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The incline bench and the medicine ball are both great tools to use when working on your abs. Learn about ab exercises that include the incline bench and the medicine ball with help from the founder/owner at STRONG Gym in this free video clip.
When choosing a medicine ball you're going to want to keep a few very important things in mind. Choose a medicine ball with help from a nationally–recognized fitness specialist in this free video clip.
You can do cardio with a stability ball in a very specific way. Get tips on how to do cardio with a stability ball with help from a nationally–recognized fitness specialist in this free video clip.
An exercise ball is a great way to improve the general flexibility of your hips. Improve your hip flexibility using an exercise ball with help from a nationally–recognized fitness specialist in this free video clip.
The stability ball allows you to properly complete a wide variety of different Pilates poses. Get examples of Pilates poses on the stability ball with help from the owner of a wellness studio in this free video clip.
There is a very specific technique that you need to use when sitting on a yoga ball. Learn how to sit on a yoga ball with help from a yoga instructor in this free video clip.
Hand balancing exercises strengthen the muscles in both your arm and your core. Learn about hand balancing exercises with help from a certified Pilates instructor in this free video clip.
For most defenses -- at least, most good defenses -- the unit's leading tackler will be a linebacker, one of the three or four players who begin the play standing up 5 to 8 yards from the line of scrimmage. From the initial set of the offensive formation, linebackers start reading keys to determine what kind of play is coming -- run or pass -- and which direction it is headed. There are different reads for each outside linebacker as well as the inside or middle linebackers. You can be a more knowledgeable fan by reading the same keys to…
Shouxing balls, also called Chinese stress balls, were first produced during the Ming dynasty. Shouxing balls are used in traditional Chinese medicine to stimulate acupuncture points on the hand, which in turn stimulates blood flow and energy throughout the body. Rolling shouxing balls in the palm of the hand is also used as a stress reliever, and the characteristic sound they make is meant to ease anxiety.
A detent ball is a device that prevents a moving part from temporarily moving once the ball engages. A dolly is used to move items or equipment that one person cannot lift. The dolly typically possesses two wheels that rotate freely. You can tip the dolly back on the wheels and push or pull a heavy load. Installing a detent ball in one of the legs or wheels of the dolly will temporarily hold the wheels in a fixed position. Detent balls come in assemblies that can fit inside the hub or rim of a dolly.
In football, a fumble can be one of the most heart-stopping plays. A fumble happens when a ball carrier drops the ball or has it knocked away after he has possession. Sometimes, a bad snap or handoff results in a ball that is loose on the field. Players on either team are eligible to recover the fumble and advance it toward the opponent's goal. With so many players diving for the ball, it can be a serious challenge to grab it first and run downfield with it.
The medicine ball is an invaluable tool to have when training for the sport of tennis. Learn about medicine ball training for tennis with help from a director of personal training in this free video clip.
Without a camera stabilizer, the image on a photo could be blurry and skewed due to movement during the image capture. Stabilizers help to keep your image crisp and clear when you're trying to capture a moving object or if you're taking photos without a tripod. There are many different types of such stabilizers, both internal and external.
Decorate your favorite doggie's bone container to personalize it and to add a touch of whimsy. Doggie bone containers can be used to store dog bones, kibble or treats. If you have more than one dog, make them each their own personal containers. This is especially helpful if your dogs are on special diets or have special foods that they eat. You can make your dog a special present that matches your kitchen decor.
Games are an ideal way to keep people active and meeting new friends. When planning games for schoolchildren, kids at a birthday party or neighborhood friends, you can organize non-competitive games with balls that do not label “winners” or “losers.” With a variety of balls and game ideas, you have everything you need to create non-competitive games that will accommodate a wide age range.
Native to Asia, crape myrtles are prized for their brightly colored flowers and dense canopy. Gardeners must dig up these plants to transplant or remove if they are planted in an area that doesn't meet their growing requirements like full sun, well-draining soil and adequate ground moisture. The best time to dig up crape myrtles is anytime in the fall or winter before the ground freezes. If transplanting them to another site in the landscape, take special care when digging up their rootball.
