Elaine Mansfield's Classes

2008 Classes with Elaine Mansfield
Call 607 592 4354 or email elaine@elainemansfield.com to be placed on my class announcement email list. I am not scheduling classes at this time because of my husband's illness. I am still seeing clients individually and in small groups, so please contact me if you are interested in working with me privately.

2008 DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
2-hour classes
At Finger Lakes Fitness in Center Ithaca

Fit Past Forty:
Health, Fitness, and Beauty from 40 to 80

Growing older doesn't have to be a problem. You can look and feel better than you did ten years ago! Whatever your age, fitness level, or dress size, you can make significant improvements in your health, vitality, and appearance. Learn how to keep your body strong and healthy as you age. You don't have to let your body fall apart!

This class will focus on learning a complete individualized exercise routine that will dramatically improve your fitness in only a few hours a week. You’ll also learn manageable and practical steps to improve your nutrition and make your food enjoyable, satisfying, and nurturing. Finally, we will work on motivational issues so that you can succeed in making the changes you’ve been longing to make for years.

This class helps you:
• Learn practical and efficient ideas for healthier eating based on research-supported nutrition
• Develop the motivation to transform your health habits in a supportive environment for change
• Create an individualized exercise program that is workable in your busy life
• Learn a free-weight routine for home or gym (30-45 minutes, twice a week)
• Improve your aerobic fitness at every level (20-30 minutes, three times a week)

Classes Saturdays, 10 am — noon
$120 for each eight-hour series (class size limited to 12)

2008 DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
6 - 8 PM
four 2-hour classes
At Finger Lakes Fitness in Center Ithaca

Fit in Your Favorite Clothes Forever:
Attain and Maintain A Healthy, Attractive Weight

Here are the tools to help you reach and maintain a healthy weight for life and to get through the high-calorie holidays. Severe calorie-restricted diets and punitive exercise programs destroy your health and self-confidence and can reduce your metabolism by up to 30 percent. No wonder over half of adult women are overweight! Instead of chasing unrealistic and impossible results, learn how to nurture yourself and improve your health and metabolism with exercise and nutrition.

The exercise plan:
• Is appropriate for women of any age and fitness level
• Includes strength training and aerobic routines designed to promote metabolic healing
• Includes hands-on strength training instruction
• Increases lean body mass and metabolic healing
• Helps your body burn more calories even when at rest
• Helps you develop self-confidence and motivation
• Can be done in as little as two hours a week

The nutrition plan:
• Supports healthy weight control for life
• Helps you create an individualized plan that fits your goals and time constraints
• Nurtures your body to help you avoid emotional eating
• Teaches you how to satisfy your hunger while building health and losing weight
• Teaches you how to eat for health and enjoyment without spending your life in the kitchen
• Increases health and vitality

The total plan:
• Brings consciousness to the longing that underlies emotional eating
• Teaches you strategies for reaching and maintaining your health and weight goals for life

Classes Thursdays, Sept. 20 - Oct. 11, 6 - 8 pm
$120 for each eight-hour series (class size limited to 8)
$90 for Finger Lakes Fitness members

THURSDAYS, OCT. 25 - NOV. 15, 2007
6 - 8 PM
four 2-hour classes
At Finger Lakes Fitness in Center Ithaca

Strength, Bones, and Beauty:
Improve Your Bone Health, Improve Your Appearance

This class helps women of all ages and fitness levels develop strong bones for life. Strong bones are essential to an attractive and healthy body, but poor bone health is common. While women at midlife and older are concerned about the common effects of lost bone strength, postural collapse from compression fractures is only part of the problem. Fragile bones can result in lost mobility and physical dependence. And poor bone health has become a problem for young women, too, because of inadequate nutrition, severe dieting, too little exercise, genetic factors, or a history of smoking.

The Strength, Bones, and Beauty program simultaneously improves your bone health, general health, appearance, and self-confidence. You'll learn about the primary importance of exercise for lowering fracture risk for women of all bone densities, whether or not they are taking medication to lower bone loss. You'll also learn more about bone health testing and recent research about nutrition and bone health.

