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The Secret Life of a Bikini Competitor

Robyn Challands

The Secret Life of a Bikini Competitor Podcast is a weekly show featuring unfiltered conversations with female bodybuilders. Speaking to both pros and amateurs from all different federations and categories, your host Robyn Challands goes behind the layers of tan and sparkly bikinis to find out what it’s really like to be a bikini competitor. No topic is off limits!
Episodes
#56 Daniella Murphy WBFF Fitness: Childhood trauma and building a survivor mentality, manifesting your dreams, post-show binging, posing strugglesJune 30, 2021
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#55 Holly Ouwehand NZIFBB Wellness: Finding a category for your body shape, prepping as a flight attendant, time management tipsJune 23, 2021
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#54 Brooke Hoskin ICN Bikini: PCOS & hormone management, are you cut out for competing? Never competing again to never slowing down! June 02, 2021
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#53 Sarah Collier IFBBNZ Bikini: Prepping in secret, overcoming binge eating, mindful vs. mindless eating and activitiesMay 26, 2021
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#52 GlamFit Bikinis owner, Claire Williamson reveals EVERYTHING you need to know about competition bikinisMay 11, 2021
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#51 Sharnie Cocks ICN Fitness Pro & IFBB Bikini: Overcoming imposter syndrome, recovering from disordered eating, slip ups on stage, managing scoliosisApril 29, 2021
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#50 Courtney McConnell WBFF Bikini: Overcoming shyness, building confidence, powerlifting in your off season, waiting to compete when the time is rightApril 21, 2021
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#49 Jess Johnson IFBB Bikini Pro: overcoming binge-eating & burnout from back to back shows, prepping in the Air Force, managing FOMO April 07, 2021
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#48 Jess Leech WBFF Bikini: Grieving and prepping/competing, prep as a distraction, should you do back to back shows? March 24, 2021
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#47 Tamara Meyer WBFF Bikini Pro: why we love therapy, the power of self-belief, how to manage your ‘off days’, eating out when in prepMarch 10, 2021
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#46: How to embrace your improvement season & necessary weight gain!March 03, 2021
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#45 Belinda Croxford WBFF Figure Pro: Misconceptions of pros, importance of gut health, balance vs. all in, it’s OK to pull out of a show if you’re not ready February 24, 2021
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#44 Dani Antonellos WBFF Bikini Pro: how to PROPERLY train your glutes, injury management and prevention for competitors, why movement is medicineFebruary 10, 2021
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#43 Latoya Caruso WBFF Figure: bikini to fitness to figure in a year, embracing weight gain, dealing with online bullies, making sacrifices, crazy prep brain momentsFebruary 03, 2021
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#42 Naomi Zee-McKillop, WBFF Bikini: how to set and smash your goals, competing won’t fix your issues, unnecessary prep ‘hacks’January 27, 2021
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#41 Holly Baxter-Norton WBFF Fitness Pro: what is evidence-based coaching, importance of diet breaks, planning your reverse, honest truths of prep, negative metabolic adaptationJanuary 20, 2021
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#40 Na’iyma Chew IFBB Bikini Pro: the pro mindset and ‘turning’ pro before winning your card, importance of mindset coaching, helping the ‘lost’ competitorJanuary 13, 2021
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#39: Feel the fear and do it anywayDecember 23, 2020
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#38 Celeste Rains-Turk NPC Bikini: how to develop a healthier relationship with food & body, importance of identity, danger of autopilot, managing the festive season!December 16, 2020
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#37 Nadine Dekleva ICN Sports Model Rookie of the Year 2020: outgrowing binge-drinking culture & turning her life around, what people don’t tell you about competingDecember 09, 2020
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#36 Lisa Kream NPC Bikini: Why Lisa (probably) won’t compete again, releasing control when reversing, repairing food relationships, prepping in the holidaysDecember 02, 2020
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#35 Gabbi Nockles ICN Fitness Pro & IFBB Bikini: Prepping herself, PCOS, how to get the most out of prep & what you need to DO before startingNovember 25, 2020
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#34 Anjuli Mack WBFF Bikini: loving food & still achieving fitness goals, food obsession post show, recovering menstrual cycles, evolving & learning each prepNovember 18, 2020
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#33 Alana Coomer AWNBS Fitness PRO: you don’t need to suffer to compete, bodybuilding will not fix mental health issues, Spondylolisthesis, reverse dieting 101November 11, 2020
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#32 Jessica Mahoney ICN Bikini: psychiatric nursing in an ED clinic while competing, reverse diet tips, training on holiday, advice for first timersNovember 04, 2020
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