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How To: Do weighted squats to strengthen legs

Squats are a weight training exercise that involves lowering the body and raising it again, targeting the legs and core. Learn how to do squat exercises in this strength training video. Take action: keep back straight & flexed, keep knees over heels, stick butt out to maintain safe posture, and look forward. 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 w...

How To: Clean planer posts

Shopsmith Academy shows you how to quickly clean the sawdust from the threaded planer posts when it sticks as you are raising or lowering the table. Apply this lesson to your next woodworking project. For more on woodworking projects, search Shopsmith Academy on WonderHowTo for more woodworking videos.

How To: Practice high breathing for yoga

High breathing in yoga refers to a style of breathing that takes place in the upper part of the chest and lungs. Learn how to do high breathing by raising the ribs in this exercise video. To practice high breathing you should take seated position, place hand on chest, inhale & exhale using only top of chest. With this how to video you will be able to do high breathing for yoga.

How To: Bake a coconut fruit cake

Make a delicious light fruit cake with cook Sophie Grigson. You will need desiccated coconut, candied mixed peel, lemon zest, orange rind, milk, sweet sherry, butter, caster sugar, eggs, self-raising flour, cherries, and sultanas. Watch this video baking tutorial and learn how to make a delicious coconut fruit cake.

How To: Make a steak and kidney pudding

Make a great British classic with Sophie Grigson; the steak and kidney pudding makes for wonderful winter eating. You will need self-raising flour, salt, suet, beef steak, kidney, plain flour, mustard powder, onions, parsley, salt, and black pepper. Watch this video cooking tutorial and learn how to make a steak and kidney pudding.

How To: Determine your VO2 maximum

Backpacker magazine associate editors Jason Stevenson and Shannon Davis demonstrate how to estimate your VO2 Max in this April 2007 SkillsCast. Find out how a simple running test can determine your VO2 Max, and why raising your score can make you a better backpacker, increase your endurance and fitness level.

How To: Do a tricep pushup to lose belly fat

Anne Knowler Fitness demonstrates how to banish belly fat with a triceps pushup home workout. First, position yourself in a pushup position with your elbows in tight to your ribs. Then, lower yourself down, letting your chest and nose reach the ground. Keep the shoulders out in front of the hands. In this workout, the triceps are doing all of the work. Keep a perfect plank when doing the pushup. Return to the pushup position to do the obliques by raising your hands to the ceiling in a windmil...

How to Walkthrough Darksiders: Twilight Cathedral

Prepare yourself for the Xbox 360 game Darksiders. On the Twilight Cathedral level, there's the Main Floor, Catacombs, Raising Columns Chamber, Rotating Bridge Room, The Jailer, Tiamat, and the Revisit of Scalding Gallow. Outside the cathedral, open the Soul Chest on the right then visit Vulgrim who's to the right of the entrance. Stock up on abilities of your choosing and then make your way into the Twilight Cathedral. For more info, watch the whole gameplay.

How To: Strengthen buns, abs, & thighs with Tara Stiles yoga

In this video, we learn how to strengthen buns, abs, & thighs with Tara Stiles yoga. First, stretch out your body on a yoga mat, then come into a downward dog position, raising your back legs in the air. After this, come into a warrior pose, except have both of your hands straight in the air while bending the knees. From here, come into the normal warrior pose, then stretch out both sides of the body by lifting opposite hands up in the air. Next, stretch out your legs as wide as they will go,...

How To: Do a front walkover

In this tutorial, we learn how to do a front walkover. Before you do this, you should be able to do a handstand. Start off by placing your right foot in front of you, then pushing off and raising your other leg up into the air. Your feet should be apart in the air, then you will do a headstand for a few seconds. On your way down, your hands should follow to continue to do this movement, walking out in front of you. Make sure you have goo back flexibility to do this, or else you won't be able ...

How To: Understand exponents

To understand how exponents work, you will need to think of simplification. There are ways to simplify equations, and using exponents is one of those ways. 3 x 3 x 3 can be simplified by raising the number 3 to the third power.

How To: Do interval cardio training

In this tutorial, we learn how to do interval cardio training. Start off on the treadmill going at a pace that is easy for you. Increase the intensity of the treadmill every two minutes. After two more minutes go back to normal. Continue doing this raising your intensity each time you start a new two minutes. You can increase it by doing a higher speed, higher incline, or anything else. When you feel like you can't do anymore, log what speed or intensity you were at. Continue to do this exerc...

How To: Master an 8 count in hip hop dance

In this tutorial, we learn how to master an 8 count hip hop dance with Josh. Make sure you do this in a large room so you aren't running into things as you dance around the room. Start off with your feet straight and bend your knees. Your arms should come up loosely into fists, then drop your right knee in. Your right arm should drop with the knee and then turn to do a half a turn, raising your arms in the air. Count "1,2,3,4" as you are doing each different step, and practice this until you ...

How To: Do a yoga handstand with variations for beginners

In this tutorial, Dina Prioste shows us how to do deep handstands. You will need a yoga strap and a wall to do this. Start off by getting on all fours and then gently raising your legs onto the wall one at a time. Raise one leg directly up from the wall and then raise the other to make an "L" shape with your legs. If you have trouble doing this, grab a yoga strap and secure it around your triceps. Now, face towards the wall and practice kicking up until your legs are raised against the wall. ...

