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Bellydance Fitness For Weight Loss: Daily Quickies... 5 Ten Minute Workouts
 
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Bellydance Fitness For Weight Loss: Daily Quickies... 5 Ten Minute Workouts

Starring: Rania Bossonis Director: David Nakahara
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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In just 10 minutes a day, five days a week, you can stretch, strengthen, and tone every muscle in your body. Join Rania Bossonis, AFAA Certified Fitness Instructor and world famous Dancer/Teacher, for these effective and innovative 10 minute workouts. These workouts combine traditional strengthening exercises with Yoga, Ballet/Modern Dance and Bellydance exercises for an interesting, fun and highly effective workout series. Abs Only: Combines isolation exercises from Bellydance with Ab exercises for every muscle in the Abdominal Region. This workout will strengthen and tone the Abdominals while also teaching control of the muscles . Features Crunches, Oblique Exercises, Lower Abdominal work, Standing Abdominal Bellydance Isolations, Belly Rolls, and an Abdominal Stretch. Arms, Back and Chest: This workout effectively works opposing muscle groups in the arms, back and chest for strengthening, toning, and fat burning in the upper body. Handweights can be added to this routine to maximize the training benefit. Includes exercises such as 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. Dancer's Legs and Butt: Combines leg exercises used in Modern/Ballet Dance, Traditional Fitness and Bellydance for a great workout that strengthens, burns fat, and sculpts the entire leg and buttock area . Includes Plies, Bellydance Pelvic Camels, One-Legged Lunges with leg extensions, inner and outer thigh exercises, and floor exercises for Hamstrings and the Gluteal region. Waist Sculpting: Traditional Abdominal workouts just don't do enough for the waist. This innovative workout combines a series of Bellydance Figure-8 moves, Rib Slides, and Twists, designed to refine, strengthen, sculpt, and burn fat around the troublesome waist area. These isolation exercises are also great for improving coordination and posture, and releasing tension that may be stored in the midsection. Flexibility Training: This workout features a combination of Bellydance, Yoga, Ballet/Modern Dance moves, exercises and stretches to increase flexibility, release tension, improve posture, coordination and balance.


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2.0 out of 5 stars Not "NEW' and not "BELLYDANCE", May 9 2004
By L. Hawkins "Laura Wilde" (USA) - See all my reviews
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The idea of 10 minute bellydance "quickies" sounded like a great and original idea for a bellydance girl on-the-go. Unfortunately the material on this DVD isn't anything new nor is is bellydance!

If you already own any of the videos form Rania's "Bellydance for Fitness and Weight Loss" Series: Bellydance Boogie, Hip Drop Hip Hop, Cardio Shimmy, or Pure Sweat, or Veena and Neena's Bellydance "Slim Down" video then you will recognise these workouts (really just 10 minute long guided stretches) from the bonus sections of these DVDs. They've taken all five of them and put them on this one DVD.

Importat notes:
1. These are not "NEW" workouts. (Note to Rania and Natural Journeys) Please don't repackage old material and call it "NEW" just to pad your own wallet. This is insulting to the consumer and a waste of my money.

2. As a fitness professional, I can tell you that thse are not "workouts" for weight loss as claimed but merely ten-minute guided stretches. Stating that these workouts will help you loose weight is a gross overstatement. The body does not even BEGIN to burn fat until after more than 20 minutes of cardiovascular exertion. (Sitting on the couch burns next to zero calories so this workout would still be better than nothing.) :o)

3. This is't bellydance!!! Let me say this again, this isn't bellydance!!! It's stretching and strengthening exercises that will help put your muscles into the condition required to bellydance better, but don't buy this video looking for bellydance instruction or workout!

4. If you own any other fitness videos, I'm sure you've noticed that nearly all of them remind you to do at least twently minutes of warmup and stretching before beginning their workout. Now THAT's a reason to own this DVD. Just pop this puppy in first and you're on your way!

5. These are excellent guided stretches! You won't learn or practice any bellydance but if you use this video in combination with other fitness videos or as an addition to an existing fitness routine, it's great.

6. Current fitness research says that if you only have ten minutes to workout, that's OK. You can do three ten minute workouts in one day and get close to the same benefit as one thirty minute workout. Thirty-plus minutes is still better than three ten-minute sessions but 3 ten-minute sessions is still better than nothing! Try to fit more than one of these into your day for better results.

0 stars for remarketing old stuff as new.
4 stars because this could still be used conjunction with other videos.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Really good, Feb 25 2004
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This is, make no mistake, NOT for beginners to exercise: it is pretty challenging. It is fun to be able to do either one segment or put more together for a fuller workout; if you do all five secions, it really is a good strength and flex day. The reason I didn't give it five stars was the lack of safety advice; in the back stretches, for example, you could really damage yourself if you didn't have some Pilates or yoga knowlege, and I thought the final flex section was dangerously under-explained. Okay for me, I take Pilates, but not so great for everyone. What wasn't so good for me (and the other reason it lost a star) was the waist section: this is the only part where belly dance experience, even a little, would help (I have none, and boy does it show: I imagine I look like an embarrasssing aunt trying to dance at a wedding) but what would help more is if the camera let you see the legs and feet when we are being told what to do with them! There is one move, repeated for ages, where you NEVER see this. But otherwise, this DVD is terrific and you will definitely feel it the next day. Oh, and the arms section contains one of the best tricep reps I've seen; my advice for this section is to use light weights with it - I use 1kg (I'm English) which is about 2.2 pounds I think, and that is half what I use for my usual arm work, but is plenty for this. Enjoy!
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3.0 out of 5 stars NOT NEW WORKOUTS, ALREADY DONE ON HER OTHER DVDs !, Jan 22 2004
By M. Simpson "Fit Lissa" (Peoria, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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I'm rating this 3 stars not because of the quality of the workouts, but because of the originality in the issuing of this DVD.

If you already own Rania's other DVDs (Bellydance Boogie, Bellydance Hip Drop Hip Hop, Bellydance Pure Sweat, Bellydance Cardio Shimmy) and you also own one of Veena and Neena's Discover Bellydance DVDs (editing because I previously stated that I didn't remember which DVD had the flexibility workout. I just found it, its on the Veena & Neena Bellydance Slim Down DVD) ... then you already own all of the workouts on this DVD. These workouts were bonus workouts included on other DVDs.

All this is is a compilation of those bonus workouts put onto one DVD. They couldn't come up with anything original, so to make money, they decided to put them on one DVD and call it NEW. PUH-LLLLEASE.

If you like having the compilation aspect just for the ease of it, this is a good buy. If you already own the other Bellydance DVDs I mentioned, and you were thinking this was something new, save your money.

The workouts themselves aren't bad, but they aren't new. Just an FYI.

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