The side leg lift series is part of the classical Pilates repertoire and the circles strengthen the core, flatten the abdominal muscles and tone the inner and outer thighs. If you feel strain in your lower back, bring your legs slightly forward of your body, but for a real challenge, maintain a perfectly straight line and bring your top hand to your hip. Watch this fitness how to video and you'll be strengthening your body with pilates in no time.
Learn a few yoga poses from a professional. Watch this Yoga How-to video to learn how to do the pigeon pose. This popular yoga pose is also known as the swan pose. Open up your hip muscles with yoga by practicing the yin pigeon pose.
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.
Grow your psychic and magic skills like a muscle with tips from this training video. This is an introduction or a new way to look at the basics if Wicca. Practice every day.
Perform a clams and piriformis stretch for ballet. This is a short ballet video to show you a fantastic way of strengthening and lengthening your turout muscles!
Nancy teaches you the art of dowsing with the pendulum & L-rods, and muscle testing.
This video is a demonstration of post-kayaking exercises to help improve strength and muscle balance after kayaking.
Learn how to warm up for basketball with a great drill for stretching out the quad muscles - butt kicks. The first video covers proper form around half the court, and the second goes over drills.
Whatever you want your arms to do, stretching your triceps will help prepare them for it—whether you're after muscles to rival the Incredible Hulk or just want to avoid embarrassing injuries bench-pressing the bar.
This video goes over the entire process of a paraffin bath - from set up to application, for stress relief and muscle relaxation.
Learn how to use different types of jumping exercises (plyometrics) to maximize your muscle speed.
Learn how to train your leg and arm muscles to maximize your speed using this Reach Run drill.
Learn how to use plyometric workouts like these death jumps in order to build a better stretch reflex in your leg muscles for playing football or soccer.
Learn how to utilize this resisted arms drill using hand-weights in order to build up resistance and achieve maximum muscle recruitment.
Don't pull a muscle getting a pack on your back. If you don't have a friend to help or a rock to rest it on, here's how to do it safely and easily. Learn more from Backpacker's Gear School in the March 2007 Gear Guide, and at www.backpacker.com/video.
The fitness gals of Diet.com bring you a heart pumping circuit workout you can do anywhere while traveling for the holidays! This exercise video shows you how to hit all the major muscle groups giving you a total body workout in just 18 minutes.
Katherine and Kimberly Corp show you how to do the Half Roll Down with Obliques pilates exercise. This exercise is used for strengthening your core and helps develop the muscles to do more advanced pilates exercises like the Hip Twist and Teaser.
Katherine and Kimberly Corp show you how to do the half swan pilates exercise. This exercise is used for relieving neck and shoulder tension and strengthening the upper back muscles.
Another excellent breakdown of swimming the breast stroke. Memorize the leg and arm positions. It is important to glide and stretch to achieve ultimate streamline. Dr Rein Haljand explains each movement in detail.
You can learn how to get a six pack and strengthen your abdominal muscles. You do sit ups, extend your knees, and keep them together.
This arm exercise will tone up your arms in no time. Use dumbbells to sculpt and form the kind of muscle you need to look good like Madonna!
Blowing dust and fungal spores are creating a public health problem that could be just a slice of what's to come with climate change.
Drawing human subjects can be tough if you're not an experienced artist. getting every detail just right it quite a task, because of the intricateness of the human body. But Merrill is going to show you how it's done.
This is a special four-part series on the human head, neck and skull. Medical students can greatly benefit from watch this anatomy video series. Dr. Gita Sinha "dissects" all of the information pertaining to the head and neck. Dr. Sinha is Assistant Professor for the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at Dalhouse University. Each of these videos cover a different topic:
Learn how to do dumbbell fly to presses. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits
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Learn how to stop a cough with acupressure. The next time you're hacking up a lung, try stopping it with the ancient Chinese healing art acupressure.
Learn how to do a standing barbell curl drop set while leaning against a wall. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.
How can bacteria that lives in the throat of 10%–35% of people—without causing an infection—cause life-threatening meningitis and sepsis in others?
Most of us equate feeling cold with catching a virus—but we've also heard plenty of debunkers proselytizing that being cold isn't what gives you the flu.
Lose weight while sitting on the bus, train, or in your car with these stealthy moves. You Will Need
Those stretches you learned as a kid – called "static stretching" – can actually weaken muscles before exercise. Learn how to warm up the right way, with "dynamic" stretching. Watch this video to learn how to warm up and stretch correctly before exercise.
One way to improve your arm strength and work out your bicep muscles is with curl exercises. All you need are some dumbbells and some time. This video shows you an alternative curl routine called the side curl, which is a type of concentration curl. It begins at the side, then you curl the weights in toward your chest.
Don't want to end up like Quasimodo from the Hunchback of Notre-Dame? Then it's time to get serious and start practicing some good techniques and exercises to making sure you're not developing that (or any) kind of hunchback. Follow the tips in this video to make sure you spine and muscles stay strong, and your body standing tall.
Natalli Reznik of "So You Think You Can Dance" fame goes through her warm up routine and shows you, step-by-step, how to turn professional dance moves into a great workout that'll focus on your abs, legs, and other muscles. The sweat will flow and the inches will burn as long as you're consistent with it!
Are you suffering from severe back pain or tension? Releave that pain naturally with help from this video. Author and Creator, David P. Morrow of the Fat Into The Fire books and program provides a free demonstration of how to reduce back pain, reduce muscle tenstion and reduce stress. It is a simple yet effective breathing and stretching technique.
Barely able to lift your head off your bed to do exercise? No problem, the exercise can come to you!
Sculpt all the muscles in your body with help from an exercise ball! In this video from authoritative source Diet.com, learn how to do a ball plank roll out on an exercise ball with correct form. Get that body in shape in time for summer with help from this free exercise guide!
It is important to stretch and get loose before any sport, and golf is no exception. Just because golf is a slower sport, doesn't mean you don't need to be limber. Take just a few minutes to stretch your arms, shoulders and leg muscles prior to warming up with any rotational forces such as practice swings Your instructor for this clip is Laird Small. So, start stretching and get ready to swing!
A common move in golf is the 'waggle'. The waggle during the set up is a very important part of the swing because it keeps your muscles relaxed so that you can start your swing smoothly. Waggling is similar to the shake a baseball player does before he gets up to bat. So, check out this tutorial for information and tips on waggling and make sure you are loose enough to sink that ball.
