Fitness: Page 11

Splits are easy when you're a little kid and flexibility is your friend. But joints and muscles naturally stiffen as you get older, making extreme stretching - including splits - increasingly difficult. You also get jipped of that wonderful hyperactive playtime called recess, when such physical tricks usually take place.

Out of all the celebrities out there now, Kim Kardashian has one of the nicest looking butts around. In this video tutorial, you'll find out how to get a Kim Kardashian butt with just a few simple exercises. Good luck and enjoy!

Due to natural fat storage patterns, a woman's middle section is one of the hardest to tone. Fat tends to aggregate at a woman's belly as a survival mechanism, making it difficult, even with diet and exercise, to cut chub and unearth a six pack.

Lunges are certainly not as loved as cute bikini bottoms, but the two go irrevocably together. Unless you're a genetically gifted mutant (Gisele, we hate you), you probably don't have a rock solid, perfect pair of butt cheeks and most likely deal with small amounts of chub and cellulite.

From Fat Loss Lifestyle, learn how to get great abs through a core exercise. To begin, lie on your back with your knees bent at a 90, feet flat on the floor and the small of your back pushed flat into the floor. Take in avery slow long breathe and start to slowly exhale ¾ of your air while you are pulling your belly button down toward your spine. At the same time, push your lower back into the floor and drive your chin down toward your chest slightly. Once you have ¾ of your air out, hold your...

Want to get those abs showing by summertime? Better start working on it now! In this video learn how to get great abs and avoid the usual pitfalls. Look excellent in your bathing suit or bikini this summer with the advice in this free video presented by Vince DelMonte Fitness.

If you're a fitness guru/weight training buff finding your normal weight lifting routine a bore, watch this video for a challenging way to increase resistance for an up-tempo workout.

If you're on a diet and exercise routine, it's probably better to do a few lateral arm lifts and bicep curls than to scarf down a donut if you have a few minutes to spare.

Whereas mental weights are often despised as mettlesome and fatiguing, dumbbell weights are welcomed as soul rejuvenating pleasures that spic, span, and slenderize contours.

Unless you're tightrope walking, stability is quite a fun killer. Relish in the unknown by learning how to do bicep curls with an exercise ball incline. By forcing your core and your back to deal with the bouncy, unstable nature of the ball, you'll have to work those areas in addition to the biceps.

Your core - or, according to the discipline of pilates, your powerhouse - is the point from which all you movements originate. That's why it is vital to maintain a strong, healthy core that helps reduce lower back strain and chances of injury.

The BOSU sounds like a children's toy, but it's actually a half ball that aids exercisers in toning their stabilizer muscles and their core.

If you are sitting at your computer right now lamenting your underdeveloped biceps and the laughs they draw when you go to the gym or the beach, watch this video. Herein you will learn how simple heavy bicep curls will beef them up quicly and effectively.

Barely able to lift your head off your bed to do exercise? No problem, the exercise can come to you!

Get that body toned and conditioned for a balanced life with the help of Pilates! In this Pilates tutorial conducted by expert, Ann Arnoult, learn how to use a Pilate Reformer. The Pilates Reformer builds on the idea of mat exercises, adding new levels of resistance with weight-bearing exercises. Improve the quality of movement, posture, flexibility and range of motion with help from a Pilates specialist in this free video.

The strength of your torso is helpful in many exercises. If you plan on body sculpting or weight lifting, you will need to have a stong enough upper body to support it. In this tutorial, learn how to use a tornado ball to increase your strength.When developing rotational torso strength, coaches sometimes ask you to use a tool called the "tornado ball".This video will show you a quick way to make your own tornado ball that is durable, adjustable, inexpensive and utilizes tools that you already...

If you feel like your muscles are starting to sag and weaken, check out this tutorial. In this video, professional fitness trainer, Kathy Kaehler, will show you how to perform some simple strength training exercises that will make a big difference for your body. These exercises are quick and easy and will even fit into the schedules of working or busy moms. Kathy trains many celebrities and appears as fitness correcspondent on the Today Show in New York City. Follow along with her as she...

Are you looking to get big, burly arms? If you are into bodybuilding, or are just trying to perfect your physique.. have a look at this video. In it, you will learn how to do a finishing exercise and get bigger biceps. It is probably best if you do these exercises as a more seasoned bodybuilder, so that you do not hurt yourself.But, if you need to beef up for any reason, this tutorial will show you a quick and easy to understand gym exercise that will get you to your goal.

Yuri Elkaim, personal fitness coach, shows you a five-exercise Bosu Ball workout that will tone your abs fast. The first exercise is a pushup on the Bosu Ball with the spherical side down. With your torso down, lift one leg up from the floor. Bring the torso down, then back up, and pull the raised leg into your body, then back out. Alternate legs each time, and do as many of these as you can. In the second, turn the Bosu Ball flat-side down and align your buttocks and back on top of it so...

In order to get a ripped lower and upper chest, without going to a gym, you will need something to prop your knees up. You can use your bed or a chair. To recreate your incline and decline chest press exercises, a modified pushup substitutes for it. Watch your posture and your spine alignment, when you are doing them.