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News: Fitness Workout- Full Body Workout with Matt Mayberry
Former professional athlete and fitness expert takes you through a full body fitness workout!
How To: Strengthen your upper body with alternating T push ups
Learn how to do alternating T push ups. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits
How To: Do yoga handstand splits at the wall
Yoga is for everyone, not just yoga lovers. This yoga how to video shows you how to do a handstand on the wall and move your way away from it. Cultivate your center and your core to build up strength to do a handstand split at the wall.
How To: Learn kickboxing moves
Kickboxing is a martial art sport similar to boxing that allows striking with the hands and (most importantly) the feet. Katie Bowers shows you some moves in this series of videos.
How To: Do mat Pilates exercises to improve your tennis game
This video presents a walkthrough of a number of simple, powerful mat routines that will help to improve both your tennis and golf games. With pilates, as with any physical fitness system, a basic mastery of proper technique is essential for both maximizing the effectiveness of your workouts and avoiding accidental injury. Whether you're looking to slim down or merely tighten up your core, you're sure to be well served by this home fitness how-to from the folks at Balanced Body Pilates. For c...
How To: Choreograph a step aerobics routine
Step aerobics follow choreography in groups using an elevated platform. Classes are offered for all skill levels. Learn how to choreograph a step aerobics routine in this exercise tutorial. Remember to keep it basic, use 32 count phrases, work both sides, build routine, and put it all together. With this how to video you can choreograph a great step aerobics routine.
How To: Pose for female body builder competitions
Learn how to pose when in a female body builder competition.
How To: Tone Your Body
Forget small weights and many repetitions. To tone your body you need to make your muscles bigger and reduce the fat layer covering them.
How To: Eat Before a Workout
Don't make pre-workout nutrition overly complicated! You don't need protein before you start, but should get some carbs instead.
How To: Do Your First Pull-Up and More
If you can't do single pull-up, this video walks you through from negative chin-ups to the first actual, reall pull-up and more.
How To: Do the Long Plank series pilates exercise
Katherine and Kimberly Corp show you how to do the Long Plank Series pilates exercise. This exercise is used for developing ab and lower back strength.
How To: Practice the yoga dolphin dive pose
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.
How To: Stretch the anterior deltoid
Increase the flexibility of your shoulders. Exercises and stretches for your workout routine in this fitness video. Take action: use stretching device, hold stretch for 15 to 30 seconds, then lean farther from hand to increase the stretch, and rotate shoulder to target deltoids. Tom Clifford, the instructor of this how-to video, has a degree in physical education, fitness and health from Eastern Michigan University, where he ran track and cross-country. Tom has worked as a personal trainer fo...
How To: Teach a Pilates bootcamp class at your club or studio
This clip demonstrates a sample routine for a Pilates bootcamp-style class, one suitable for studios and small clubs. Whether you're considering the possibility of starting your own Pilates studio or already have one and just need a little help tackling a particular pedagogical problem, you're sure to be well served by this free video lesson from the folks at Balanced Body Pilates. For more information, including a comprehensive overview, watch this video guide.
How To: Get Six Pack Abs
The abdominals can be considered one of the best signals of fitness and strength and is one of the most sought-after muscle groups to develop by both men and women. While the abdominals are very desirable, it can be one of the most difficult areas to distinguish and maintain. This article's purpose is to give you the hard truths, advice, and workout for gaining a hard body and new look.
How To: Do Push-Ups and Crunches to Get Ripped at Home
This how-to video is for anybody looking to gain lean muscle right in the convenience of your own home with little to no equipment. The intensity and variety of these exercises makes for an effective muscle-building workout. Standard Pushup
How To: Do a twisty vinyasa yoga flow sequence
Vinyasa yoga, also known as power yoga, is a strength-building form of yoga that alternates between traditional yoga poses quickly so that yoga becomes a moderate intensity cardio workout as well.
How To: Slim your legs and waist
Get slim, strong and satisfied with these exercise moves. This workout will dissolve that leg and waist fat. Trim the waistline like a Rockette. Start with your hands under hand and lift your leg. Then dip alternate legs. Bring up your elbow to the knee.
How To: Get six pack abs in 12 weeks
In this video, Jeff Cavalier demonstrates how the viewer can obtain six pack abs in just twelve weeks while training at home. He begins by explaining that he will show the viewer five separate work outs techniques. The first exercise is called a X-man crunch. To complete this exercise you must lay on your back, with your body in an "X" shape. You then tighten your stomach muscles and bring your legs and your arms together towards the middle. The second exercise is called Heels to the Heavens....
How To: Perform breath of fire
The breath of fire is used in Kundalini Yoga both in meditation and in physical exercises. It is a quick powerful breath through the nose. This video is a demonstration of how to learn to perform breath of fire properly.
How To: Strenghten your core for yoga poses
Patrick tells you why the core is important, how to find your core, and how to strengthen your core with some basic yoga poses and their variations.
How To: Do water aerobics
In this series of fitness videos, our licensed kineseotherapist and water rehabilitation expert demonstrates a variety of water aerobics exercises you can do in your own pool. From the basics of water marching and running to amphibious aerobics such as jumping jacks to dance moves like the Russian twist, Kay Heaton will guide you through this fitness regimen.
How To: Properly execute the power snatch lift
Learn the correct and safe technique for this speed oriented weight lift - the power snatch. Great for developing power in athletes.
