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How To: Do a bouncing push up for MMA fighters
Don't even attempt this exercise if you're not trusting of gravity (and have amazing core balance). Combining one-armed push-ups with chest bounces from the stability ball, the exercise is dependent on your core strength and trust that the ball won't fly away as you come down.
How To: Tone your core with a stability ball ab plank
Unless your name is Jessica Alba, you probably weren't born with a pack of abs that resembles a cheese grater. But whether you're skinny as a rail or have recently let yourself go (to McDonald's a few too many times) and are concealing a nice pair of man boobs, you can perfect your midsection.
How To: Protect shoulder blades by doing specialized push ups
Push ups not only give you sculpted, toned shoulders and pectoral muscles, but they also keep your shoulder bone, or scapula, in place and moving around your ribcage without popping up.
How To: Work out your abs without hurting your back
Working out your abs strengthens your core, the center of your body that holds everything together. The stronger your core is, the stronger the rest of your body will be.
How To: Strengthen your entire body with the side ab plank
Think the plank pose is just about hard enough to make you cry for your momma? Well, you haven't seen - or done - nothing yet. Watch this video to see how to maneuver the side plank pose, which basically tips the plank pose on the side for a full body exercise.
How To: Do a perfect Bulgaria split squat
Splits and squats are not two words you want to hear together when describing an exercise, but luckily the love child of the two is a lot kinder and gentler than either.
How To: Strengthen legs with a leg circuit workout
If you haven't discovered circuit training you haven't discovered how to lose weight and burn calories in half the time you'd usually take doing any exercise. By doing strength training exercises in circuits, or rounds of repititions, you keep your heart rate up and blood pumping to all of your muslces so they stay pliable and active.
How To: Tone obliques with side ab crunches on a swiss ball
Lateral muslces - better known as your obliques or love handles - typically don't get trained during ab workouts which focus on upper and lower abs but nothing on the side.
How To: Do deeper and better squats
Squats are important not only for toning your glutes and thighs, but if you do them often enough they also increase flexibility and core strength, making surviving a day at the office easier.
How To: Perform triceps kickbacks to tone triceps
Despite what the name may imply, triceps kickbacks don't involve kicking of any sort. Rather, this tricep-sculpting exercise move involves getting down to a near squat position and bringing a dumbbell forward and back, keeping the shoulders stead and down.
How To: Sculpt your body with an outdoor bleacher workout
We've all come up with lame excuses for not working out: Gym memberships can get really pricey, you don't have enough room in your living room to follow a workout tape, you're too tired, etc. But have you ever considered simply hitting up your local high school track field?
How To: Create chiseled abs with fatiguing ab exercises
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.
How To: Firm your derriere with lunge exercises
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.
How To: Do beginner pull-ups to strenghten and tone your back
Think you can't do pull-ups because you're a fitness neophyte and can hardly do a single push-up or pull-up? As intimidating as pull-ups may seem (we often only see beefy chunkheads doing them in gyms), they're actually modifiable for beginners.
How To: Get six pack abs without a single crunch
Do you hate doing crunches but desire six pack abs? Well, most would say "good luck!" but this video from Turbulence Training Secrets is here to tell you different. Learn how to do ab-working core circuit training without laying on the ground and doing endless reps of crunches and sit-ups that can hurt your lower back. Learn how to get rid of that buldge on your belly with help from this video!
How To: Do core exercise for great abs
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 a
How To: Get awesome abs plank exercises
Interested in getting those six pack abs that will blow away the ladies? The main reason to workout abs is because strong abs will stabilize your lower back and prevent you from an injury... but as a side benefit, a 6-pack looks great! In this video presented by Fat Loss Lifestyle, learn how to do the "Face Down and Side Plank" core exercise. It is a functional, athletic movement for athletes sure to get you the abs you've always dreamed of!
How To: Get great abs and avoid the usual pitfalls
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.
How To: Get ridiculous abs in 6 minutes by using your couch
Looking to sculpt those abs for the coming summer? Don't have enough cash for a gym membership? Look good in your swimsuit with help from this video on how to get ridiculous abs in 6 minutes by using your couch.
How To: Strengthen abs with hula hoop pilates
Pilates is a great exercise for toning abs, but seldom do pilates junkies break a sweat. Turn the sticky mat sport into a cardio routine by watching this video on how to do hula hoop pilates.