The palmetto is a native of the southeaster United States, with palmately compound fan-shaped leaves that can grow 2 to 4 feet long. Early in the summer, small white flowers form in large branched clusters. In the fall, small dark blue berries appear, remaining on the plant into the winter. Digging up the palmetto to transplant in another area of your yard is possible. Have the planting hole dug and ready before you dig the palmetto out of the ground.
The stock ride height of the Kawasaki KX250F dirt bike is approximately 35 inches from the top of the seat to the ground. This is fine for some, but riders with shorter legs might find the height awkward when attempting to put a foot down in corners. The motorcycle is designed with suspension adjustments that allow you to set the ride height. In most cases, an assistant makes the job easier.
The BlackBerry features a scroll ball which helps you navigate through the various applications installed on the mobile phone. However, you may experience trouble navigating the device if the trackball malfunctions. Fortunately, BlackBerry devices can be navigated using keypad shortcuts. Although using the shortcuts are more complicated than simply scrolling with the scroll ball, with enough practice, you can become proficient in navigating with the scroll ball.
While an indoor atmosphere can be kept pristine, it can also feel sterile and cold. Bring a little of nature's beauty indoors by making a sphere of natural, green moss. Whether decorating a formal dining room sideboard or adding some greenery to a Christmas theme, a green moss sphere is an economical, yet beautiful, craft. Spruce up your space with a beautiful bit of green moss.
Dryer balls are small, round pieces of nubby plastic designed to reduce drying time, remove wrinkles, soften fibers and fluff fabrics in a clothes dryer. Available in most department stores, these energy-saving gizmos offer up a seemingly affordable, renewable alternative to dryer sheets and fabric softeners. However, even with their growing popularity, consumers remain skeptical. For many, the question remains if they actually work. The answer is apparently a matter of opinion.
A Gertie ball is textured ball that has a slightly tacky or sticky feel to the surface. Some Gertie balls have a knobby surface and are especially easy for young children or those with special physical needs to grasp and play with. This ball is useful for normal fine and gross motor skill development and sensory experiences. The Gertie ball can be inflated to a desired fullness and size and deflated for travel.
The skew chisel is a woodworking tool used to shape wood on a lathe. Even experienced woodworkers can be intimidated by the skew chisel. However, when used properly, this unique lathe tool can create incredibly delicate ball details. The trick to using your skew chisel is approaching your workpiece at the correct angle to avoid creating a snag and ruining your work.
Mosaic art can be an elegant addition to the inside or outside of any home. One way to create a mosaic masterpiece is to make a mosaic garden ball. Although these balls are meant to sit on a stand among your garden flowers, you can easily place them on a fireplace mantel. You can even make the mosaic ball a centerpiece for your dining room table.
Soccer requires that you lock your foot when you strike the ball with the intent of kicking it up field or scoring a goal. Locking the foot creates a flat surface, much like a golf club. This allows you to exert maximum force on the ball. Learning how to do this properly will make you a better player; not learning to do so properly before striking the ball could lead to you damaging your ankle.
For children, the solar system is a mysterious place, filled with strange planets and covered with a blanket of seemingly endless stars. Kids cannot visit outer space, but with some colorfully painted foam balls, you can help them create a model solar system that puts each planet in perspective. Foam balls of various sizes let children see the planet's color and size differences, as well as the approximate distance from the Sun.
The longboard offers riders a more relaxed, cruising style than the shorter, traditional skateboard. This is ideal if your interest in board riding comes from the appeal of controlling the board at speed rather than pursuing a more aggressive style involving tricks and jumps. One of the fundamental skills for the longboarder is carving, that is, weaving from left to right in order to control speed on downhill sections.
