All About Women's Bodybuilding, and What Happens When Your Picture Goes Viral on Social Media with Koko King — Muscle Maven Radio Episode #4

Barbell Shrugged

Doug Larson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Koreena King (aka Koko) has been in the bodybuilding world for less than a decade, but has made a name for herself in her native Ontario with her in-depth knowledge of the bodybuilding world, as well as her posing coaching and competition makeup skills. She's worked as a posing coach and makeup artist in the industry for years.

We're all a part of the social media community, consuming and observing trends, online behavior, and interaction. The fitness community online can be especially harsh, with plenty of judgement to go around (from your form, to the way you look, to the validity of your accomplishments, and more). But have you ever stopped to think about how you would feel if a picture of you went viral, shared on dozens of accounts with tens of thousands of people commenting on your appearance? My guest today, Koreena King, is a bodybuilder who dealt with this very thing. We discuss what it's like to get hundreds of comments and messages a day (many of them kind, but many of them extremely abusive), what it's like to look different from the "typical norm" even within the bodybuilding community and how to maintain a strong sense of self in an increasingly superficial online world, and we deep dive into women's bodybuilding in general: the different categories, what it's like to train and compete, drug use, and much more.

Enjoy!

-Ashleigh

Minute Breakdown:

6 – 29 A chat about competitive women's bodybuilding: different categories, conditioning, competition, judging, and posing

29 - 42 – Koko's personal journey with competition prep, diet, experience with contest prep drugs or "gear" like Anavar, Winstrol and others, including side effects

42 - 56 - Koko's story about her picture going viral, and how she dealt with it being shared dozens of times and commented on by tens of thousands of people; a larger discussion about the psychology behind social media

56 – How we can develop a strong sense of self offline in an industry (and world) where we live so much of our lives on social media; and how to develop empathy for people on social media, even the ones leaving nasty comments!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Muscle Mavin Radio. I am your host, Ashley Van Halton, aka
0:08.4	the only chick host currently on the Shrug Collective Network. That's how you can tell me
0:13.1	apart because my voice is a couple octaves higher, I think. Anyway, today is a very fun
0:19.7	episode for me personally. I hope for you as well because we're talking about a subject and a
0:24.7	sport that I am very invested in and that is bodybuilding. I competed in natural amateur bodybuilding
0:31.7	in the figure category for a number of years, had a fair bit of success and a lot of fun with it.
0:36.4	And as someone who is basically obsessed with Arnold Schwarzenegger and World Strongest Man
0:42.3	and American Gladiator since I was a kid, I guess you could just say I've kind of always had
0:46.2	a thing for muscles. And I like bodybuilding because it's just a fun experiment. You get to witness
0:51.9	your body grow and see the changes that you can make with hard work and dedication and you get
0:57.6	to play with tweaks and changes with different diets and workouts, see how your body reacts and
1:03.9	just grows with years of consistent weightlifting. And to some people that sounds like an actual nightmare,
1:10.5	but to me it's fun. And unless you're professionally bodybuilding, you can do this in conjunction
1:15.1	with other sports. Like I've played with CrossFit and Powerlifting and Jiu Jitsu and all kinds of fun
1:20.8	stuff while still also training like and considering myself a bodybuilder. But of course the sport
1:27.7	is more complicated than just my personal account of it. There's a lot more to it. And I just
1:32.6	wanted to have a bro sash about bodybuilding with a fellow lady bro who is as into the sport as I am.
1:39.7	Her name is Karina Coco King. She's kind of a big deal in the Ontario bodybuilding scene which
1:46.4	as a lot of people may not know, it's actually a pretty big meathead community in Canada. And some
1:50.9	pretty big names came out of Ontario. We're talking then Kulski, Chris Bomstead, like some pretty
1:57.6	jacked aesthetic dudes. Look, I'm going to guess because I actually live here a lot of the time
2:03.6	that it's just because it's so cold for like six months the year that we have nothing better to do,
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