Transcendence with Jack Moses #7 - Connor Burkley - Becoming a Fitness Influencer, Overcoming Social Anxiety, and Growing on Social Media
Connor Burkley is a fitness influencer on Instagram (3.5k) and TikTok (28k). He has been training consistently for 2 years and started posting fitness content on social media in his freshman year of college.
In this episode, Connor and I talk about a wide variety of fitness topics, such as sleep, nutrition, and training splits. We also dive into social media, more specifically the topic of overcoming social anxiety that comes with starting to post, fitness twitter, as well as social media growth.
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Timestamps
Intro
0:37 Why start posting fitness content?
1:38 Overcoming social anxiety
4:30 Initial transformation
6:03 Staying consistent
9:25 Current training split
13:53 Intensity is everything
16:31 Sleep schedule
19:17 Current macronutrients and calories
20:50 Carbs
23:55 Fitness Twitter
28:50 Growing on social media
30:34 Portraying a fake narrative
33:18 How can young people get in the gym
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