Body Sculpting How-Tos
How To: Do abdominal exercises
Get each to follow instructions for abdominal exercises, including crunches, oblique exercises, elbow knee exercises, the pencil crunch.
How To: Exercise on a balance board
In this video series, learn how to exercise on a balance board. Our expert trainer, Steven Vargas, shows you how to do a variety of workouts using the board. Learn how to do push ups, squats, and lunges. Steven shows you to work your abs, triceps, and biceps.
How To: Tone arms and core with exercise bands and a partner
The Fitness Gals at Diet.com bring you a workout that will tone your arms and core using an exercise band with a partner. This fitness routine can be done at home, no gym required. All you need is an exercise band with handles.
How To: Get a full body workout using exercise bands
In this segment you learn how to get a great full body workout using an exercise (resistance) band with handles.
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: Use a foam roller to work your core muscles
Sarah and Katrina show you how to use a Foam Roller and the different to increase stability and flexibility, by really working your core muscles. Katrina shows you how to do a pushup and works your abs in this video.
How To: Do hip lifts
Hip lifts may look simple but they are trickier and tougher than they appear. But do them every day and you'll be on your way to a sexier butt in no time!
How To: Do the single-leg, straight-leg dead lift
With the single-leg, straight-leg dead lift you'll be sure to bring sexy back and ready for bikini season in no time. Did we mention it will also tone your legs and butt?
How To: Do the row-to-press exercise
The row-to-press strenthens your abs, back and shoulders at the same time. This is a great way to get a your core and back in shape.
How To: Use a fitness disc
This is a great video clip series that shows you 26 different possible exercises you can do with a fitness disc that attack unused muscles in parts of your body you don't even realize have them.
How To: Do tricks of a strong man
One of the classic tricks of the strongman is demonstrated in this video. The effect is quite striking, eventhough it involves very little else than simple physical and mechanical principles. Do tricks of a strong man.
How To: Properly work your abs
Been trying for those 6-pack abs without much success? According to oodelboxTV fitness guru Wes Cole, odds are you aren’t working out the correct type of muscle fibers. What? Watch and learn what that means AND how to get a brick belly.
How To: Get a six pack with ab exercises
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.
How To: Get strong arms like Madonna
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!
How To: Get a butt makeover
Use various leg exercises to get the butt you want and the energy you love! This side lunge with leg lift exercise will tone your glutes, inner thighs and quads giving you a lower body that's tight and toned.
How To: Strengthen your lower traps for better posture
Tension in the trapezius muscle, located in the shoulder, is very common. At the end of a long day, do you find your shoulders up around your ears? Learn how to strengthen your lower trapezius to keep loose and limber. Strengthen your lower traps for better posture.
How To: Tone the buns
Tone and strengthen your thighs and buns with these three effective techniques. You will learn 3 great ways to tighten up your glutes or buns as they are often called.
How To: Perform a triceps workout without weights
Chris Cooke demonstrates how to perform a triceps workout without weights by doing dips, overhead press, and kickbacks. Each of these repetitions should be done ten times. As no weights are involved you could exercise anywhere you like, as long as you have some space. Perform a triceps workout without weights.
How To: Exercise your shoulders without using weights
Chris Cooke demonstrates how you can exercise your shoulders without using weights. You can do presses, flys, and front raises. Each of these exercises should be done ten times. All you need is two water bottles to shape and tone your shoulders. Exercise your shoulders without using weights.
How To: Do close-grip pull-ups
This video demonstraates how to do a close-grip pull-up. This exercise primarily works the latisimus dorsi and the middle back and secondary the biceps. You use a v-bar attachment on the pull-up bar and hold handles with both hands. Do close-grip pull-ups.
How To: Do pull-ups chair assisted
This video demonstrates how to do pull-ups assisted by a chair. This way of doing pull-ups can be used with close-grip, front or rear pull-ups. Don't use the chair unless you really need it. Do pull-ups chair assisted.
How To: Do seated rows with a theraband
This video demonstrates howto do seated rows with a theraband. This exerciswe works the latisimus dorsi and upper back. Doon't lean to far back when pulling the theraband to your chest, your body should end in the upright position. Do seated rows with a theraband.
