Redefining Fitness, with SassFactor Fitness
The Redefining Fitness, with SassFactor Fitness Podcast serves a growing community of masters athletes, adventurers, fitness enthusiasts, and First Responders seeking to get reconnected with themselves in order to restore optimal fitness, without pain. If you’ve been injured, ill, suffer from chronic pain, are overworked, or otherwise had life interfere with your fitness and you want it back, this podcast is for you! I’m your host, Cyn Sass, a former competitive athlete turned fitness enthusiast and first responder. I too have experienced serious injury, been out of shape and demoralized, yet found a way to make the challenging journey back to peak fitness. I am breaking the silence around chronic pain, injury and fitness in the world of emergency services to share my experiences with you with the hope they might help you also. Subscribe to this channel for information, strategies and tools to help you reconnect with yourself and position your body to its optimal posture for ideal movement efficiency and function. Improve range of motion and flexibility, restore your inner athlete and achieve optimal fitness goals to live the pain free fit life you were meant to live.
Episodes
Episodes
Wednesday May 17, 2023
What Are You Consuming? Answer 3 Questions to Improve Your Functional Fitness Diet
Wednesday May 17, 2023
Wednesday May 17, 2023
What we feed ourselves has the power to help or hurt us in our fitness journey. Most of us are aware of how the food we EAT might impact us. But are you aware of the OTHER food sources in your environment and how your consumption of them can impact your health?
Tune in to learn 3 Key Questions to ask yourself to ensure your holistic, functional fitness diet is helping, rather hurting, your progress.
Key Moments:
1:14 - Calorie Consumption?
2:30 - Behavioral Change
3:23 - Consumption Question #1
3:40 - Motivational Music and Monologues
6:00 - Sound Affects Temperament
8:25 - Focus Shifts
9:42 - Consumption Question #2
13:15 - All Counsel Isn't Good Counsel
16:15 - Consume Connected Community
17:38 - Consumption Question #3
18:30 - Growth vs Fixed Mindset
19:17 - Consume Faith
20:20 - Read to Feed Mind and Spirit
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Have you been medically released to resume "normal activities" but are finding yourself still stuck between post injury capacity and your fitness goals?
This episode dives into how to navigate the gap between that point where your doctor releases you to return to normal activity and you're actually BACK to your normal level of activity. There is a huge gap between those two places. And that gap is often the place where active people experience difficulty, pain, re-injury or other barriers to true recovery.
Tune in to learn how you can move from post injury recovery to YOUR level of normal activity, smoothly and as pain free as possible.
Key Moments:
:45 – “The Gap”
2:14 – The Issue with The Gap
8:30 – Standing in The Gap
10:14 – Building a Foundation
13:07 - Movement Patterns That Matter
14:30 - Resilience with Redefining Fitness
17:50 - A Different Way
18:20 - Getting Back to Baseline
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
5 Quick Tips to Improve Eating Habits
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
When we start talking about diet, a lot of times the first place that we go is to counting calories and macro nutrients; grams of protein, carbohydrates, and fats. And it's a good place to start. Especially if you haven't been paying attention to what you're consuming or really need to get a handle on how you're fueling your body, currently, macro nutrient counting is good to track.
But macro nutrient and calorie counting is only one way to deconstruct how we consume food, and the changes we might need to make to change our body composition, lose weight, or better fuel your body for movement and activity.
Here are 5 Quick Tips to Improve Eating Habits and give your fitness program a boost.
Key Points:
*Use a Smaller Plate to Control Portions - 3:22
*Visually Divide Macros into Thirds - 5:00
*Choose Quality Macro Nutrient Foods - 6:00
*Just Eat Real Food: Why GMOs Could Be Problematic - 10:54
*Progressively Stack Dietary Changes - 14:39
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Friday Apr 14, 2023
Our body recognizes the cumulative effect of what we consume over the course of the day and the week. And it looks for ways to use what we eat to fuel our bodies and is dependent on the quality of that fuel.
The key is to consume the foods that we love, that love us back and fuel our bodies in the way that we need.
Because the flipside is, is that we don't pay attention to what we consume and we become addicted to foods based on the food industry's profit goals. And that is a trillion-dollar industry designed to create and market foods that make your taste buds fire then trigger your brain to respond in the same way it responds to opioids and stimulates, releasing hormones that keep us feeling like we want and NEED to consume more of what they're selling.