How To: Build an Exercise Machine
I am a runner and have been running with a group of US Marines. They have convinced me to start working out my upper body, along with my running legs. I also like to build things. I have a three and a half foot by seven foot room in my basement, and turned it into a weight machine room. I built an elevator that I can fill with nine pound paver stones. The elevator cable goes over a series of pulleys that allow me to do four different upper body exercises.
How To: Do a 15 minute full body boot camp workout
Diet.com brings you this 15 minute boot camp workout that will blast fat and tone your whole body. These exercises are meant to be done consecutively for a maximum calorie burn and results.
How To: Tone your buttocks with a butt blasting workout
You want to know the real reason people don't exercise? Often, it comes down to having bulky exercise machines. Every time you look at them you get a reminder of how much pain you'll have to go through to get those perfect abs or sculpted butt. So for many of us we simply choose not to do anything.
How To: Do the woodchopper exercise to erase your love handles
Are you looking to slim down and get fit? Want to get rid of your annoying love handles? Add the woodchopper to your routine and improve your core strength and overall fitness. This video provides a clear demonstration of the proper technique for this rotational exercise using a free weight for resistance.
How To: Get a smaller waist and get rid of your love handles
In this quick yet effective video you'll learn how to get a smaller waist and get rid of your love handles. You'll learn how to perform this great routine to help get rid of those love handles and get a smaller waist. After watching this you'll be on the road to that perfect beach bod for the summer.
How To: Do alternate heel touches to lose love handles
This video demonstrates an easy exercise, that anyone can do at home to get rid of love handles and improve overall physique. Lying down on the floor, you must bend your knees and keep your feet 18 to 24 inches apart. With your arms straight down on the side of your body, crunch forward and to the side a few inches, reaching for your left heel with your left hand. Return to the starting position and repeat the exercise to the other side. This is one repetition. This video is a good visual dem...
How To: Increase the Number of Push Ups You Can Do
Consistently used in many forms of physical training, the push up has been considered one of the best physical tests of muscular fitness and endurance. Namely known for its use in the military as well as other physically demanding activities such as boxing and the martial arts, the push up is necessary for any physical examination in which many struggle with.
How To: Perform Basic Movements on the Powertec Workbench Multisystem
New to the Powertec Workbench Multisystem? Then let Team Powertec athlete Ian Lauer show you some basic moves for athletic development. He also discusses the importance of sports training and how regular training can help improve your game. There are a lot of exercises out there, but you need to use the right exercises with the right amount of weight and proper movements in order to be fully functional on the field.
How To: Train Your Triceps on the Powertec Workbench Multisystem
When you train, don't just aim to grow big, but rather aim to be functional once you've reached your greatest physique. Weight training isn't only applicable to bodybuilding; it helps you achieve the physique you have always wanted. In the video below, Team Powertec athlete Ian Lauer shares a few tips on triceps training using the Powertec Workbench Multisystem.
How To: Execute a Fat Burn Circuit Using a Powertec Workbench Multisystem
A certified strength and conditioning specialist, demonstrates the fat burn circuit with the Powertec Workbench Multisystem. He talks about maintaining muscle, gaining muscle, and losing fat with the right set of workouts. In this workout, you will need to use a circuit which involves moving from one exercise to another and doing everything in the same order several times in a row.
How To: Do a Complete Back Exercise with the Powertec Workbench
This video guide demonstrates the best back exercises to use with the Powertec Workbench Multisystem. A lot of people focus more on training the chest and forget about the importance of developing the back muscles - creating an odd posture. This doesn't only look odd but also makes you more susceptible to injury. Be sure to use exercise equipment properly, otherwise you risk hurting yourself.
How To: Exercise Effectively on the Powertec Workbench Multisystem
Do you own a Powertech Workbench? If you do, learn how to exercise effectively while using the Powertec Workbench Multisystem in this walkthrough of the system. This tutorial will demonstrate how to make sure that every rep counts rather than just counting each rep. With appropriate technique, you will get the best out of your training session.
How To: Incorporate Timing and Tempo on the Powertec Workbench Multisystem
One of the top fitness models and Powertec athlete Rob Riches, demonstrates timing and tempo using the Powertec Workbench Multisystem. He emphasizes the importance of both factors in your workout for building more muscle and mass as they both effect your speed and your power. Apply this to your regular workout set and feel the difference.
How To: Tone and decrease the size of your butt
Going, going… gone! Say bye-bye to a big bum with these butt busters. You will need:
How To: Do a bodybuilding crunch exercise for 6-pack abs
Don't let the TV ads convince you to buy some bulky contraption that will gather dust in your closet, crunches are safe and effective! This how-to video shows how to do crunches with varying degrees of difficulty based on your ability. Remember that ab exercises alone will not give you abs! If you have the best abs in the world they will be completely invisible if you are overweight. Aerobic exercise and proper diet are even more important than ab exercises in getting that sought after 6-pack...
How To: Lose love handles and saddle bags with a lifted side plank
Got problem areas? If you do, are you willing to work hard to get rid of them? If the answer is yes, then check out this fitness video for a workout pose that will banish saddle bags and love handles within a few weeks...though we will admit it's a killer.
How To: Perform a yoga tripod headstand pose
Perfecting the right headstand pose in yoga can be a complicated process. You need to be sure that you are practicing the right procedures before you accomplish the headstand so that you do not hurt yourself and so that you can hold the yoga pose for the full duration. This segment will help guide you into it safely.