If you're like most people, you've stretched before a workout or playing sports. Doing so should help you get your muscles ready to work. While stretching is good for your muscles, you're wasting your time if it's the first thing you do. I talked to Dr. Brian Parr, professor at the Dept. of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of South Carolina Aiken, who explained this misconception and what you can do about it:
Want to tone every muscle of your body at the same time while building strength that's so crucial for performing well as an athelete? Then the Heavy A Prowler move is exactly what you need to add to your workout regimen.
Stretching before and after a workout helps loosen muscles so rather than building bulk you're builidng lean legs and arms. Combine the benefits of stretching with balancing on one foot and you've got a nearly perfect exercise.
Stronger legs and feet equal more endurance capacity when running, whether you do long distance or prefer sprinting. So make sure you don't injure yourself and prevent plantar fasciitis by completing this simple runner's exercise.
In this clip, learn how to peel an orange in the healthiest way possible. This way is easier for people with muscle problems because you use a knife, keeps you hands cleaner and retains part of the rind so you stay even healthier and get even more vitamins and minerals. Follow talk show host Jenny Jones as she demonstrates a fast, delicious and efficient way to enjoy more citrus.
With any form of dance, flexibility is key to making sure you don't pull any kind of muscles. There are various ways to help improve your flexibility, and this tutorial will help show you one.
If you're looking to pick up on belly dancing, this is something that is very sensual and is sure to help you focus on controlling certain parts of your body. In this dance, you're able to focus on certain muscles in your body, but one of the most important to focus on is the torso area.
Just because you're pregnant, doesn't mean you still can't exercise! Pilates is a great method of conditioning the body during a pregnancy. Common Pilates exercises for pregnant women include pelvic tilts and other adduction exercises, which strengthen abdominal muscles. Get some great advice from Pilates expert, Ann Arnoult, in this video.
Warm up your muscles with simple ballet barre exercises including: simple lies, tendus, degages, ronde de jambes, port de bras and frappes. Get a free demonstration and lesson from this ballet and pointe expert: Mikael Monson is an instructor specializing in ballet and pointe at the Virtuosity Performing Arts Studio/Vancouver Elite Gymnastics Academy in Camas, Washington. Learn more ballet from this expert by searching WonderHowTo! You're only practice time away from ruling the dance floor!
Update your Ford Mustang to a more appropriate custom look! With dome lights! If you're looking for a new feel for your Mustang, then US Muscle Mods can help. 'Stang LED lights are the way to go for dome lights. See how to install Mustang LED dome lights.
Check out this wrestling drill from Barry Davis Wrestling. This is a basic drill to be used during warm-up or warm-down that helps strengthen the neck muscles.
Decline barbell bench presses are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to strengthen your muscles with barbell presses on a declined bench. Learn tips and techniques for working out the chest, back, shoulders, and arms in this weightlifting video.
Check out this video tutorial on how to dissect the eye of a cow. If you like science, and you like animal anatomy, then why not go out and get your own cows eye for dissecting, and more importantly, learning? You'll see the cornea, the iris, the ciliary muscle, the eye tissue, and more.
Learn these jumping techniques so as to not place too much pressure on the muscles and joints. It's a good idea to watch this video first before trying other plyometric or jumping drills.
Learn to perform a Jiu Jitsu Banana Split leg submission. This is a submission for grappling not self defense. It attacks the groin by pulling the muscles apart.
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The hamstring is a large muscle in the back of the thigh. A hamstring injury is a partial tear of the muscle. Learn how to diagnose and treat a hamstring injury in this medical how to video.
A dislocated shoulder results when the head of the humerus pops out of the socket joint. This is not a gradual event, but rather a sudden even where the shoulder moves out of its normal location. Learn how to treat a dislocated shoulder and stay fit in this sports medicine how to video.
Thigh Masters are an inexpensive and easy way to build muscle strength. Work the inner thighs, outer thighs and chest muscles with simple Thigh Master exercises in this free fitness video series from a professional fitness instructor.
Practicing yoga has many known health benefits, and this video shows you how to master what is called the Warrior 3 pose. This pose teaches you how to engage all your body's muscles for the purposes of improving your balance.
