1. Bellydance Fast for Weight Loss
If you're looking to do fitness bellydance routines to lose weight, then you're going to have to pick a class that keeps you active for the entire time. Avoid ones where you spend a lot of time playing cymbals and little time moving. You'll also want to avoid classes where the instructor spends most of the time talking. Move to medium or fast music and be sure to do a lot of moves that engage your hips and legs. Combine your fast-moving belly dancing with a proper diet for maximum weight loss. Also be sure to belly dance for at least 15 minutes a day. If you want to lose weight belly dancing, you need to do it more often than 1 hour each week. Belly dancing can burn between 250 to 300 calories an hour.
2. Tone Your Lower Body
Bellydance routines are great to tone that lower body like your tush, thighs and hips, but the routines that really work the lower body involve traveling steps. These take practice to learn, so don't get frustrated if the moves don't come naturally. A few lower body belly dance routines you can do include: the Lame Duck, the Choo-Choo and the Step-Hop. To do the Lame Duck, point your leading foot so you are resting on the ball of your foot. Then flatten the other one to make your hips unlevel. Travel sideways. The Choo-Choo is a very fast scooting movement where you stand on the ball of one foot and inch forward very fast. With the Step-Hop, you put your weight on one foot, hop on it, and bend the leg of the other leg to swing it up to the front. Travel while you hop and alternate sides to work both legs.
3. Move the Arms to Work the Upper Body
Belly dance routines typically put more emphasis on the lower body and, of course, the abdominals. However, you can work the upper body as well, but you must make a concentrated effort. You can do a shoulder shimmy, which involves alternately moving the shoulders back and forth with the hands not moving. This move exercises the chest slightly, but mostly the upper abs. Plus if you do it fast, you're basically doing a breast shimmy. You can further give your upper abs a workout by creating a circle with your rib cage. Include controlled arm movements to change this bellydancing move to a more effective upper body workout and also include the upper back.
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