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Bellydance Fitness:Pure Sweat

Rated: Unrated | Format: VHS Tape
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

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Pure Sweat is a cutting edge, high energy aerobic workout that combines bellydance moves with hot Salsa, Rhumba and Samba dance rhythms. You will learn to move, gyrate, shake and twist all while getting a weight reducing, calorie burning, aerobic workout. The music cleverly combines uplifting Latin American sounds with hip shaking Middle Eastern percussion. The music is hot and your feet won’t stop. It’s Pure Sweat, all the way through!

Join certified aerobics instructor, Rania, a multi-award winning dancer, in this unique weight loss series. Rania’s bellydance skill is truly remarkable and her dancing is beauty in motion. Rania has combined her vast dance background, her extensive aerobics training and her award winning bellydancing flair into this fun filled dance workout.

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LOVE IT despite the flaws April 9 2004
By A Customer
Format:DVD
While I agree with some of the complaints in the other ratings (Rania's space cadet expression, elevator-style music, not true bellydance instruction), I still LOVE this DVD - so much so that I just bought the other three workouts. What's great about it...

* No props or equipment needed, not even shoes
* A 25-minute cardio workout (with warm-up and stretching) that actually gets you sweating
* The women who accompany Rania represent a a nice range of ages and body types - it's good to see women bellydancing without perfectly flat abs or stick-like thighs
* No need to be coordinated. Rania starts slowly and repeats the movements until they build into a "dance" routine.
* Excellent voice-over. She may be a space cadet, but she has a clear, calm speaking voice and doesn't sound like a wind-up doll. She also counts and speaks just enough to get you going - she doesn't blab throughout the workout.
* Bonus 10-minute ab workout is extremely challenging (not necessarily for beginners or people with lower back troubles), but seeing Rania's rock-hard abs is inspiration enough for me.

I've purchased and tried so many exercise videos, and this is the first that I really enjoy and look forward to doing. It's great to find something that feels effective, but doesn't punish my body as so many workouts do. I think that's the trick to actually working out, i.e., having so much fun that you WANT to do it. Best of all, and this may sound corny, but I feel feminine bellydancing, even though I do it in a gawky, goofy-looking way. All of these positives outweigh the negatives of this DVD for me.

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"Pure Sweat," puh-leeze Jan 22 2004
By Lynn
Format:VHS Tape
Not only did I not sweat, but my heart beat didn't really raise any. I will grant that I work out a lot.

This is probably a good workout if you're really out of shape. A total beginner might get a workout, but if your already work out regularly, keep your money and invest elsewhere. (The Cardio Shimmy from the same series is actually pretty good.)

Also, the music is indescribably awful.

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Plastic and Stuffy. Nov 19 2003
By A Customer
Format:DVD
That's the feeling I get from watching this video!! The instructor is so stiff and looks like she is trying so hard to look pretty, happy and to actually do the moves properly that it just makes you feel tense watching it. I just didn't feel like these were traditional belly dancers. I feel like this was someone that is fit, and is just sort of going through the motions of the moves!! The Veena and Neena videos are so much better because they are more relaxed and really look like they know what they are doing.
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Most recent customer reviews
loved it
I bought this video because Essence Magazine rated it as being in the top four workout videos of the year, and I was not disappointed. Read more
Published on Nov 2 2003
Just Awful!
I cannot believe that I actually spent money for this video. The music is terrible, boring and the moves are pathetic. Read more
Published on Oct 1 2003
four stars
I did enjoy this workout, and the performances, but I did not give it five stars because the music was to 'elevator' sounding. Read more
Published on May 19 2003
Not Quite What You'd Expected...
Ok, I've been a dancer (although not a belly dancer) most of my life and a certified fitness instructor since 1988, and I've never seen any anyone simply go through the motions... Read more
Published on May 1 2003
Accessible and understandable for Aerobic Dance fans
With well-chosen Latin music and a fast-tempo'd pace guaranteed to satisfy the aerobic-dance crowd, this is the most accessible entry in Rania's Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss... Read more
Published on April 18 2003 by Shelley Ashfield
Accessible and understandable for Aerobic Dance fans
With well-chosen Latin music and a fast-tempo'd pace guaranteed to satisfy the aerobic-dance crowd, this is the most accessible entry in Rania's Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss... Read more
Published on April 18 2003 by Shelley Ashfield
love the dancing and learned alot
I really enjoyed this dvd. I got the set of four and liked every one of them. What I liked best about this one was the variety of movements and combinations, and that they were all... Read more
Published on Feb 18 2003
top quality workout and dancing
I am half Lebanese and have been bellydancing all my life. I am fully aware what great health benefits it has (I have 3 kids and it does not show). Read more
Published on Dec 31 2002 by Etaif Gamil
fun workout
I enjoyed this video very much, so did my daughter. It was easy to follow and before I realised it, I was doing belly dance routines. Read more
Published on Dec 28 2002
Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss: Pure Sweat
I really enjoyed working out to this video. Rania is great - very graceful, full of energy and enthusiasm, she is very mesmerizing, just a very talented dancer. Read more
Published on Dec 13 2002 by Diana A. Korte
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