How To: Do a yoga dancer's pose with and without a yoga strap

In this tutorial, Dina Prioste shows us how to do a yoga dancers pose. Start standing with your weight on your left leg. Now, bend your right leg and grab it behind you. Now, lift your left arm up and keep raising your right leg. Open up into your back bend and lean forward. As you lean forward, you will create balance on your left leg, so focus on a spot that is in front of you. If you can't reach your foot behind your body, use a yoga strap or belt to help you reach. Doing this will help in...

How To: Do a yoga boat pose with a twist for power

In this tutorial, Dina Prioste shows us how to do a yoga boat pose with a twist for power. First, begin in a boat pose raising your legs up and facing forward. Interlace your hands together and inhale. Exhale and twist to the left and right side while pushing your legs forward and back. Next, place your hands on the floor and fall into a reverse tabletop position. Inhale and exhale several times in this position, then return to the boat twists and do quicker for twelve times each side. Rememb...

How To: Do a yoga revolved side angle pose

In this tutorial, we learn how to do a yoga revolved side angle pose with Dina Prioste. First, come to a low lung with your right leg forward. Put your hips down so your left thigh gets closer to the floor. Deep inhale and exhale while twisting to the right. You can stay upright or lean down with your elbow on your knee. Keep breathing deeply and find your center while concentrating and relaxing. You can come to a full lunge if you are confident in your strength, or stay in the pose you are i...

How To: Draw a Halloween cat

We are shown how to draw a Halloween cat in a several easy steps. First A large circle is drawn. Then in the middle a cat is drawn with an arching back, tail held high. After the cat is completed the background around the cat is filled in with black, giving a silhouette illusion. After the background is completed in black, small details are drawn in white. The fur of the cat, whiskers on the face, hair raising on the arched back and even a gleam in the cat's eye. After this the drawing is com...

How To: Use a head cover golf drill to cure pull shots

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to prevent a pull shot in golf, using the right elbow. A common problem for a pull shot is the back swing. When raising their arm for a swing, some people tend to disconnect their right arm away from their body and getting their hands too high. Then as they down swing, their arm takes too long to reconnect to the body and are outside the target line. The right elbow should stay in front of and pointing to the right hip. It should only hinge on the bac...

How To: Make cupcakes with simple ingredients

In this video tutorial, viewers will learn how to make cupcakes. The ingredients required to make these cupcakes are 60 grams of butter, 1/4 cup of sugar, 1 egg, vanilla essences, 3 tbsp of milk, 1 cup of self-raising flour and cupcake liners. Begin by putting the cupcake liners in a tray and spray it with cooking spray. Preheat the oven at 200 degrees. Mix the butter and sugar. Then add the egg and vanilla essences. Add the flour and milk alternatively. Put them in the oven for 12-15 minutes...

How To: Simplify expressions with different exponents

This video shows the method to simplify expressions with different exponents. The video starts with the explanation of 16 raised to the power 1/4. This can be solved by taking the nth or the 4th root of 16 where n stands for the denominator of the fraction. Then the video explains 8 raised to power 4/3. This can be solved in two ways. First one involves taking the cube root of 8 and raising it to the power of 4. The second method involves converting 8 into 2 raised to the power 3 and taking t...

How To: Solve logarithmic equations

In this video the instructor shows how to solve logarithmic equations. To solve a logarithmic equation, the first thing you have to do is try to get one logarithmic term if possible. To subtract two logarithmic terms use the formula Log (a) – Log (b) = Log (a/b). Now to get rid of logs, perform exponentiation of the base. Exponentiation of the base is raising a number to the power of the logarithmic term where the number is the base of the logarithmic term. Here the value turns out to be the ...

How To: Make quick & easy chocolate brownies

This video shows you a delicious recipe and how to make quick and easy brownies, with an Australian twist. This is an old fashioned favorite, perfect for a school bake sale, or just something sweet to impress the family. Also a great way to bound with the family by getting them involved.

How To: Moonwalk better

Check out this dance video that demonstrates how to moonwalk. Learn this classic move made famous by Michael Jackson and practice your moonwalking skills with this video. The first step is the flat foot sliding back, and the foot on tippie toes slowly lowers and flattens. The second step is simply raising the foot that slid back on the tips of its toes. Soon you'll be moonwalking like a pro. Practice, practice, practice!

How To: Make sour creamed scones

Looking for a new way to jazz up your traditional scone recipe? This video might have the solution you've been looking for. The addition of sour cream is sure to mix things up and add a new twist to your baking adventures.

How To: Make chocolate cupcakes

First, the lady in the video says just how great this recipe is and just how easy it is to make. She then begins to show us. In one large sauce pan add 125 grams of butter. She says that it's important to preheat the oven before you start your baking. She preheats the oven to gas mark four. Slowly heat the butter and when it is nearly melted, add in one hundred grams of dark chocolate. Turn the heat off and let it melt. Next, you just add the rest of the ingredients, starting with three hundr...

How To: Look younger with facial exercises

In this video from Sigsac from Happy Face Yoga, we learn how to look younger with facial exercises. This demonstrates the cheek lifter. This exercise will strengthen the muscles of the cheek. Smile, open mouth and form an O. Fold upper lip over teeth, smile again to lift cheek muscles up. Place index fingers on the top part of cheek, directly under eyes. Relax cheek muscles to return to original position. Smile again to lift the cheek muscles back up. Do this 10 times. In the next exercise he...

How To: Heal a sprained ankle

Looking to heal your sprained ankle and not sure what to do? Don't panic. A sprained ankle can be quite painful, as well as prevent you from getting where you need to go. You can heal more quickly with proper care.