Redefining Fitness, with SassFactor Fitness

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 C...

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 peopl...

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...

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 th...

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 ...

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. ...

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 i...

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 y...

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 internet.

Some of you are packed to your limit with commitments and responsibilities...

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...

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 pow...

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 diffe...

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...

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 po...

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 effic...

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 bigg...

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 energ...