How To: Do exercises to strengthen your upper and lower back
Visit any gym and you'll see almost all the fitness freaks crunching their abs and lifting weights to tone their arms and midsection. But toning your back is just as important for looking lean and staying strong and fit.
How To: Perform a pull up exercise to strengthen shoulders
Score those famously fit football player shoulders by watching this video, which teaches you how to perform a pull up exercise.
How To: Avoid back pain with back-strengthening exercises
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.
How To: Prevent lower back pain with the Superman pose
Relive your tender childhood memories of running around your house in a Superman costume pretending you're rescuing the damsel in distress with this lower back-strengthening pose.
How To: Get rid of man boobs for good
Are your man boobs, or the man boobs or someone close to you, weighing you down? Well then Yuri is here to help with some common-sense advice on how to burn fat most effectively and get those things off your chest by burning a lot of calories, increasing your lean muscle mass and thus your metabolic rate.
How To: Get bigger arms using heavy bicep curls
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.
How To: Tone your abs in eight minutes
Whether you're a guy or gal, six pack abs are always preferable to a family pack, even if you think some squishiness in the tummy is cute.
How To: Get skinny legs with squat exercises
Do feel as if your legs are the bulkiest part of your body? It tends to be a huge complaint according to Trainer Josh. In this video, learn how to get those skinny legs you desire through the power of squats! This is a great quick circuit to throw into your workouts that will help cut out the bulkiness and start to trim your legs down so you can finally fit into those skinny jeans!
How To: Develop torso strength with a homemade tornado ball
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.
How To: Do exercises with a medicine ball
Medicine balls are useful workout tools. They are great for strengthening your muscles and sculpting your body. In this tutorial from Modern Mom, get used to using a medicine ball and learn some helpful exercises. This video offers advice from model and actress, Brooke Burke and professional fitness trainer Autumn Calabrese.
How To: Do exercises for lifting & firming breasts
Being a woman means lots of things for your body. While our bodies do pretty amazing things like give birth and carry children, they can also take quite a beating from these miracles. In this tutorial, learn what you can do to help improve the lift and firmness of your breasts after pregnancy or with age.
How To: Perform hip extensions for woman
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!
How To: Define your lower abs with bar exercises
In this video, John Alvino talks about his favorite lower ab exercises. The first is called the lowball pulling. You begin by putting your feet on top of a swiss ball, put your hands in push up position, have good stability and bring your knees towards your chest and then extend it out, all while contracting your abs. The next lower ab exercise Alvino discusses is called the hanging knee raise. With an overhead bar, grip on to the bar and allow your body to hang in a pull up position. Bring y...
How To: Get ripped abs with a bosu ball
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 tha...
How To: Get great lower abs with floor work outs
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to build great lower abdominal muscles. This exercise is done on the floor. Begin by lying down with your back on the floor. This exercise is called a lower leg curl with a heel press finish. Place the hands flat and palms facing the floor. Bring the feet up in a curl and extend the feet on the top of the rep. As your extend your legs, contract down on the muscles in your stomach. This video will benefit those viewers who are interested in health and ...
How To: Get skinny legs through thigh and hip extensions
In this tutorial, learn some easy leg exercises that you can do at home or the gym. These exercises don't require much space or any equipment and you can learn them pretty quickly.
How To: Get a ripped chest at home
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.
How To: Do a really really good back work out
Jenny DiDonato with MadefitTV demonstrates a really good back workout. The first exercise is called the Resistance Band Lat Pull Down. Hold the resistance band above the head and bring it down the back to the shoulders and back up again. Do 20-30 repetitions.
How To: Exercise with a physio ball for thinner thighs
This video is teaching a great exercise for thinner thighs and flatter abs for bikini season. The name of the exercise is called ball slaps. You will need and big ball about fifty-five centimeters wide. Lay flat on your back with your arms stretched above your head. With your feet grab the ball in the center of its mass and squeeze. You should feel tension on the inside of your thighs. Continue to hold the squeeze in your legs throughout the exercise. Now bring your legs up to the ceiling wit...
How To: Perform a bird dog extension
First of all sit on your knees on the floor. Now place your palms on the floor facing downwards. Now position yourself such that you are resting on the floor on your palms and your knees. Now lift up your right hand and at the same time you have to lift your left leg. Position them in line with your body. Hold for a few seconds. Now bring your right hand and your left leg down. Repeat it for the other hand and leg as well. Keep repeating this exercise for sometime. This exercise helps you in ...