercises. Watch, listen, learn, and practice.
Watch this instructional video to learn how to do sledgehammer halo exercises.
Watch to learn some exercises to help you strengthen your internal clock for drums.
This is a lesson on nunchaku self defense training & exercise. This is a martial art technique made famous to many American children by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Get those small shirts out of storage after toning your upper body with this exercise! Practice the dolphin dive yoga pose to strengthen your arms, shoulders, back and abdominals.
Bridging movements are some of my favorite Swiss ball exercises. They generally offer a wide progression difficulty. I've used the bent knee bridge with de-conditioned clients in their seventies and challenged young athletes with the advanced variations.
Mainly for beginners, this lesson is about finger picking, and some exercises you can practice.
Learn the correct and safe posture and technique for weight lifting when doing power clean lifts.
Sadie Nardini demonstrates a 10-minute yoga sequence that targets your abs, waist, and lower back.
Sadie Nardini teaches you her "Sadie's 30" core strengthening yoga exercises to improve your balance, poses, and inversions in only 30 seconds a day.
Sitting in front of a computer or at a desk all day is usually no way to stay in shape, but this video goes over a great arm workout you can do while seated!
These plyoquicknic drills focus on box jump and hop exercises. These short, fast, plyometric drills are a great way to improve team or individual sports performance.
How to do hamstring curls on a swiss ball or exercise ball.
The Swiss ball brings an element of instability to basic exercises like the straight leg bridge. This stimulates and conditions your deep core muscles improving spinalstability. In addition to these small but important joint stabilizer muscles the Straight Leg Bridge also targets larger prime movers in your back, glutes and hamstrings.
Get your fingers working smoothly across the fret board and work out cool licks and note combinations you can incorporate into your playing by adding this Minor Pentatonic fingering exercise into your daily practice routine.
Improve your technique and picking speed and prepare yourself for lightning fast solos and complicated melody lines by practicing this killin' 16th note Minor Pentatonic Scale exercise.
Watch this guide to the adductor muscles. This video provides professional advice on massaging techniques for the abdominal muscles. After some physical exercise, there's nothing better then a relaxing massage.
Learn how to use different types of jumping exercises (plyometrics) to maximize your muscle speed.
You don't need an expensive treadmill to get a great cardio workout - you just need exercise bands. This video shows you how.