This exercise will help work out both your lats and your core abdomnial muscles! You will need an assortment of dumbbells for this exercise to work. Don't forget to stretch, and always talk to your doctor before starting a new exercise regimen!
If you're drawing someone in profile, and they have strong, muscular arms, you'll need this tutorial. It demonstrates how you can draw people from the side and, using perspective and a strong working knowledge of the human body, draw realistic arm muscles.
If you want to draw someone with a muscular arm from the front, this tutorial is for you. Using perspective and an advanced knowledge of the human body, you're shown how to draw male and female arm muscles using the front view.
In this clip, Athena Jezik demonstrates a leg massage technique to work, soothe and relax leg muscles. This massage can stand on its own or be incorporated into a full body massage routine. The more you know about massage, the better you'll be at giving them. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, watch this video guide.
In this brief health-minded video tutorial from ICYou, we learn about the benefits and strength-building potential of the cross-training exercise method. For details, and to get started creating and following your own custom cross-training exercise routine, watch this free video guide.
A little tidbit of fitness advice: Always do cardio first, and strength training afterwards. Cardio builds heat in your body and lubricates joints so once you're lifting weights or doing muscle-specific moves you're less likely to break something and you're also burning more calories.
Always talk to your doctor before staring an exercise regimen, especially when you are pregnant! Rather than getting into better shape, the goal for a pregnancy workout should be maintaining muscle strength. This video lists several good tips for pregnant women to still exercise while expecting.
There are a plethora of reasons why you should practice yoga, from easier breathing to increased flexibility to clearing your mind. But there's another super important reason you should take up the art of the pretzel-limbed: It helps build strength all throughout your body, which means you'll be less likely to pull a muscle or throw out your back in real life.
Strength training is the foundation of ripped abs, buxom biceps, and atheletes that don't throw in the towel just because a particular fight is too hard or strenuous. In order to make those big time events seem as easy as pie, you have to train hard on your own.
This clip presents a walkthrough of how to model and rig a muscly arm within MAXON C4D. Whether you're new to MAXON's popular 3D modeling application or are just looking to get better acquainted with Cinema 4D and its various features and functions, you're sure to enjoy this free video software tutorial. For more information, and to get started using this trick in your own Cinema 4D projects, watch this 3D modeler's guide.
School's out, and if you're single and ready to mingle, watch this episode of The Wing Girls for ten tips for meeting women this summer. Whether it's making sure not to commit to anything serious (hey, you have to play the field and be thorough to find the One, right?), getting a ripe tan that enhances your bulging muscles, or attending every single party you can find, there are lots of things you can do to throw some notches on that belt before school starts again in fall.
Splits on the ground challenge your lower body strength, working your hamstrings, thighs, calves, and glutes all at once. But do a split in the air and you add your core and upper body to the grab bag of muscles you're working out.
Get your b-ball game on with this video on how to warm up for basketball! Learn a few great exercises to help perfect your basketball skills on the court! Begin with these warm-up drills to get your muscles warm and your skills even warmer!
Resistance training garners the support of gravity to weigh you down as much as possible. It's painful to do but builds the same muscles in half the time.
Score those famously fit football player shoulders by watching this video, which teaches you how to perform a pull up exercise.
Chiropractors always come home from a hard day's work with a smile on their face because so many adults have back pain that just won't go away.
Trying to perfect your manga anime drawn characters? Getting down the muscle curvatures and details like hair and eyes can be difficult. Learn how to draw anime or manga hair with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a variety of characters and cartoons!
Trying to perfect the manga anime body of a drawn character? Getting the muscle curvatures and details down can be difficult. Learn how to draw a manga anime body figure with help from Drawing Now. Search WonderHowTo for more videos from Drawing Now to learn how to draw a variety of characters and cartoons!
This exercise routine is easy to do and can be performed anywhere, especially the home. It focuses on training the muscles in the buttocks area and is a popular exercise routine with women. So check out how to perform hip extensions in this video tutorial. Enjoy!
Work those glutes with this free home fitness guide, which presents a number of simple exercises that you can perform at home that will help you to firm your posterior—namely squats and hip lifts. Tune into specific muscles when exercising isolated areas with help from a personal trainer in this free video on glute exercises for moms.
