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...home." To give guests that home away from home feeling, Westin is teaming up with Reebok to offer fitness-friendly guest rooms. Within the next few months, the chain plans to kit out two guest rooms at each of its 121 hotels worldwide. Reebok has helped design both the workout regimen and an in-room yoga video. One room will feature a stationary bike, another a treadmill, and both will offer fitness equipment, including exercise mats and balls - all for around $20 more than the standard rate. Westin will offer yoga and Pilates?inspired training DVDs in the fitness rooms...
...belly-dance mystique--diaphanous veils, belts hung with coins, finger cymbals and exotic Middle Eastern music--there's a new fan base that sees nothing unusual about executing a hip drop or camel walk to the strains of 21st century techno music as long as it's a good workout. And there are a host of new belly-dance videos with titles like Cardio Shimmy and Pure Sweat to show how it's done. "What we're doing is creating physical movement that has nothing to do with having an emotional connection with the culture," explains Berkeley, Calif., instructor Suhaila...
Even fitness guru Kathy Smith has set aside her free weights to undulate in a new DVD, Flex Appeal: A Belly Dance Workout. Says Smith: "My hope was to bring belly dancing to a person who would be too intimidated to take a class. I saw there was a need for something a little different for the mainstream audience...
Just how good a workout is belly dance? That, of course, depends on how you do it--and how often. But practitioners say the precise, rolling movements of belly dance combine aerobic exercise with stretching and strengthening. "Everybody learning the muscle-isolation exercises says they discovered muscles they never knew they had, because we don't just work the main muscle groups--we're engaging all the supporting ones," says Rania Androniki Bossonis, a Long Beach, Calif., instructor who, in keeping with the trend, has created a DVD series called Bellydance Fitness for Weight Loss...
...bored by her old six-day-a-week weight-training routine at the gym. After 21/2 years of belly dance, she says, "I'm lean in different places, like my abdominals, hips and inner thighs." Best of all, "you don't even realize you're following a workout regimen because you're so caught up in the music and movement." Silva says she has no desire to set foot in a gym ever again...