Search - Dance Fitness for Beginners: Daily Quickies - Ten Minute Workouts on DVD

Good 6 short 10 min quickies

Lena, LMT | Nassau, NY | 11/09/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"These are all the bonus 10 min workouts from each of the mentioned DVDs. DVD has option of regular or letterbox screen & 2.0 or 5.1 dolby sound. Some workoutse may seem like they need more instruction because these are only bonus versions:

Modonna Grimes from her African Beat - 2 min of warmup with basic 80s/90s aerobics fast-paced arm & high kick leg movements, then 3 min of a $*#( of squats, then 1.5 min of basic plies, then 1 min of standing tonining abs/leg pose, then on the floor for 1 min for basic ab crunches w/legs in air, then 3 stretches for legs & spine. your basic gym aerobics instructor, no dance or flair.

Suhaila from her Bellydance fitness Fusion Buns - saddle squat doing for glut isolations (hard to do, but fun once you get it) for 1.5 min, then hip bumps which you do by contracting gluts as move knees slightly & walk (easier to understand with her instruction on the main dvd) but easy enough for those who pick up thing faily easily, (great workout) for 3 min, then 3/5 contractions of gluts for each step (great look) for 2 min, then full shimmy for 4.5 min with diff arm movements (great butt & leg workout.) She has a great personality & a great dancer.

Jayna from her Bellydance for Romance - chest slides, back/forth, lifts/drops, chest circles, hips circles, vertical & horizonal figure 8s & camels. Her pace is very relaxed, she goes slow at first, so even w/o the main dvd, you should be able to pick it up.

Rania from one of her Bellydance for Fitness - chest front/back, lifts/drops for 2 min, camels for 2 min, camels while walking for 2 min, chest circles for 1 min, chest cirlces while walking for 1 min, chest drops while walking, chest slides/drops while walking, chest figure 8s & chest figure 8s while swaying body up/down for 1 min. Actually great chest/upper back, upper ab toner.

Madonna Grimes from her Urban Street Heat - warm up with regular fast-paced arm/leg kicks aerobics for a 2 min warmup, squats & lunges for 2 min, standing ab crunches & oblique crunches for 2 min, squating abs crunches for 1 min, floor ab crunches for 2 min, leg/butt lifts for 1 min, basic spine & a couple leg stretches for 1 min.

BONUS Yoga w/Rainbea Mars from her Dusk OR Dawn DVD - sitting, child's pose, cat/cown, arm stretch, downard dog, held breath standing & shift hips, moutain/frwd standing bends & corbras, twisted lunges, downward dog, moutain, frwd st. bend, cobra, down dog, warrior 1, cobra, down dog, warrior 1, sun salutations, twisted lunges, sun salutations, chair pose, child's pose, laying down in cobbler's pose/butterfuly for 1 min with her positive thoughts. She speaks throughout with extra positive words, very relaxed."

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Linda One | Burleson, Texas United States | 02/03/2007

(1 out of 5 stars)

"First of all, there is nothing "hip-hop" about the hip hop workouts. There are two by the same woman and they are essentially the same. There is no dancing and no dance moves incorporated into the boring routine which is done to a grating rhythm and not to hip hop music. The other three workouts are all belly dancing. I bought this for myself but was hoping I could use it in my junior high aerobics class. It is so boring my students would not enjoy it and I certainly won't use it. I've come up with more interesting routines on my own. This was a total waste of money and a complete rip off."