Mike leads a shoulder workout for entrepreneurs, covering dumbbell flies, military presses, and band work. The hosts argue that physical discipline directly translates to business success, and that consistency and willingness to push through discomfort matter more than talent or a unique product.
Okay, here's my next exercise video for entrepreneurs.
Your health is everything if you want to crush it in business or any element of your life. Health is always the foundation. I'm just returning from 10 days off, so about once, sometimes twice a year, I'll take off a week to 2 weeks from working out. I think that restoration is important for our body. Um, I went on a hiking trip, so I was doing lots of hiking and so forth, but no, I upper body. Today I'm going to show you some shoulder exercises, so let's get into it. Let me turn on my exercise tracker, and here we go.
So first we're going to do is, uh, I think they're called flies.
This is like—
see, I'm not a professional trainer, so I don't even know the names for it. I use about 15 pounds, and, uh, just make sure you stand particularly straight and you come up roughly shoulder height. Don't go above that. And let's do 12.
So that's 2, 3, 4.
Don't swing, go slow.
5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Don't— I said to my side, there's too much relaxation there. So I stopped back here is the better position.
10, 11, 12.
Now remember, we're entrepreneurs. 13. You never do what you're asked.
14.
You go beyond. 15. Okay, so we were going to do 12 and 15. Now I'm going to do it a slightly lighter weight.
I'm doing 10-pounders.
Thumbs going straight in front of me again. Straight back is important. Important. You can do, uh, 12 of these.
So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Following along with me, that'd be pretty cool.
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
I feel that. I feel it in my back too, in that form. All right, now we do shoulder shrugs. I do very little rest in between. I really don't know. Oops, those are 40s. I want the 50s. Um, I don't know if rest is actually a good thing. I'd rather do a shorter workout time-wise with just continued intensity as opposed to long recovery periods. But you should, uh, look into that with a professional trainer if that rest and recovery is important to you. Okay, here we go. 5, I think.
6.
7. Again, straight back.
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Okay, I don't even hear my bench stops. Now we go into, uh, military, and then we're gonna Ended with, uh, I think, well, Chinese push-ups. Let's do some military. I think it's 25ers. I injured my shoulder at some point and it's been bugging me, so I was using 35s with this, but I've dropped down to 25s. Just form is more important than excessive weight in my opinion. I don't want to put a lot of weight into my joints. 3. I want to get form right. And 5. You're using less weight, just move slower. I think it's 5. Slower with the weights as opposed to kind of racing through, and you'll get that same kind of intensity and burn. A lot of the burn is a mind game. 10.
10, 11, 12.
My shoulders always go a little bit first.
13, 14.
I think the burning is a mind game. Like, there's a certain point that the body wants to quit, but I'm sorry, the mind wants to quit before the body wants to quit. So we feel that burn, you know, that's telling your mind to say stop. You can still get more out of it.
Still go.
All right, Chinese push-ups, I think those were called.
Basically, it's like a downward dog, and, uh, I'm not doing a good form.
Downward dog, that's a little better. Butt high, come down, swoop, come up, and then swoop and push up. And I'm already exhausted. That was a hard one. Do as many as you can.
2, 3.
Really pushing into your shoulders is a little bit better. 4. Some people— another version of this, you can just put your head down, push up, just get pure shoulder. This process of swooping puts a little bit more on the triceps. Okay, my form is not excellent. My form is pretty weak here, but I'm feeling it. Okay, that's round 1.
I took my flip-flops off.
Usually I I just work out barefoot. No reason, just do. Okay, back to flies. Oh, I'll show you something you can do with straps. Most exercises you actually don't need weight. You can do with just your body, so you never have an excuse not to work out. 6. Trying to keep my back straight, trying to prevent swinging on me even though I am swinging.
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Oh, I'm swinging, cheating. Oh, but I'm burning like heck in my shoulders, so I consider that a successful lift. I can feel the cardio. All right, right back into it.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
Oh gosh, I was cheating through the whole thing, swinging. Oh, the burning sensation. Oh my gosh, does that hurt in a burning way, not in an injury way. That's what you want. Shoulder shrugs. Let's get giving you kind of a position here. Hold it down. Hold it down. Turn the other way.
Hold it down. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ah, ah, 12, 13, 14.
My gosh, that hurt. 15. I see there's mud and stuff all over the mat here. Thanks to one of my kids. I'm not sure they did, but, uh, they use this as their area to do stuff like that. All right, just going to press this, and I want to show you something with that band in a second. All right, military press.
1, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13.
Oh my God. Oh. It's funny, when I watch trainers do these workouts, they don't complain, they don't whine.
Me, I'm like, oh, okay.
Now we're going to use— if you have a band, hold it right at your waist level in the center and do— this is another form of flies, so we're going to shorten it up a little bit for more tension.
There we go. 4, 5. Oh my gosh, 6, 7, 8, 9. Ah, ah, ah.
What I love about working out is we can all achieve a transformation for ourselves. You can do it. It doesn't matter what state of exercise you've been experiencing or doing— none, some, a little, whatever— but you can transform yourself through the effort. This does is it starts building a discipline for doing. You know, the biggest determinant of entrepreneurial success is not the quality of your work It's not anything but the effort. It's not the uniqueness of your offering. None of that stuff. All that stuff's factors. It's actually just doing it. Getting it done. The biggest determinant of success is how determined you are to have success.
How committed you are.
And exercise like this, going through the pain, and seeing results will show you Do the exact same thing for your business. Keep working at it and you'll see your business transform. That's the biggest determinant of success. Oh, that was already horrible, but I gotta keep going. Onto your T-Pos, just pure shoulders. Oh my gosh, and that's all I got. All right, there you go, my friends. 2 rounds of shoulder exercises. I gotta keep my workout doing other things.
Go work out right now, get it done, do your exercises, transform yourself, you know, transform your business. All right, every day, you got this. Entrepreneurs rule.
