Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Goldhill Home Media
• VHS Release Date: December 29, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000507PF
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,372 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite, March 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Bellydance Fitness for Beginners: Slim Down [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I am currently trying to get back into shape after not exercising for about three years. Because of this, I find that I have to stick to lower impact videos. I bought Bellydance for Beginners-Fat Burning on a whim over Christmas and have since purchased both Basic Moves and this video. Though I enjoy all of them this one is my favorite by far.

Visually, it's a little bit glitzier than the others. The set is the same room but colorful drapes and pillows have been added to decorate it so it doesn't look like a big empty room anymore. Also the country "landscape" has changed to something like a city at night. The girl's costumes have also changed for the better to shinier fabrics and more fancy hip scarves. The music is much better as well -- sassier and more energetic! I was surprised however that the choregraphed dances during the credits have been removed and replaced with a montage of 30 sec clips of the twins dancing!

Workout wise, this is FUN! The thirty minutes absolutely fly by. This video is much more of a cardiovascular workout than any of the others. You "genie bounce" in between the various toning moves(it's a bouncy way of stepping side to side.) There's quite a bit of jumping and hopping throughout and this video gets my heart racing more than any of the others did. Part of this is because the moves are pretty FAST. I recommend starting out with the Basic Moves video first in order to learn the movements at a slower pace. (However, this is not necessary, if you don't want to buy both -- just rewind...)

Like all of the videos, this one is full of fun and fluid, sensual movements. I always end up with tight shoulders and hips from the video. The workout seems to mostly target the waist, hips/gluts, and some abs although your entire body gets to move around throughout. It is a good overall workout. I find myself doing the moves along to the music in my head throughout the day after I have done the workout.

Veena and Neena videos are always great productions and rarely have any distracting close-ups that prevent you from seeing what you should be doing. The twins are skilled dancers and very inspiring to watch. One of the best influences of the videos for me is that I have become more aware of the many ways my body (which I have always thought of as very rigid) can move. Yes, my ribcage can move seperately from my hips! Although i may still be a bit klutzy, i am gradually becoming able to move in the sensual ways I always wanted to.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A breath of fresh Air, July 26, 2002

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"bellydepot" (houston, tx United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bellydance Fitness for Beginners: Slim Down [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I go to the gym and get bored fast. I have other exercise tapes(tae bo, denise austin, etc.) Of all the exercise videos and classes I have every been to this girls are the most enjoyable. I look forward to exercising with them, and learning the moves. The moves are easy and simple to learn, even for a exercise veteran like me. It is a long way from the traditional get on the floor ab crunches and leg crunches which are boring. These exercises uses your own body weight for resistance(natural resistance and isometric holds, for those who complain about that). This tape works the large muscle groups and every other part of your body(arms, legs, chest, abs, back, and calves)! Each time you work with the tape you will have a different workout everytime!! Also, I have never sweated so hard on a video before and I mearsured my hips after doing the video, I had lost 3 inches in a week!!! I never woke up the next morning sore from the video!!!! It has been over a month and I still use this video. I have recently purchased both box sets (the exercising videos and the instructional dance videos). I never felt so sexy exercising! These exercising video is for exercising not learning to bellydance!! It says what type of video it is on the box(if you read it), so I do not know why some people believe that they will learn bellydance techniques to use for your husband!! That is what their instructional dance videos are for! Also, I do not understand some of those women who said that the videos have too many reps on their legs, etc. Well, as I said before the moves are using your body resistance and uses isometric holds. If you stay with the video you will see results(if you eat right and do the video), and I have felt the results in my abs.
Loved the tape. You will too.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Want to laugh & sweat & actually get somewhere?, August 20, 2003

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Dragon Lady "a film student" (DeSoto, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bellydance Fitness for Beginners: Slim Down [VHS] (VHS Tape)

You look at this video and say, "You're kidding, right?"

I said that. Now, I am sweating like crazy and working harder than I would have ever guessed before-hand. AND I am laughing like crazy and LOVING IT!

If you're a modern American couch potato mom (like moi, more than I would like to admit), whose most vigorous exercise is chasing the kids into the car to drag them to yet another after-school activity. If you're wanting a great place to start burning off some of the the "baby fat" that came and never left. If you want an exercise video that will keep you laughing at yourself as you do it (life is way too grim these days) rather than getting depressed and feeling stupid at the sight of a perfect young thing telling you to "Come on, and feel the burn," (one whom you could never hope to match even with thousands of years of exercising and thousands more dollars spent at the plastic surgeon, and was probably born looking that and has never had kids yet, and lives on a single lettuce leaf for lunch!!!! ARGH!!!! Enough venting.) If your most active pursuit is surfing the web (I am a web programmer and free-lance writer). You've found the right video to help you get on your way.

The only discomfort I have felt so far is tired arms, but I already seem to dropping weight. My husband keeps laughing at this forty-year-old shaking her tail but even he can see the difference after only a few days of working out with Neena and Veena.

Now, all I have to do is convince him to buy me the whole set for x-mas! This will definately be a the top of my list of gotta haves! I think he'll go for it! He likes what he's seeing and so do I!