Longboard skateboards are ideally suited for individuals looking to ride their board more than perform tricks in a park. Although best suited for cruising, a longboard is not without the ability to perform eye-pleasing maneuvers. The backside slide is a longboard trick during which a rider quickly spins the tail of the board around 180-degrees to become the new front side. When mastered, the backside slide is both a quick way to change stance and a trick to impress your friends with.
Checking taper with a ball or a marble is a method used by technicians in the automotive collision industry to determine whether the panel gaps on the trunk lid and hood of the car are aligned correctly with their adjacent panels. If the alignment is correct, the marble will remain in the gap, rolling smoothly until it is caught at the bottom of the panel. If the marble rolls off of the gap, then the hood or trunk panels must be adjusted to fit correctly.
A lathe ball cutter is a tool that is used on a manual lathe to create a ball shape, such as a door knob. The lathe cutter is the only accurate way to make a ball because it is difficult to move along the X and Z axis of a manual lathe with the precision needed to make a ball. A computer numerical control (CNC) lathe is able to make a ball shape due to its overall accuracy and lack of error.
Each electronic device in your home is designed to operate using a certain voltage level. A voltage fluctuation in the main electric line can damage those devices, but a voltage stabilizer can prevent irreversible damage. A voltage stabilizer protects television sets, computers, refrigerators and air conditioners because it is designed to maintain a stable voltage level. It ensures the voltage supplied from the main electric line is equivalent to the energy required to operate all your electronic devices. Voltage regulators vary depending on their working mechanism, internal design, appliances for which they are designed and capacity.
You can make small dragon sculptures from polymer clay. Polymer clay is a craft clay that comes in a variety of colors. You can mold and sculpt the clay into dragon ornaments, figurines or statues. Bake your dragon sculpture in the oven to cure it to a hard finish for decorating. Make your dragon out of all one color or use different colors for an eye-catching dragon design.
In "Pokémon HeartGold," a mystical rainbow bird named Ho-oh flies across the sky of the Johto and Kanto regions. Rumors speak of the scared Clear Bell, an item that, when used, summons Ho-oh. The Kimono Girls in Ecruteak City keep the Clear Bell safe from harm. They will only give the Clear Bell to an opponent who has the skill to beat them in a battle. Each Kimono Girl owns a different version of Eevee. Defeat each one, and the Clear Bell is yours.
You make a perfect sphere every time you or your child blows a bubble. But with patience and a gentle touch, you can also make something that will last a little longer. Through a simple process that will take just a few days, you can use quick-setting concrete and a plastic, blow-up exercise ball to craft a perfect sphere suitable for placement in your home garden. It's easier than you might think.
Fitting a Homebase Bottom Entry Quiet Ball Valve into a toilet tank is needed when the old ball valve wears out in order to keep the toilet working properly. The ball valve is designed to shut the water supply off inside the tank when it reaches the correct water level. The Homebase Quiet ball valve is very similar to most other ball valves with the water running into the toilet tank from the bottom of the tank.
The smell of mothballs is a distinctive smell that adults may remember from childhood as they hid in trunks and wardrobes. People place mothballs in drawers of clothing to kill the moths that attempt to chew holes through the clothes. Gardeners use mothballs to repel pests from destroying plants. However, studies conclude that overexposure to mothballs is harmful to people, animals and the environment.
Chair leg protectors help prevent scuffs on hardwood, tile and other floors. They are also useful in reducing the squeaky noises that occur when you scoot a chair on this type of flooring. Some chair leg protectors are expensive; the cost adds up when you need to use them to protect many chairs. Make your own chair leg protectors by cutting tennis balls in half. This is also an effective way to recycle worn out tennis balls.
Osage hedge balls, the fruit that grows on the Osage-orange tree, are also commonly referred to as hedge apples due to their similarity in size to an apple and the fact that the tree is commonly utilized as a hedge specimen. Aside from ornamental purposes, the fruit has few uses.
Many Sigma camera lenses do have a built-in image-stabilization system. Sigma calls the option the "optical stabilizer function." This function suppresses lens vibration caused by an unsteady hand or environmental factors such as wind. As of August 2011, the Sigma website listed 12 lenses available built with the OS technology. All but one, the 150 mm macro lens, are zoom lenses.
