(DVD/NTSC). "Ultimate Bellydance Fitness Workout" has emerged from the growing dance fitness trend. Created by New York belly dance guru Jehan Kamal in consultation with sought-after personal trainer Andy Troy CSCS, the workout consists of 7 segments, each led by a different professional New York bellydancer.

Specially designed to fight boredom (the biggest complaint about fitness programs.) In "Ultimate" the faces, mood, style and rhythm change every few minutes. Modern original music: Worldbeat and New Age. Dynamic, entertaining and challenging. The music, the spirit and the look of the fitness "choreographies" are young, modern, classy and sophisticated - not a whiff of stale air: Definitely not the old-fashioned kind of belly dancing. Every move on this video can be put to use on a nightclub dance floor.

Chapters: warmup, strength, sensuality, joy, passion, energy and cooldown.

Extras:

* Presentations by personal trainer Andy Troy CSCS: About the nature of aerobic exercise and monitoring your heart rate; The importance of warmup and cooldown.

* A dance meditation 'ritual,' A Body Prayer to bring relaxation and focus before the workout.

Reviews:

"A colorful, exotic, and sexy way to get your blood moving and your muscles working. It is an enjoyably varied and exciting mixture of different bellydance styles and routines and certainly won't become boring after just a few repetitions, like many workout videos."

Amanda DeWees, DVD Verdict

Customers say:

"The music fits perfectly and changes with each section. The moves demonstrated look great and are shown in detail. It's fun and never gets boring! They have one girl for each section teaching the move, and then others are added to show variations."

"This DVD is all it says it is and more, a real dance and a strong fitness program. It's really good. I've bought a number of belly dance and fitness tapes and been VERY disappointed. I think all the instructors are real dancers and that makes a big diff, because when you follow a strong, trained dancer, your body makes an extra effort to imitate the instructor's technique and energy."