The Rig's Rambling's
Welcome to The Rig's Rambling's, a podcast, a place and space to be to listen to all things fitness and nutrition. I am Janet Willis your host, a personal trainer and owner operator of The Rig Mobile Functional Fitness. I have a huge passion for movement and helping people to learn how nourishing ourselves with movement and solid nutrition, that can truely enrich our lives.
Episodes
72 episodes
#72 Changing the goal posts
2024 is the year we changed our vision, goals and offers here at The Rig. We shut down our mobile/ group fitness classes and inadvertently started a gym on our farm. Listen to how that came about, what led us there, what visions we have for the...
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Episode 72
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19:53
#71 Is it your metabolism and/or menopause?
How our body responds to how we nourish it can be key to our metabolism. Slow, fast.. is often a response. So how do we know if we have a slow metabolism or if its our whoremoans? I briefly explain what can happen when we reduce our food intake...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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18:25
#70 Dan Jones, Top NZ ultra runner
Dan Jones, a Goats Pass guide by day, runner extraordinaire by ... well all the time actually. Dan is humble, kind and extremely talented as a marathon and ultra distance runner. Six time Kepler winner, 5th place getter Western States and...
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Episode 70
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1:07:31
#69 The hard truth
We can do hard things. But we also may have deeper thoughts and issues at play. Finding the appropriate help and tools to deal with this is pivotal to how well we can move forward and heal. Don't allow past experiences and trauma to continue to...
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Episode 69
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19:44
#68 The person you want to be is inside of you
Why aren't you letting that person have a crack at being you? You can't be the person you want to be if you're constantly shoving yourself in a box. Let go and go get it... you can and are the person you want to be... just nourish yoursel...
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Episode 68
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13:59
#67 What to do when it stops working
Today we chat about what you can do when you hit a plateau or if you hit a wall with your training and or nutrition. Having the right tools to implement can really assist you to stay on target to your goals and work through the times when thing...
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Episode 67
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18:09
#66 Imposters Syndrome
Imposters syndrome hits me hard and I really have to navigate around it, to put myself out where it is I want to be with my business. Have you experienced it? Today I chat about how imposters syndrome may be hindering you from reaching your goa...
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Episode 66
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12:17
#65 Slim Annie Part 2
In this episode we chat with my dear sister from another mister and mother.. Annie. We are a year post podcast about her journey through weight loss surgery and now at 18 months post we find out where Annie is. What she has learned, how h...
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Episode 65
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1:25:02
#64 The October Steps Challenge
For the month of October, I held a steps challenge for anyone wanting to increase their steps. On the line was $150 Rig Dollars.. and man what a blast it was to watch. I chat about what I learned from those whom took part, patterns I saw formin...
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Episode 64
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22:39
#63 The $1000 diet and box of pills
In todays podcast I chat about diets that cost a fortune and if they're really worth their money. The diet worth the most is one that you can sustain and stick to.. so what red flags do we need to look for, when trying to find the right o...
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Episode 63
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24:22
#62 It's not the flash shit that you have to worry about
So what do you have to worry about? This episode we chat about ditching the flashy commercialised bullshit and taking up exactly what it is that will get you to where it is you want to be.
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Episode 62
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17:12
#61 Do it scared
Bit afraid of the unknown? We all are truth be told. But you will be doing so many things in today's current climate that scares you shitless.. so if you can do that, you can also do things to improve your health.. we chat about why and how you...
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Episode 61
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19:28
#60 Women's Health with Emma
On todays podcast I chat with Emma my client and fav nurse practitioner about women's health. Whats lacking, what is available and how it's improving hence forth. We dive into cholesterol and blood pressure and with two busy brains like o...
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Episode 60
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1:07:01
#59 The Divorce List
In this episode I chat about the divorce list that Brendan and I have, how it came about and what the list consists of. It's a way of having boundaries when someone like me, has a do to list that makes others want to faint.....
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Episode 59
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18:53
#58 Is patience killing your time?
Or lack there of? We didn't get to where we are currently overnight, so why do we have such high and fast expectations of where we want to be? In today's episode we talk about managing our impatience so we can deal with the time it is going to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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13:44
#57 Stop looking for success in shitty situations
Coz it won't work. If you find yourself in the pantry every night eating all the things, I explain in this episode exactly why that is and why it keeps repeating itself.
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Episode 57
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15:00
#56 Why won't you give yourself your best shot?
We can loathe change all we like, but to get to somewhere we've never been, we have to do something we've never done. Learning how to manage change for the positive is key to being able to sustain it.
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Episode 56
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14:53
#55 Interview with Phoebe Crosbie on the power of sleep
You do not want to miss this episode.. even more so if you think you have a handle on your sleep. It is woefully under rated and under estimated how important sleep is for our everyday decision making and happiness. I always get my clients to r...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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1:01:43
#54 Going from the dieter to the eater
It can be incredibly challenging to acknowledge that diet culture has you by the short and curlies and even more so to move on from it and become an eater as such. I chat today about how that could look for you, how hard it can be to change min...
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Episode 54
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25:56
#53 Birthday week and Cake
Life is too short to not eat the cake. In today's episode we talk about how to manage our behaviour and thought processes around cake and our management of our expectations around social events.
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Episode 53
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14:26
#52 What you need to do with your nutrition and exercise
I can guarantee you it isn't keto, fasting or fuckery. Listen in to how you may be able to improve your nutrition and training and just why some of the things you've done in the past, haven't worked.
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Episode 52
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20:39
#51 How are you talking to yourself?
Stuck in a Debbie Downer shituation with no way forward? Maybe reflect on how you are talking to yourself and what you can possibly change so that the negative cycle you're in, can be improved.
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Episode 51
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15:22
#50 Interview with Nicky Bisley
Not a great day for the internet or cell cover so sound quality is not fantastic but she'll do...Today we interview Nicky whom herself has ran some incredible miles, but more so as a crew member for her husband Biz, whom has a hankering...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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1:04:50