A slab-built teapot is one method potters use when making clay items. A four-sided pyramid shape is one of the simplest to make when using the slab method. The four sides provide adequate room for the water chamber, and the top of the pyramid is used for the lid to the teapot. Other shapes are possible once you have the basic knowledge to construct a four-sided pyramid shape. Allow up to four hours to complete the building process.
An exercise ball can be a great way to fit a few crunches into your normal workout. Do crunches on an exercise ball with help from a long time personal trainer in this free video clip.
Home embroidery, both by hand and by machine, often requires the use of stabilizers beneath the fabric. Especially useful when you wish to embroider on lightweight fabrics that need extra stability, stabilizers help you create the embroidered designs you desire. Although you can remove some stabilizer fabrics simply by tearing them off the back of the fabric, other washable stabilizers dissolve off the fabric with water.
A broken scroll ball doesn't have to mean it's time to throw your computer away. Most computer programs recognize "hot keys" that can duplicate the function of the scroll ball, better known as a trackball. Early computers did not support mouse technology and users had to rely strictly on the keyboard to navigate. Many of the buttons that early computer users pressed to scroll up and down are still available in contemporary software programs.
Occasionally, people who tow trailers find that for no reason other than the height of the tow ball on their trailer hitch, they are towing their trailer with a slightly nose-down attitude. Some who do not any know better may go as far as buying a hitch with different configuration or even try a weight-distributing hitch to correct a small problem. If the trailer is riding only a bit low and it is not because of the tongue weight, the solution may be to use a few flat washers to raise the height of the tow ball.
BOSU, which is an acronym for "both sides utilized," is part balance board, part stability ball and part plyo box. It looks like a stability ball cut in half. The BOSU is unique because you can use it on either side. Place the flat side down to train on the soft balance disc or flip it over and train on the flat surface, which is unstable because of the air disc that supports it.
The BOSU balance trainer contains a dome and a platform. The dome of the BOSU resembles half of an exercise stability ball and is inflated prior to use. You use the balance trainer dome side or platform side up for a variety of upper body, lower body and core exercises. A BOSU is also used for cardiovascular exercise when you perform movements similar to those performed on an aerobic step. This versatile tool is portable for use at home, work or the gym. Proper inflation will provide you the best workout, keep you safe and protect your equipment.
All mass-produced boat manufacturers must engineer their vessels and add floatation material such as polystyrene foam that will keep the boat from sinking if it gets swamped. Boat owners need to remove a portion of the foam when customizing the craft to their personal needs. Mice or other rodents can get in a stored boat and chew up the floatation foam. Other problems can occur, necessitating the addition of floatation material to ensure that the vessel remains safe to use. Boat manufacturers use products specifically engineered for marine purposes, but you have other options.
In basketball, a layup, in which you bounce the ball off the backboard into the net, is one of the most fundamental and effective ways to score. The finger roll is a modified version of the layup, though the backboard is not used in this type of shot. It requires more athleticism than a layup because you have to leap off your feet and extend your arms above your defender to properly execute the shot. Performed effectively, it adds a shot to your arsenal that is hard to block.
The Bosu balance trainer, manufactured by Bosu, is a soft and inflated rubber stability dome mounted on a plastic platform. When laid flat on its platform side, the half-rubber dome portion gives exercisers a workout by continually working on their balance and coordination. Bosu balance trainers are used in many different types of exercises, from yoga and Pilates to aerobics and general fitness routines. There are certain steps you can take if you want to make your own Bosu-style trainer.
Body lifting is an important part of training for many sporting activities such as football, body building, wrestling, boxing, hockey, basketball and power lifting. Lifting weights not only helps you improve the physical condition of your body, it also provides health benefits such as reducing the risks associated with certain diseases, offering protection against injury and reducing fat gain. Each of these benefits could contribute to your overall health and fitness.
