Belly Twins: Bellydance Core Conditioning
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Actor: Neena, VeenaDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Belly Twins
DVD Reviews of Belly Twins: Bellydance Core Conditioning
DVD Review: Good for the woman who doesn't like lunges
Summary: 5 Stars
This is for the women who love to bellydance, and don't like to do boring exercises like lunges, over and over until you are sick of them. I definitely feel like I worked out when I was done, even though I've been bellydancing for 5-6 year now. The Bellytwins fitness videos are the reason why I lost weight before, and I'm hoping to do it again adding this video, because I had a period of "lazy time" due to my foot pain all the time.
In this video, you will use light weights to work your arms, do quite a bit of shimmying, and doing bellydance moves to work your body out, it's cardio, with some light weight lifting for you arms. So if you love to bellydance, and if you want to lose weight, and if you don't like lunges, then I would recommend this for you. Especially if you are a fan of the Bellytwins fitness series of dvds.
DVD Review: Not their best
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a big fan of Veena & Neena. But this video just doesn't deliver. It looks cheaply made, like it is a public access show with weird transitions between each exercise in certain sections. It seems a little disjointed, and I'm not sure why, since most of their other DVDs are professional quality. This distracted me from the actual workout, which I didn't particularly care for. I just didn't "feel" it like I did with their other workouts. In fact, I stopped about halfway through the DVD and put in another bellydance workout! I'd give this 2 stars but I like Veena & Neena so for their presence, I'll give it 3 stars. I think I'll give it one more try, if I still don't like it, I'm selling it.DVD Review: A great workout if you're familiar with the Twins!
Summary: 4 Stars
As noted in other reviews, this is a great workout! The first time or two I worked up a sweat but didn't think I'd done anything that would burn my muscles- I was wrong! I woke up so sore the next day- abs, arms, hips- hey this works!
If you are familiar with Veena and Neena's other videos, you will not have much difficulty picking up the moves here. I would not reccomend this to someone unfamiliar with a belly dance workout, as they do not spend a lot of time teaching the moves and hardly any time going slow enough to catch on. Try instead their "Basic Moves" or "Slim Down"
On the downside- the camera isn't always where it needs to be and the audio is poor quality(sounds over-dubbed in spots). These don't distract too much from the overall experience.
DVD Review: Slow paced, some great areas, others boring for light days
Summary: 3 Stars
I agree with the review : Some sections are OK but too short, others are boring, 9/21/06
The menu options are good, chapter choices, in 3 diff languages & music only. The bonus dance of both the twins is very cute/fun, but only minimal basic moves which disappointed me. The production is good overall, but not as good as their old GREAT Discover Belly dance series. The music is a fast-tempo Eastern but boring, doesn't help you to exercise & is annoying after a while. They teach as they do the moves, not narrative & cue YOUR left & right. They don't give much of any detailed instruction on most moves, so if you don't know how to already do it, you might get frustrated.
Warm-Up - 5 min which contains very easy basic stretches that even people who never exercise could do easily, barely worth doing.
Cardio Belly Bast - 11 min & a lot of basic step touch bouncing (silly just to burn calories), some arm movements, hip bumps, hip slides, hip circles & hip circles turns. It's always at a very slow pace.
Core Weights - 10 min & uses 2-5 lb weights. Very basic belly dance moves (wrist circles, snake arms, shoulder rolls, etc.) & regular slow movement gym free weight moves. All moves are done slowly.
Core Abs - 10 min & does hip circles, pelvic drops, basic camels & builds up to a chest circles, but never does it. The music has now changed to clubby music which is better, but the tempo is fast & makes you want to move faster then they move. If you know the moves, move faster then them. They give more instruction here on how to do the move but still not like they used to.
Lower Body - 10 min & does hip lifts & drops, traveling hip drops, leg lifts (good balancing exercise) They move super fast once they teach it slowly which I was happy to see. The music had changed to a good fusion clubby & Eastern fast tempo.
Shake it off Shimmy - 10 min which has 3 min of full speed shoulder shimmies (my shoulders were very tired), & never stopping basic shimmies focusing on bending the knees, shimmies while moving the torso, on toes & traveling on toes. Egyptian shimmies (using knees) while bending torso to work obliques & turning & hip shimmies while on toes & walking & turning.
Belly Workout - 5 min, on mat kneeling, one sister standing for those w/bad knees, hip bumps, chest horizontal circles, then laying down holding up body 1 arm, leg shimmy & leg fwd/back w/uludation
Cool Down - 5 min, basic side stretching, good leg stretch. The music is ambient w/nature sounds.
This is best for people w/time & light days or those who don't work out often. For those who do, maybe skipping the weight portion, FFwing the bouncy step touches in the beginning & doing this workout on full speed when they go slow & continuing doing harder moves when they do easy moves will make it more your speed & enjoyable. If so, add a star.
I do love the belly twins, they give great instruction & you can see they truly love to dance. They also have more of a fun tongue-in-cheek humor then any other belly dance workouts which makes it feel like you're working out with a friend. You never feel frustrated if you can't do the moves as gracefully as they do.
Preview can be found at collagevideo com
DVD Review: Nice and different
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the idea of combining light weights with bellydance. This is one of my favorite DVD's now because of the variety. I love bellydance but sometimes I do feel like I'd like to incorporate some light weight into my workout. However, I don't like all those boring workouts where all you do is just lift weights. This one has the best of two worlds. The girls are amazing and also I love the language options because I can brush up on my rusty French. What else could you ask for?
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