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#004 - Dan Bailey - Mindset After Not Making It To The CrossFit Games, Current Training Methodology and Why Josh Bridges Is So Dangerous

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.74.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

I sat down with 4 times CrossFit Games Athlete and all round legend Dan Bailey while he was in the UK for Reebok's Nano 8 Launch Event in London.

I was incredibly impressed with how candid, humble and honest he was. He's an exemplary character to the CrossFit community and professional athletes worldwide.

Find out how where his mindset is at after his toughest 2 years of not making it to The Games, why Josh Bridges is the most dangerous man in CrossFit and his approach for fighting an army of tiny horses.

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Like the game is important to me and being that athlete is important to me and being the

0:03.2

fittest man on earth is always something that I've been trying to do trying to

0:06.9

accomplish but there's so many other things that I would like to be remembered for

0:11.0

like if I die and all that's on my gravestone is I hear lies the fittest man on

0:14.8

earth and 20 and whatever I'd be pretty disappointed with myself I think I

0:19.0

would look at that as more of a failure than not making it to the games.

0:30.0

Mr. Tom Bailey. Yeah welcome. Thanks for having me. I'll be feeling in the UK. You good?

0:41.6

You do it? Yeah, yeah. It's my second time here. Not to London. I heard it's the

0:45.4

only place I've ever been in the UK before Manchester, right? Correct. Yeah I was on the

0:49.0

Sam's gym. That train? Yeah, we did a good dude's camp, Josh

0:53.5

Richard and I down there. We had fun. Yeah it was good. Well we spent a lot of time

0:57.0

the gym obviously but so on Instagram yesterday I saw Dave trying to put you off

1:02.4

during a photoshoot. Oh yeah. Have you ever tried to just sort of give him a

1:07.5

little no-show or whatever before he's got a workout or like whisper around

1:10.5

the movements in his ear? We go back and forth every now and then on things like

1:14.5

that but no Dave treats me like a little brother sometimes so I

1:19.8

appreciate it and you know we get that we have fun with it yeah that's cool

1:23.5

it's such a good into placing you guys you're obviously such good friends. Right

1:26.7

and I think that seeing the guys at the pinnacle of the sport that are still so

1:33.1

tight and you can kind of see yourself and the relationships yeah like it's

1:37.5

really really nice and I think that sets a really good example for the

1:40.2

community as well. It's most feeling power-riffing empowering for you guys. Oh

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