Redefining Fitness, with SassFactor Fitness SassFactor Fitness

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 episode I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Veronica Jow, a medical doctor with board certifications in internal medicine and sports medicine, with over a decade of experience practicing sports medicine in the Bay Area of northern California, and discuss her unique approach to fitness, healing, injury, recovery, and patient care.
Through her work as a collegiate Team Physician at the University of California, Berkeley and into private practice at Avid Sports Medicine, Dr. Jow has helped patients from elite athletes to underserved populations recover through empathy, education, partnership and the concept of movement as medicine. Bringing a system of care usually reserved for elite athletes, to all fitness enthusiasts and people on the fitness journey.

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
 

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

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

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

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