59. Why You Should Train Hard and Be Stubborn About Your Goals: Interview with Dana Linn Bailey
The Kris Gethin Podcast
Kris Gethin
4.9 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Knowledge and Mileage, Kris talks to first IFBB physique pro in history, Dana Linn Bailey.
Until the Physique category came along there were only two other female categories: Figure and Bodybuilding. When Dana stepped on the competition stage all that changed and she championed a stronger, more muscular physique for females. Now, she owns a gym, a clothing line, and a supplement line.
Tune in to hear Dana's story and why she thinks no matter your gender or size you should train your face off.
Time Stamps
- Dana's athletic background [1:51]
- How Dana got into weight lifting [2:54]
- How Dana got into competing [7:22]
- How Dana trains and how her training style developed [11:40]
- "If I could do more reps why would I stop shy of hitting failure?" [12:02]
- Why Dana trains [13:33]
- Female weight training and how that has evolved over the years [15:55]
- What is next for Dana and Rob in the entrepreneurial space [34:44]
- Should females train different than males? [37:24]
- Reasons Dana is following an intermittent fasting diet right now [39:48]
- Dana's advice for people who want to make a living in the fitness industry [47:47]
- One thing Dana would change if she could go back in time [52:00]
Featured guest: Dana Linn Bailey
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the knowledge and mileage podcast. So we are in Montana doing this |
| 0:07.6 | podcast now. We just left from having a back workout with the person who sat opposite next to me. |
| 0:15.1 | And that person sat opposite next to me is DLB. Donna Lynn Bailey. What's up? |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, Donna. Donna. Donna. Donalyn Bailey. He's the only person that can't say my name. me is DLB Donna Lynn Bailey what's up yeah Donna Donna |
| 0:21.7 | Donna and Bailey he's the only person I can't say my name no I can say it but I |
| 0:26.9 | just say it the way that I say it you refers Donna yeah Dana Dana I don't know |
| 0:32.6 | it's Donna but we'll I like Donna yeah Donna I make it sound like that. So I'm Dailin Bailey. |
| 0:38.3 | It says a little bit about yourself. |
| 0:41.3 | I don't even know. |
| 0:42.3 | It's so weird because I, is it weird? |
| 0:45.3 | Like I don't like to live in the past. |
| 0:48.3 | So things that I've done prior, which are very important things. |
| 0:52.3 | Like I feel like that doesn't say like who I am as a person, which is weird. |
| 0:57.1 | But former 2013 Miss Olympia, owner of Flanger Fail, Run Everything Labs. |
| 1:06.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:07.4 | I feel like I am who I am and it's not by like titles. |
| 1:11.6 | So it's like, who are you? I'm like, I'm Dana and Bailey. |
| 1:15.6 | That's it. That's it. That's all. That's it. |
| 1:18.6 | So I'm going to have to prompt the questions here to dive a little deeper then. |
| 1:22.6 | Okay, so... |
| 1:23.6 | I feel weird talking about... I think it's because I feel weird talking about myself. |
| 1:30.5 | Well, that's going to make this interview suck. |
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