Bellydance Fitness:Pure Sweat: Amazon.ca: Rania Bossonis, n/a: DVD

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Video Details

Pure Sweat is a cutting edge, high energy aerobic workout that combines bellydance moves with hot Salsa, Rumba, 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 hip shaking Middle Eastern percussion. The music is hot and your feet won’t stop. It’s Pure Sweat, all the way through!

Special Features:

- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- Interactive Full Moon Menus
- Chapter Selections
- Bonus 10 Minute Workout
- New Photo Gallery

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3.7 out of 5 stars (17 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE IT despite the flaws, April 9 2004

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This review is from: Bellydance Fitness:Pure Sweat (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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2.0 out of 5 stars "Pure Sweat," puh-leeze, Jan 22 2004

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This review is from: Bellydance Fitness:Pure Sweat (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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2.0 out of 5 stars Plastic and Stuffy., Nov 19 2003

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars 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

1.0 out of 5 stars 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