Key Points:
*Controlling What We Eat Is More Than Macro and Calorie Counting – 3:28
*What It Means to JERF – 5:37
*When Beef Became “Bad” – 7:50
*What the Food Industry Doesn’t Have to Tell Us – 9:30
*Creating the “Bliss Point,” Your Brain on Drugs – 10:00
*Your Food Is Playing with Your Emotions – 11:52
* Your Emotions are Playing with Your Food – 14:00
*Eat a Better Brand – 18:40
*Better Quality Won’t Break Your Bank – 22:55
*Use the 4D+ Method to Create a Better Habit – 32:55
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
How To Stay Consistent in a Movement Plan
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Have you been wondering why it’s been so hard to keep up consistency in your diet and exercise plan?
You know what to do, but something feels off.
Maybe you feel like you don’t have enough time or energy? Or that you are doing ALL the things you’ve been conditioned to believe will work, but nothing seems to be changing.
In today’s episode, tackles what could be going on and some tangible actions you can take to make change and get that needle moving on your progress.
It may not be what you think, but it DOES work!
*Disclaimer: This is intended for informational purposes and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always check with your doctor before beginning any new exercise or movement programs.
Links to Stretches for Neck/Upper Back
Neck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_TdSVFpLdg
Neck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYQr-Rs5ecA
Neck and Upper Trapezius: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNTlUaKeuXE
Upper Back Stretch/Exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We9j7uJfWXE
Links to Exercises for Neck Upper Back
Chin Tuck Neck Exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYW0LNH7RdU
Combined Back and Neck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr4b9-5W7GI
Scapular Retraction (Back): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYmjbLO-L7g
Seated Back Exercises: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M-b1c2spPE
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Redefining Fitness For Yourself
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Deep down, you know there is more to fitness than what we've been traditionally taught and generally led to believe. You know it isn’t just about just numbers on a people or food scale as energy input and output, as banging of weights, as depriving and punishing myself, you know, even if somehow that felt good.
How you look on the outside is not always an indicator of how healthy you are inside physically, mentally or spiritually. You can look good and still be incredibly unhealthy.
You want to be your best self. You want to reconnect with yourself and to fulfill your fitness potential. You want to restore optimum movement and function in your body to increase your energy, feel good inside, and experience the untapped joy you know is still locked deep down inside of you.
We can't get physically fit until we adjust our mindset and relationship with ourselves so that we can be successful in our efforts. The point is not just to gain fitness, but to sustain it.
You are looking for a way to manage your entire self, your responsibilities, your life, all of that without ignoring any aspects of it. You know that the truth about fitness is that you need to respect and pour into all of you and all of your life, your mind, your body, and your spirit.
This episode is for you!
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
First Responders Respond to Self First
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Today's episode dives into how to find the sweet spot between giving to self and giving to others so that we have the capacity to give to both?
So many times, we give so much to everyone and everything else that we have nothing left for ourselves. And we've all heard the saying, “You can't pour from an empty cup” because when your body breaks down with the inevitable illness or injury, we aren't able to show up in life or to live it the way we wish.
And this is especially true of first responders and other emergency services personnel whose job it is to give in service of others.
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Welcome to Season 2 of Redefining Fitness
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Welcome back to Season 2 of the Redefining Fitness Podcast with SassFactor Fitness!
Here we have conversations that challenge standard approaches to regaining and sustaining fitness and to understand why we find ourselves stuck in cycles of pain, injury, gaining and losing strength, energy and weight.
This is a community and space where you can discover new ways to reconnect with yourself, restore your inner athlete, and fulfill your fitness potential after injury, illness, or other life events had other plans.
Building a Foundation of Fitness
This is an introduction to the 3 Building Blocks to Forming a Fitness Foundation. They are strategies, tools, habits, and mindsets to help regain fitness. A way to help shift perspective to create healthy relationships with self, others, food and exercise, restore optimal movement and function in your body, and connect to something bigger to keep you focused when life gets rough.
Most people think, if they just knew a little more about superfoods, or the right supplements, or which days are best for lifting which body part and at what time of the day, that everything would suddenly fall into place and their health and fitness situation would turn right around.
But we know better. We’ve eaten all the right foods an avoided the other foods, implemented training several days a week but just aren’t seeing the results the way we know we should by now. And we’ve been searching for something more.
An issue in ANY of the 3 Building Blocks WILL impact the others and make progress more difficult to attain and sustain. Improvement in these areas help improve the ability to create habits that further fitness goals rather than hinder them.
It is possible to push and force and power through, but why over exhaust yourself? Especially if you are already exhausted, depleted and at the end of your rope. Who wants to ADD to the effort needed already. Why not put that last bit of energy you’ve mustered up to a better use? Toward upping your game, rather than battling yourself?
Use the 3 Building Blocks for Forming a Foundation of Fitness, your Mind, your Body, and your Spirit, to reconnect to self, increase energy, fulfill fitness potential and restore the athlete within.