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5.0 out of 5 stars
10 Minute Quickies or 50 Minute Intense Full-Body Workout, Jan 21 2004
This workout does not include any bellydance routines. It is a workout to help you strengthen and stretch every muscle in your body. Not only did I workout harder than I have in any workout I've tried recently, this took my body to new and undiscovered areas of fitness. Rania Bossonis is an AFAA Certified Fitness Instructor and world famous Bellydancer. These workouts combine traditional strengthening exercises with moves and poses from Modern Dance, Yoga, Ballet and Bellydance. You are moving at a fast pace throughout the workouts and you will feel the "burn" and feel the effects and the day-after-I-worked-out-really-hard feeling. This is a good workout to do if you are about to give yourself a day off or you can just do the 10 minutes after walking for 30 minutes to give yourself 40 minutes. I'm finding that 70-80 minutes of exercise 3-4X a week is the way to go if you want to start to see the inches drop. You can really use this workout in a variety of ways. The most challenging way to start this workout is to go through all 5 sections in about 60 minutes. Day 1 - Abs Only
This section is a combination of isolation exercises that will take your abdominal muscles to new and rather interesting places. This section features: crunches, oblique exercises, lower abdominal work, standing abdominal bellydance isolation, belly rolls and an abdominal stretch. Day 2- Arms, Back and Chest
After doing this workout, I went out and bought some tiny little 1 pound weights to do during the second workout. The workout is intense enough by itself, but in a few weeks, I can add the weights for advanced training benefits. You will recognize moves like: Lateral Pull Downs, Upright Rows, Shoulder Presses, Biceps Flexion, Push-ups, and Prone Hyperextensions, combined with Bellydance Isometric exercises such as Chest Raises and Drops, Snake Arms, Shoulder Rolls, and Shoulder Shimmies. Day 3 - Dancer's Legs and Butt
Rania teaches moves she learned in Modern Dance training. You will enjoy doing plies, bellydance pelvic camels, one-legged lunges with leg extensions, inner and outer thigh exercises. The floor exercises put an emphasis on the hamstrings and gluteal region. Day 4 - Waist Sculpting
This goes beyond traditional abdominal workouts. We are talking about Figure-8 bellydance moves and rib slides. You start to feel a bit like a bellydancer in this segment. The isolations exercises encourage coordination and posture. Day 5 - Flexibility Training
A combination of Bellydance, Yoga, Ballet/Modern Dance and stretches. This is an amazing workout that will test your endurance and give you creative coordination challenges. I love the full-body workout when you complete all the exercises in about 60 minutes. Very Impressed. ~TheRebeccaReview.com
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