How To: Do lunges with a theraband
This video demonstrates how to do lunges with a theraband. This exercise primarily works the quadriceps and the buttocks and secondarily works the hamstring. Once you have completed a set you switch legs and repeat. Do lunges with a theraband.
How To: Do a bent over lateral raise with dumbbells
This video demonstrates a bent over lateral raise with dumbells. This exercise works primarily on the side and rear shoulders and secondarily the trapezius. The weights should be light for this exercise. Do a bent over lateral raise with dumbbells.
How To: Do shrugs with a dumbbell
This video demonstrates how to do shrugs with dumbbells.This exercise works the trapezius. You must lift with your shoulders only for this to be effective. Do shrugs with a dumbbell.
How To: Do a lateral raise with a theraband
This video demonstrates how to do a lateral raise with a theraband. This exercise primarily works the shoulders and secondarily the trapezius. You must resist the therabands force and always use slow controlled movements. Do a lateral raise with a theraband.
How To: Do a tricep push down with a theraband
This video demonstrates how to do a tricep pushdown with a theraband. Your upper arm should be stationary and perpendicular to the floor at all times, you push down until your arms are fully extended. Hold for a few seconds and then slowly return to the starting position. Do a tricep push down with a theraband.
How To: Do bent-knee push-ups
This video demonstrates how to do a proper bent-knee push-up. This exercise primarily works the chest and seconly the shoulders and triceps. When you raise up you hold for a second flexing your chest. Do bent-knee push-ups.
How To: Do decline push-ups
This video demonstrates how to do a proper decline push-up. You need to prop your feet up on a bench or something similar 2-4 feet high. This exercise works primarily the middle and upper chest and secondly the shoulders and triceps. Do decline push-ups.
How To: Do bent kick crosses
This video demonstrates a bent kick cross. This exercise works the buttocks. You do this exercise on all fours with your back straight, resting on palms and knees. Do bent kick crosses.
How To: Do standing kick-backs
This video shows the way to do standing kick backs. This exercise works the buttocks. You stand facing a wall with hands in front of you resting on the wall. All of your weight should be shifted to the leg your not using. this is a great exercise because you can do it anywhere. Do standing kick-backs.
How To: Strengthen abs and core muscles with free weights
We're going to look at 2 great core strengthening exercises. The Core Area, the abdominals, definitely corresponds with a stronger back so it's something that you want to do several times a week, once the body is warmed up, and remember to keep breathing so that you're supplying oxygen to those working muscles.
How To: Do cross-overs with a theraband
This video shows how to do cross-overs with a theraband. Add this exercise to your next chest routine. Don't let your back move while doing this exercise, keep it straight and your abdominals tight. Do cross-overs with a theraband.
How To: Do pelvic lifts
This demonstrates how to properly do pelvic lifts and works the buttocks. You lie on the floor with your knees bent. Your arms should be flat on the floor with your palms down on the floor. Make sure not to arch your back. Do pelvic lifts.
How To: Do toe raises
This video demonstrates how to do toe raises. This exercise works the anterior tibialis. This exercise needs no special equipment, you just hold onto the wall for balance, but if possible you should use a step or weight to create a slight elevation. Your body should remain upright. Do toe raises.
How To: Repair a knee with a damaged meniscus
A decade ago, patients who damaged their meniscus in their knee joint faced a painful, even crippling future. But a new technique can put the spring back in bad knees. The new technique is a meniscus transplant. Repair a knee with a damaged meniscus.
How To: Do a 20 minute abs workout
This is a 20 min ab work out video. The trainer shows you how to go through the perfect 20 min routine. This video may be long, but it shows you how to get those six-pack abs.
How To: Do the Asian squat
We will show you how to do the Asian squat and compare it to the western squat. It has been used for centuries and is believed to have originated in India. The Asian squat is perfect for when you don't want to sit or stand and allows for greater stability than a Western squat.
How To: Firm abdominal muscles
Kim is a Ford Fitness Model. She will show you three different exercises that she does to keep her abdominal muscles nice and firm. Great workout! Firm abdominal muscles.
How To: Get tight and toned legs
Jenny Lynn goes through a very fast pace workout with Charles Glass as she prepares for the 2006 Figure Olympia. Watch and learn how to do some weight training exercises that will keep your legs tight, toned and sculpted without the bulk. Be patient with this video, the exercises come in the later part.