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 enthus ...
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Movement as Medicine for Injury Recovery and Pain Management : A Conversation with Dr. Veronica Jow
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Are you struggling to find motivation to stay active or recover from an injury? Injury recovery and physical therapy can be challenging, especially when you're trying to get back to your favorite activities, and particularly after you have been released by your doctor to “resume normal activities,” but you are nowhere near your normal. In this epis…
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What Are You Consuming? Answer 3 Questions to Improve Your Functional Fitness Diet
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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 fit…
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Building Foundation: Navigating the Gap Between Post Injury Recovery and ”Normal” Activity
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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 …
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5 Quick Tips to Improve Eating Habits
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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 …
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Why Are Some Foods Addictive and What Does the Food Industry and Your Emotions Have to Do With It?
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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 …
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How To Stay Consistent in a Movement Plan
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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 …
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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 al…
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First Responders Respond to Self First
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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 …
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Welcome to Season 2 of Redefining Fitness
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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 dis…
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Is Lack of Capacity Holding You Back From Reaching Your Fitness Goals?
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Fitness is not bound to just working out. The success or lack thereof, starts with our mind and spirit. And without addressing any turmoil in those areas, NO fitness plan will stick. Capacity is often a barrier to sustained fitness, not motivation or commitment or dedication, like people tend to say or has been beaten into us by voices all over the…
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How Mind and Body Balance Improves Fitness
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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 vi…
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Building a Foundation of Fitness - Building Block 1: The Mind
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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 …
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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 per…
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SMART Goals, Because Resolutions Resolve Nothing
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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 bac…
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Managing How Chronic Pain Affects the Brain
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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 pe…
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The 3 Building Blocks to Forming a Foundation of Fitness
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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…
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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 t…
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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 equ…
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