Mike leads a shoulder-focused arm workout for entrepreneurs, emphasizing that physical fitness builds the discipline needed for business success. He walks through two rounds of dumbbell flies, front raises, military presses, and Chinese push-ups, stressing form and consistency over perfect technique. The core message: effort and showing up matter more than having a unique idea.
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 ten days off, so about once, sometimes twice a year. I'll take off a week to two weeks from working out. I think that restoration is important for our body. I went on a hiking trip, so I was doing lots of hiking and so forth, but no 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 I think I go 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. And 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 touch my side. There's too much relaxation there. So I stopped back here as a 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're going to do 12 and 15.
Now.
I'm going to do a slightly lighter way of doing 10 pounders. I'm just going straight in front of me again, straight back is in of front important. And do 12 of these.
So 1, 2, 3, 4.
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 the 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 to do 50s. I don't know if rest is necessarily 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 look into that with a professional trainer if that rest recovery.
Is important to you.
Okay, Here we go. 5. I think 6, 7.
Again straight back.
8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16.
Okay, I don't even hear my bench. Sounds clean. Now we go into military and then we're gonna ended with I think all Chinese push ups. Let's do some military. These 25ers. I injured my shoulder at some point and it's been bugging me. So I was using 35s with this. 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 get 4, right?
5.
If you're using less weight, just move slower. I think it's fine. 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, 15. Comes 10, 10, 11, 12.
Mushrooms always go a little bit further.
30, 40.
I think the burning is a mind game. Like there's a certain point the body wants to quit, but I'm sorry, the mind wants to quit before the body wants to quit. So when you feel that burn, your head's telling your mind saying, stop. You can still get more out of it. Still go, all right.
Chinese push ups, I think those are called. Basically, it's like a downward dog, and I'm not doing a good form up.
Downward dog. That's a little better.
But 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 with your shoulders is a little better for 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's pretty weak here, but I'm feeling it. Okay, that's round one. I took my flip flops up. Usually nice workout barefoot. No reason.
Just do.
Okay, back to flies. 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. Try and keep my back straight. Try to prevent swinging them even though I am swinging.
7, 9, 10, 11, 13.
5. Swinging. Cheating.
5.
But my burning like heck of my shoulders. So I consider that a successful. 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.
Burning sensation.
Oh, my gosh. Does that hurt in a burning way? Not in a injury way. That's what you want. Shoulder shrugs. You kind of a position here.
Hold it down, hold it down.
Turn the other way.
Hold it down. 3, 4, 1, 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 they use this as their area to do stuff like that. All right, let's go on the 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. My God. Oh. It's funny, when I watch trainers, these workouts, they don't complain, they don't whine me. 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. Four, five.
Oh, my gosh.
Six, seven, eight, nine.
Wow. What I love about working out is we can all achieve a transformation for ourselves. You can do 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. What 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 that pain and seeing results which 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. I gotta keep going. Your cheapos. Just pure shoulders.
Ah, my gosh.
And that's all I got.
All right, there you go, my friends. Two 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 entrepreneur's rule.
