In this clip, see how to perform a senior-friendly Pilates arc routine. 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 complete instructions, give this free exercise video a gander.
As our parents and grandparents age, they begins to loose balance and coordination. Recognizing when seniors might fall is important to their health and safety. This how to video gives you seven great tips to keep your elderly loved ones from falling. Remember to have adequate lighting, space, handles, and walking aids for your seniors.
As we age we loose our balance and strength. In addition, fifty five percent of falls injuries among older people occur inside the home. With the help of this how to video you can help seniors prevent falls inside their homes. It is important to have the right shoes, good balance, and vision checked to prevent any injuries.
Shopping bags are an ecological nightmare, so many modern shoppers use eco-friendly reusable shopping bags. If you have a stash of eco-friendly bags and want to store them more easily, watch this video to learn a novel way to fold these bags that turns them into a tiny pouch, which you could even still use to hold things if you wanted.
Chair stand exercises are good for seniors to build overall strength and can be done in their own homes. Learn how to do chair stand exercises for seniors in this strength training video. Take action: start out reclined, cross arms, exhale on the sit up, and move slowly. Tom Clifford, the instructor in 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 for two ye...
Triceps extensions for seniors target the triceps muscles of the upper arm to build muscle mass and tone. Learn how to do triceps extension exercises for seniors in this strength training video. Take action: use sturdy chair, keep back straight and abs tight, use light weight, lift elbow and hold in place, lower the weight, extend 7/8 of full potential, and contract triceps. Tom Clifford, the instructor in this how-to video, has a degree in physical education, fitness and health from Eastern ...
With Americans living longer and longer, more and more of them are remaining at home in their old age. Seniors treasure their independence, but some precautions must be taken to ensure that their fragile bodies aren't put under undue stress. Watch this video to learn some ways that you can make a house safer for an elderly person you care about to live in.
This video home and garden tutorial explores the financial advantages of making your home energy efficient. Learn how to make an eco-friendly home that will help save money and the environment.
Who wants to inhale pesticides when you flip burgers in the backyard? When creating an eco-friendly garden, it is fairly easy to avoid.
In this episode of GreenerBusiness, we show you how to make seed-embedded environmental-friendly business cards, as seen on www.rccosmos.org/greencard.
If you recently unearthed your silver from storage hoping to use the pieces to set your holiday table, you may have been a bit disappointed at how tarnished all those spoons and forks look.
Around the holidays we use pretty lights and candles for everything: We hang shiny white lights on our Christmas tree, dangle them outside along our windowsill, and add candles to floral centerpieces.
Biceps curls are standard exercises for building the muscles of the arm. Seniors should not omit them from their workout. Learn how to do bicep curl exercises for seniors in this strength training video. Take action: use sturdy chair, position hands at sides and palms forward, tighten core, focus on biceps, and keep shoulder from rotating. Tom Clifford, the instructor in this how-to video, has a degree in physical education, fitness and health from Eastern Michigan University, where he ran tr...
You don't need to be Michelle Obama to have a house full of jaw-droppingly beautiful Christmas decor. All you need is a little ingenuity and the tips from this Christmas decorating video.
You can make these lovely whimsical charms out of Friendly Plastic - a non toxic plastic that gets soft in hot water or when exposed to heat. You can mold and shape Friendly Plastic using tiny cookie cutters to make fun wine glass charms!
Science investigatory projects suck, or at least seem to at first. But you shouldn't let school drag you down. Instead, use your homework assignment as an opportunity to solve a problem you've always been interested in. And it doesn't hurt if the end result is eco-friendly, either.
As our parents and grandparents age, they begins to loose balance and coordination. Recognizing when seniors might fall is important to their health and safety. This how to video gives you five indicators to look out for in the elderly. Walking aids and vision aids can help seniors from falling.
Before you toss a salad together it's important that any leaves you use are dry and crisp. Usually you'd use a salad spinner to remove the water, but what if you don't have one and you're low on time?
Is it the midnight hour before Thanksgiving and you've suddenly realized you've spent so much time worrying about the food that you have no table decorations? Don't fret; simply check out this video to learn how to prepare simple last-minute centerpieces using a vase, fruit, and candles.
In order to become a good runner you must do more than just, well, run. Good running requires good form, which means that in addition to doing your daily job you must commit to completing drills designed to improve your running form (to reduce injury).
Applies to Senior, U19 and 7's players. This new rugby law was issued in 2007. It is the 2007 Scrum Law and it covers the crouch, touch, pause, engage steps off the classic rugby scrum. Scrums start off every rugby match.
Few Bluetooth users realize that Bluetooth headsets can be hacked or otherwise exploited to a remote attacker the ability to record and inject audio through the headset while the device is not in an active call. SANS Institute author and senior instructor Joshua Wright demonstrates, and explains, the security vulnerability in this how-to. For more information, including step-by-step instructions on how you can replicate this hack yourself, take a look.
