Mike Arone Fitness

"Let's do this shit!"

Ever not feel like going to the gym?

Do you ever spend more energy manifesting a shitty excuse as to why you can’t make it than just getting the hell up and going?

Everyone needs some motivation sometimes…which is why I am here.

Sure, I have tried to make excuses to not go to the gym…but I ultimately sack up and make it there.  Disciplined? Sure. Crazy? Maybe. Motivated? You better fucking believe it!

But how? How do I stay so motivated?

Simple: I address the potential issues and then come up with the motivational solution.

Here are the 5 ways that I motivate myself for those days where I feel like slapping the SNOOZE button and making an excuse worse than time I told my  5^th grade teacher my little brother ate my science project.

I don’t even have a little brother.

So let’s get to it…

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Pro Strongman Dave Mihalov stares off as he visualizes lifting heavy shit as fast as possible.

Do you remember when you were a little kid and your mom was always friggin’ nagging you to “drink your milk!” “finish your veggies!” or “force down my piss-poor attempt at meatloaf that even the dog won’t eat!”?

Remember that?

Why the hell was she always doing that?!?

So you could grow up to be “big and strong” of course!

Well, though it’s doubtful that you actually grew up (sans you still live in the basement of your parent’s house and no one can touch your Def Leppard casette tape collection before cleaning their hands and going back in time), maybe you did get “big and strong”…or so you thought…

Well, I don’t think professional strongman Dave Mihalov’s mom, like you, really knew what “big and strong” meant or maybe that her son would take it so damn literal and become the 2009 American Strongman Corporation (ASC) America’s Strongest Man and onto the ASC Show of Champions 1st place finish at the Europa Show in Orlando this past weekend.

I had a chance to catch up with Dave this past week and got the inside scope on what is takes to make it as a professional strongman…

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He knows the importance of bodyweight exercises...obviously.

I am so pumped for my workout today bro! I am going to bench press my personal best…because that’s all that really matters. Then, I will look at the pull up bar, contemplate an attempt at it, realize I can’t do more than four…and then leave (after I look at myself in the mirror seventy-two times to soak in the sweet pump that I got from doing cable flyes for an hour straight.)

This sound familiar?

I see it all the time. Well, time to check your ego at the door.

Come and take a look at the video I put together for a bodyweight workout that you can perform in the comfort of your own home, bedroom, or dormroom…

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Grocery shopping is something I do every Sunday. It is a MUST…and it blows. I eat a TON of food throughout the week, and having the activity level of Iggy Pop on speed, it is essential that I don’t miss a meal.  Yet, there are sometimes when I just don’t feel like taking my time to get everything on the list.  Sometimes I just break it down to the bare necessities…the stuff I can’t do without. And being that it’s a rough economy, many people are getting the bare necessities every week.

So without further adieu…

Here are my Bare-ASS Essentials that I buy no matter the situation…

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"There it is!"

Let me do this.  Let me pull the latest and greatest bodybuilding magazine off the shelf…preferably the one with the guy on it whose left eyeball literally popped off from flexing his bowling ball-sized bicep so hard. This way I know I am getting the most badass lifting program that I can follow [half ass] until next month’s issue comes out, which will be the same program with a flashy NEW title and a different dude with an even BIGGER forehead squatting a Mini Cooper…

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