Elaine's bone health program was published in February 2006 in the Strength and Conditioning Journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Her article "Designing Exercise Programs to Lower Fracture Risk in Mature Women" reviews recent research on using exercise to lower fracture risk and designs an exercise program based on this research.

This class helps you:
• Understand and lower risk factors for bone fractures
• Learn a bone-strengthening resistance training program appropriate and safe for your fitness level
• Master your strength training routine with hands-on instruction
• Improve bone health with bone-loading aerobic exercise
• Gain confidence in your body's strength and capacities
• Improve balance and posture to prevent falls
• Use nutrition and nutritional supplements to improve your bone health
• Understand bone health testing

Classes Thursdays, Oct. 25 - Nov. 15, 2007, 6 - 8 PM
$120 for each eight-hour series (class size limited to 8)
$90 for Finger Lakes Fitness members

THURSDAYS, DEC 6 & 13, 2007
6 - 8 PM
two 2-hour classes
At Finger Lakes Fitness in Center Ithaca

Strength, Beauty, and Confidence:
A Time-Efficient Program for Transforming Your Body

Women lose as much as 10% of their muscle mass per decade. Unless we do something to prevent it, the muscles grow weak, the belly rounds, and the arms become flabby. Fortunately, you can halt and reverse this change and become stronger, healthier, and more shapely as you age. A few hours a week of appropriate and effective exercise will transform your body in ways you didn't think possible. Join Elaine Mansfield for two 2-hour sessions designed to teach you a strength training routine designed for your level of fitness. You'll learn safe exercise form, a time-efficient exercise routine you can practice on your own, tools for staying motivated, and much more.

This class focuses on:
• Creating an exercise program appropriate for your individual level of fitness
• Hands-on strength training instruction
• Staying motivated

Classes Thursdays, Dec. 6 & 13, 6 - 8 PM
$60 for the four-hour class (class size limited to 8)
$45 for Finger Lakes Fitness members

Embracing Menopause
New Challenges, New Opportunities
date to be announced

Is it hot in here, or is it just me?

Remember when we were girls? Everything about our sexuality was unmentionable, and we practically had to march in the streets for access to reliable information about our own bodies. We've worked hard to make our bodies, our health, and our wellbeing something we should talk about. Now, as we transition to a new stage of femininity, good information is available and we don't have to suffer in silence.

Beyond the jokes and stereotypes of hot flashes and lost libido, menopause can be a significant time for physical strengthening, self-nurturing, and psychological deepening.

Join Elaine Mansfield for a morning focused on strategies that can help all midlife women successfully manage the physical and emotional issues of menopause and move toward wise and vital maturity. This class will focus on issues common to all midlife women, as well as the specific challenges of individualYou'll learn natural and preventive approaches to menopause's physical challenges that use nutrition, exercise, and herbs to help you feel like yourself again.

The class will cover:
- Natural approaches to the physical challenges of menopause
- Nutrition and supplements
- Herbal support
- Exercise programs to lesson symptoms of menopause and aging
- Motivation for making menopause an opportunity for physical and emotional transformation

High stress doesn't just take the joy out of life, it can damage your health. Even if you can't change your over-booked calendar or resolve difficult dilemmas, you can dramatically lessen the physical and emotional ravages of stress. Learn the simple and practical improvements in your health habits that can lessen the stress reactions caused by multi-tasking, sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, too little exercise, and constant anxiety -- otherwise known as daily life.

Join Elaine Mansfield for a morning devoted to learning efficient techniques to immediately lower your level of tension and anxiety. Learn to defuse the stress reactions whose cascading negative effects increase your risk of adrenal exhaustion, eating problems, depression, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and gastrointestinal trouble, and learn how to incorporate these life-saving techniques into your everyday life.

Create A Personal Plan for Stress Relief