Cockroaches are one of the most durable and and irritating forms of life on Earth. Many turn to toxic chemicals to get rid of them, but that's not very green is it? This video will give you some eco-friendly tips for preventing infestations, trapping insects, and disposing of them once you've caught them. Yes, cockroaches are part of nature. No, that doesn't mean we're not going to kill them.
Tennis balls aren't just for playing tennis, so when you are getting ready to trash those tennis balls… DON'T. There are many different uses you can find for them, from donating them to fluffing up laundry. Recycle them using these 7 helpful tips.
Amidst reports of the newspaper industry struggling to survive, it's becoming more and more clear that people are increasingly turning to their smartphones for the news. In fact, a new study by the Pew Research Center has found that 85% of US adults check the news on mobile devices. Surprisingly, seniors constitute a sizable portion of this.
This video shows how you can make your kitchen environmentally friendly. You can save a lot of energy when heating up food by using the microwave
In this video, Eric Rochow from Real World Green gives us a simple green tip to make doing your laundry more environmentally friendly. The tip is: Don't wash your clothes! Well, actually, don't wash them until they are actually dirty. If you're wearing clothes and they're still clean, you don't need to automatically throw them in the laundry bin. It's something to think about. Also, if you wash your clothes too often, it wears out your clothes. So, next time you're wearing some clothes just t...
Eric Rochow of Real World Green gives us advice on making our computers more environmentally friendly. This video first explains that screensavers are not green. Screensavers require a computer to use its processor. Ideally, when you're not using your computer it should be in sleep mode and your monitor should be in sleep mode as well. This saves a lot of energy. Also, at the end of the day, turn off your computer and monitor. Don't let them run all night. An interesting fact from the Departm...
Eric with Real World Green explains how to make your lawn more environmentally friendly. First, let your grass go dormant in the summer and don't water it as much. When you mow your lawn, consider using a push reel mower. A mower with a gas engine pollutes more than modern cars do. If you are going to use a gas engine mower, keep the blades sharp for a more efficient job. Use a mulching mower, because yard waste takes up a lot of space in landfills. Consider tearing up some of your lawn and p...
There are lots of different ways to make windchimes, but three parts are essential; you will need something to hang it with, something to hang it from, and something to make some noise. This how-to video from a Piece of Craft shows an eco-friendly wind chime made from an old sink strainer, old keys, and colored twine. Watch this video crafting tutorial and learn how to make a windchime out of keys, or whatever other recyclable materials you want.
Get tips on how to make your home more eco-friendly, especially if you plan to renovate it.
This Photoshop CS3 for beginners tutorial introduces new Photoshop users to the rectangular marquee tool, the fill command and working with text. You will learn how to create a "senior pic" type graphic using some simple text and basic shapes created with the rectangular marquee tool in Photoshop CS3.
It is senior year and prom season is approaching, but you don't have a date yet. Then its time to ask someone to the prom ASAP. Don’t freak out. Just watch this how-to dating video and follow these simple steps. Before you know it you'll have a date to prom.
With the advent of Web 2.0 sites and tools, building your own small business marketing website has never been easier. This video SEO tutorial demonstrates a WordPress plugin called SEO Friendly Images. Once installed, all the images on your blog are automatically optimized to be gulped up by search engines. For more, and to get started using SEO Friendly Images for yourself, watch this helpful video guide.
Learn how to build an environmentally friendly directional WiFi antenna with this simple video guide. To follow along at home, you'll need the following things: a copper wedge, an N-type connector, some screws, a clamp-on N plug, a pigtail, and a wireless card. You'll also need a drill, screwdriver, and soldering iron. For comprehensive, step-by-step instructions on hacking your own directional WiFi antenna from a tin can, watch this video tutorial.
On Wednesday, in addition to uploading another batch of videos from its L.E.A.P. conference to its YouTube channel, Magic Leap also launched a new video series for developers called Spacebar.
Cioppino originates in Italy, but the dish has recently won great favor in San Francisco, which is where this recipe takes its inspiration from today. Cioppino, a fish stew, is usually made of the catch of the day, including crab, clams, shrimp, squid, mussels, and fish.
Do you play basketball? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to steal the ball on the court with Kansas senior point guard Russell Robinson. To this you, first you need to apply pressure. As you do this you force your opponent to make mistakes and this will give you a window of opportunity to exploit the situation. Keep in mind that you need to maintain defensive principles.
Do you know what part of the world the Leopard Gecko comes from? Does it like its home to be dry, wet, or somewhere in between? Do they like to climb trees and plants? Follow Host Hillary Dupont and ReptilesTV's Senior Herpetologist Ron Dupont as they discuss the environmental and habitat needs of your Leopard Gecko.
In this video, Dr. Brown, a senior art director at Adobe, shows you how to use the auto blend tool in Photoshop CS3. It's amazingly simple and yields great results.
