Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss featuring Rania: Daily Quickies... 5 Ten Minute Workouts | 
 enlarge | Actor: Rania Bossonis
Studio: Goldhil Home Media
Category: Video
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 48011
Format: Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 50 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
UPC: 743452078639
EAN: 0743452078639
ASIN: B00009RXL4
Release Date: June 17, 2003
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Description
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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 Desired a different focus February 15, 2004
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As a physical therapist, I am familiar with the types of exercises that will challenge the various parts of the body. This video certainly is challenging to many muscle groups. However, I think that she has done a poor job in a couple of areas. 1.) Not enough focus on firing of the deep abdominals to set the back before various exercises. In my experience many people need several verbal cues to correctly fire these muscles and protect their backs when doing exercises like these. Also too much focus on the rectus (vertical) abs and I doubt most people could maintain their neutral supported spine at the speed she does the lower ab workout. Quality is key before speed. 2.) Poor cueing for lower extremity protection during single leg squatting and balance exercises 3.) Video is really best done in one setting, breaking it up into the 10 minute segments is not optimal as she doesn't have the opportunity to adequeately warm up and cool down. 4.) And lastly -on more general terms - if you were looking for a lot of belly dancing moves this is not the video for you. This was the bummer for me. I would also recommend that Rania review the use of important verbal cueing to help fire the transverse abdominals to ensure back protection as is done in many core stability programs. I would not recommend this to most of my patients as it is for much more advanced fitness seekers and lacks the proper cueing for optimal performance. If you have excellent command of your core and posture, go for it - it will certainly burn your muscles.
 awesome workouts and concept... June 22, 2003
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
...but the title is sort of deceiving because these are not bellydancing workouts, they are just plain good workouts that kicked my butt, but no dancing. I knew Rania is a famous dancer, but until this video I did not realise her fitness instructor abilities apart from dancing. After I bought it and brought it home and read the box copy, I started to wonder if there was any dancing, but the title should have made it clear. Anyway, these are great workouts that I like to do when I get home from work, before I start cooking and wind down for the evening. The Abs workout is a killer.
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