Belly Dancing Total Workout
August 28, 2010 by admin
Filed under Weight Loss DVDs
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Belly Dancing Total Workout will help you to develop strong and shapely abdominal muscles, which are important for maintaining good posture and a healthy back, and for projecting an image of feminine beauty. Belly Dancing will strengthen all of your abdominal muscles and the arm movements will tone your upper body and arms. Belly Dancing is the perfect exercise to achieve your feminine best. Your instructor is Amira Mor, known around the world for her unique dance style, w… More >>
Excellent! she has a fabulous technique and for beginners is a wonderful DVD, I have shared this DVD here in Mexico with my Belly Dance students and we have learned all the movements shimmies, ondulations, etc.
It is also a great work-out!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
This was one of my first belly dance dvd’s that I got a few years ago. I use it periodically and this is one of my favorite Amira Mor dvds (her other ones I would give 2 or 3 stars depending on what dvd it is). This dvd works well for beginners because it keeps with very simple moves so you don’t get frustrated if your knowledge of belly dance is limited. I like how she explains how to do the moves, especially on the arm moves (however she does have an accent so it can be a bit hard to understand her but I wouldn’t mark her down on that as it doesn’t hamper effectiveness). I really like how she presents herself also, she is a confident teacher but not overly bubbly like some instructors can be and she seems to love belly dancing.
The main part of this dvd starts with a few minutes of warm up which prepares the body for the belly dance workout. She then focuses on the upper body first (snake arms, chest isolations, waist circles, undulations etc) then moves to the lower body (shimmies, pelvic shimmies, etc). The last part of the dvd works on walking. I think she could have done a little bit better on this part so I docked a star but it’s still not a bad section, just my least favorite part of the workout. Then comes the free style part where Amira Mor and her class dance. I have yet to free style belly dance myself so I can’t say much.
As I said earlier, this is good for beginners and as a starting point for other dvds (especially the Neon, Blanca, and other World Dance New York belly dance dvds). The Amira Mor Total Workout Belly dance dvd is a low impact workout but don’t let the seemingly easy moves fool you, if done correctly you can really get a good workout (especially your core). Overall a good dvd and I am happy to have it among my many other belly dancing dvds!
Rating: 4 / 5
This is a good dvd, it is basicly a tape of a class,it could be better if it were more one on one instructional. However the basics are all covered and it is fun.
Rating: 3 / 5
I spent $7 on this DVD and still feel ripped off. It was a tape of a class at Bally’s with little instruction. The dancers in the background weren’t even good and there was a 7 year old in there! I don’t want to spend money to watch a class. I was hoping there would be combinations or something, and there weren’t any. I turned it off before it got to the end because I got so bored. The shoulder shimmies lasted forever, to the point that it was just ridiculous. I haven’t decided if I am going to keep it or not.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was really hopeing that this would be at least an okay beginner DVD. I teach belly dance and I buy el-chepo DVD’s to see what my students/general public might be temped to purchase. Amira Mor has an impressive bio on her website, but I’m just not a fan of her fusion between jazz/salsa/belly dance. There is no info on the culture of belly dance; and I found the costumes revealing and some of the moves tacky. I would be ashamed if someone based their perception of what belly dance really is on this video. It’s a beginning student class filmed at Bally Fitness, and it looks like a beginning class. Even with the plethora of different styles, I would never teach students to bring their shoulders up to their ears in snake arms, or to shoulder shimmy with such a pronounced forward lean. It gets one star from me because Amira has a positive attitude and lively personality. You get what you pay for. IAMED has a much better and classier line of teaching and performance DVDs. If you can’t afford IAMED new, look for them used.
Rating: 1 / 5