Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss featuring Rania Too Hip

Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss featuring Rania Too Hip

Combine seven easy-to-follow bellydance moves into a high-energy cardio hip hop routine — fuse Bellydance with hip hop to tone muscles and burn fat fast.

Bellydance is one of the most ancient and evolved forms of dance in the world. It’s a powerful way to lose weight because you burn calories and fat while massaging and stimulating your digestive system, which increases your metabolism. Rania, a certified aerobics instructor and multi-award winner dancer, combines her extensive dance background and aerobics training into an award-winning bellydance routine.

Too Hip, a new intermediate-level program, uses bellydance combinations with high-energy music for a great cardio workout. The moves have been specifically chosen to sculpt and strengthen the abs, waist, arms, legs and seat with an intensity that gives you a complete aerobic workout. Tone muscles and burn fat while learning sensuous bellydance moves!

Rania Bossonis is an AFAA-certified bellydance instructor who has been dancing most of her life. Rania studied Middle Eastern dance with instructors from all over the world. She has won various awards for belly dancing and has performed on TV and for celebrities. Her dancing style is graceful, passionate, and mesmerizing. She currently has nine bellydance videos on the market, including her Bellydance for Weight Loss, which was voted in the Top Ten Best Workouts of 2004. Rania is also the author of the book Bellydance for Fitness, due for release at the end of 2004.

Special Features:

- Presented in Normal Frame and Anamorphic Widescreen
- 10 Minute Bonus
- Bonus Performance
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
- Workout to Music Without Narration
- Photo Gallery
- Full Motion Interactive Menus
- Trailers

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Okay…
This is a great DVD, but I like her Personal Trainer instead, just because there are so many of her DVD workouts combined on one DVD.

4 Stars good workout, bad teacher
i’m giving 4 stars because it really is a great workout compared to most “real” bellydancing. i had fun, i worked up a sweat, and i learned to ignore how bad the “dancers” are. rania is by far one of the worst belly dancers i have seen. she is stiff with no fluidity or grace, tends to be slightly off beat, and gives little instruction, so make sure you have previous belly dancing experience before giving this a try, especially if you want to learn real techniques of bellydancing. there is absolutely nothing sensual or subtle about rania’s dancing!

if you want to learn the ART of bellydancing and not just do a watered-down hip-hop version of repetitive hip jolts, then i suggest a dvd called “sensual bellydance with blanca.” it is much more graceful and dance-like (and super sexy…my husband friggin’ loves it!), but it isn’t as good of an aerobic workout.

4 Stars Great fast-paced bellydance workout for those who know basic moves
L. Hawkins “Laura Wilde” wrote a great review 1/2005.

I disliked Rania’s previous 4 disk set because the music was faked & boring, she moved slow & stiffly, she would repeat the same move so many times, you’d only learn about 4-6 moves in 30 min & the background dancers looked bored. The good thing about it was she would teach you 1/2 several times & normal speed several times.

This is her best other then her “personal trainer” (since then it’s ok if dance stiffly since it’s like a gym workout) As L. Hawkins said, it’s fast paced, you get your heart rate up, the dancers are more fluid, though occasionally I saw a bored expression towards the end & the moves stringed together felt pretty good. She gives good instructions, telling you the move, how to do it & dancer’s 8 count to stay on beat.

She moves stiffly still, but it’s so fast, you barely notice other then making sure you’re keeping up.

The warm up even includes several types of figure 8s, the routine has hip drops & w/leg lift, hip drops 3x, hip bumps w/step back, hip twists & shimmies, a slow turn, hip back, vertical figure 8s & couple more moves.

The cool down is nice & slow with sitting fwd bend & more.

The bonus 9 min workout is more gym drill style which is more her style that will really tone you fast.

You can see a preview at youtube com or the whole workout in 3 parts on guba com

5 Stars Fantastic
Great!!!!

You do have to know basics in belly dancing. I love this DVD, and have seen the results fast.

Depending, on my schedule I try to use it at least 4 times a week in combination with a sculpting DVD.

5 Stars Great Workout If U Know the Movements
This is the best of the Rania workouts. The music was a great step up from the poorly polytonic music in the other series. I recently purchased the initial box set and found it was too slow for me. Because there is no instructional directions in this video for the movements, I suggest anyone who feels the movements are too hard, try checking out Rania’s box series. Ever step that is performed in “Too Hip” is taught in the either Pure Sweat, Cardio Shimmy, Hip Hop Drop, or Bellydance Boogie at a slower in depth pace.

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