Unbelievable dedication.

If you haven’t heard of him before, Mike O’Hearn is a man to be respected. He’s been an athlete his entire life and has the credentials to prove it. Winning multiple natural bodybuilding competitions as well as being a proclaimed judo and taekwondo specialist, O’Hearn has garnered a great deal of respect within the fitness world for his accomplishments.

Gaining mainstream popularity after his stint in the original American Gladiators, O’Hearn has gone on to be not only a respected fitness icon, but an actor as well. Making numerous television and film appearances, the Kirkland Washington native has left his mark on bodybuilding in more ways than one. Despite having the massive size and strength that many people link to steroid use, O’Hearn has gone on the record to say that he has never taken a performance enhancing drug and that those who misjudge simply don’t understand how he can have such an impressive physique.

If you let Mike O’Hearn tell it, there’s one key factor that sets him apart, the same factor that has made him into the man he is today. Dedication. Too many times people right off a person getting great gains as being a juice-head, a steroid abuser. To O’Hearn utilizing performance enhancers is akin to being lazy. He says that those who decide to use performance enhancers just don’t have the work ethic he’s acquired through years of dedication and sacrifice.

It’s true that work ethic can carry you a long way when it comes to bodybuilding. In fact, without an extreme amount of dedication, it’d be pretty unlikely that you could make it in bodybuilding. It’s a fact that if you want to see some serious gains, on steroids or not, then you have to be willing to work hard. Yet still there are many people that doubt Mike O’Hearn’s ability to build a body like the one he has without the use of steroids. If the video below is any indication, O’Hearn possesses a work ethic to be admired. O’Hearn trained with physique competitor Sergi Constance over at Gold’s Gym, the both of them working chest. Take a look.

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