Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Is Lack of Capacity Holding You Back From Reaching Your Fitness Goals?
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 Feb 09, 2022
How Mind and Body Balance Improves Fitness
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
But did you know that changes in our body balance affects the balance in our mind, our mental health,
and changes in our mental health affect our body balance?
Science shows a relationship between the mind and the body with regard to balance in either.
If we make improvements in body balance, improvements in mental health are evident as well and vice versa.
Several studies show that many times, the reason we may not be able to keep up the fitness regimen we know we need is because we do not have the mental capacity to stay consistent.
Something emotionally or in our minds is holding us back from doing what it is we KNOW we need to do.
It’s not necessarily about a lack of commitment, but the capacity of our minds in the moment.
Improve mental capacity and improve the ability to maintain your program.
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Building a Foundation of Fitness - Building Block 1: The Mind
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
The Mind is a powerful thing. It controls everything. What it focuses on it magnifies and believes. And what we believe we achieve.
What we tell our minds, whether from us or other people, the mind believes over time. And those beliefs can either work for us or against us. What we believe impacts how we show up in situations, including how we show up for ourselves.
With tools and techniques, through neuroplasticity, we have the power to make our brain remap itself and work for us.
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Letting Go of Perfection
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Are limiting beliefs, hyper focus, or an attachment to perfection interfering with your ability to reach your goals?
Our brain is a powerful thing. What we think affects our behavior. What we believe, we see and achieve.
What we tell ourselves about ourselves and our experiences can help or hurt progress toward our goals. Our ability to to keep perspective and stay focused on the small as well as the big objectives can be the difference between making it all the way, or falling short.
This video discusses some behaviors to watch out for as we enter the new year with intention.
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
SMART Goals, Because Resolutions Resolve Nothing
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
Wednesday Dec 29, 2021
This time of year we often think hard about goal setting and resolutions for the new year. But SMART Goals offer a more effective way to set intentions and carry out tasks to reach our goals.
Last year this time, I too was thinking about my goals. This episodes dives into how I applied SMART Goals to return from a near career ending injury, got back to work, added in some adventures and am on my way again to better fitness!
Learn how to use SMART Goals to get back on path and reach your fitness results.
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Managing How Chronic Pain Affects the Brain
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Have trouble sticking with your fitness plan? Chronic pain may be affecting your brain in such a way that prevents your ability to be consistent.
Long term pain can teach your brain to TRICK you into believing movement is causing pain when there is none. It is a protection mechanism to keep you from further injuring yourself, but after prolonged periods, can start to work AGAINST you in its attempt to help.
Dive into this week’s podcast to learn more about this issue and how to prevent it, or if you are already in this cycle, how to get out of it.
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
The 3 Building Blocks to Forming a Foundation of Fitness
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
The 3 Building Blocks are key to helping you 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.
This is an introduction to strategies, tools, habits, and mindsets needed to integrate into life to place the body in the optimal situation and posture for ideal movement efficiency and function.
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Introduction to Redefining Fitness
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
Tuesday Dec 14, 2021
There‘s more to fitness than just food, numbers on a chart, scale, and clothes, or going to a gym. Our thinking, impacts our ability to obtain and maintain a lifestyle helpful to meeting fitness goals. We discuss the truth about fitness, what impacts it and how to navigate barriers to getting it. The mission of the Redefining Fitness community is to implement methods proven to provide results, reconnect with self and something bigger, fulfill fitness potential and restore the athlete within.
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Why Redefining Fitness
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Monday Dec 13, 2021
Helping fitness enthusiasts, first responders, former athletes, and weekend warriors reconnect with themselves in order to achieve their optimal fitness goals physically, mentally, and spiritually.
In this community we understand that fitness is about more than just how we work out and what we eat. That's important, but there's much more to the equation. Here, we redefine fitness for ourselves to reconnect with self, increase energy, fulfill fitness potential and restore the athlete within.
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.