Analysis paralysis is very real. All you have to do is go through your Facebook, Reddit, Instagram or Twitter and every single day you are bombarded with all kinds of videos of people doing crazy workout shit. You can get caught in the DO LOOP very easily of frustrated starts/restarts. I’ve trained with weights for…
Author: Mark Munster
A Brown Belt in BJJ and Strength Training coach, I've been training 20+ years to test my human potential.
Co-owner, Poolesville Self Defense
Promoting HW3 Core Values:
HARD WORK: leave nothing to chance. Work hard every minute, every day.
HEROIC WILL: Dig deep. Don't quit. Ever.
HEAVY WEIGHT LIVING: Strive to improve your life and others lives. Lead a life worth living and a legacy worth following.
Starting a Jiujitsu Business & Website
Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it. HEAVYWEIGHTBJJ.COM started in 2015. I spent countless hours in the early morning and late at night thinking through my life-long lessons in strength training and Jiujitsu training to build out content for the website and develop my first training program, the DRILLSKILL Jiujitsu Player workout manual. Also, Poolesville Self…
3 Tools to Improve Your Training Program
Are You Puzzled? How do you intend to reach your BJJ and fitness goals? Train? Think about training? Then Train more? Good start. But what are you going to train? When? Why? How much? With what frequency and intensity? How do you track your progress? Many people get stuck developing their personal program. I’ve written…
Training Intensity
There’s a time and place for everything Time to paint a picture with the time machine.In my late 20’s and throughout my 30’s I focused on doing a TON of weight training.The “Iron bug” bit me before the “jiu-jitsu bug” had!I had to have the moon and stars align like the Ultimate Warrior in order…
Fighting Frankenstein: 2 Mobility Drills for Jiujitsu
I’ve been compared to Herman Munster my whole life (not just for the name). His handsome looks aside, my “stiff as a board” flexibility is an attribute I don’t wear proudly. Enter Phillip Chubb.
Blue Collar Grips
Do you want to have the strongest grip in your academy?Use the tools of the trade of the blue collar worker. The strongest grips I deal with are skilled laborers that work with their hands – plumbers, mechanics, electricians, construction workers, etc.These folks expend an exceptional amount of effort using their hands, wrists, forearms, arm…
Threat Escalation Response Framework
Words Matter The term “Self-Defense” is used to generally describe the tools and techniques that we should use to defend ourselves against acts of aggression, whether they are verbal, physical, or life-threatening. However, word choice matters. Let me illustrate. The words “defend” and “secure” are similar, yet different. Read these definitions and see if you…
Triple Down on Your Strengths
The “A” Game I am a fan of doing what you are good at. We hear a lot of advice on working on our weaknesses, particularly as it pertains to Strength Training and Jiujitsu. I agree with those concepts too – but you need a game-plan to implement this.With JiuJitsu, you need to develop your “A-Game”…
The Skill Life-Cycle
If you’re a software engineer or architect, this may vibe with you. The Skill Life Cycle can be viewed much like the life-cycle of a software product. Following elements of the traditional waterfall and the agile development approaches to software engineering, you can compartmentalize the basic framework for deploying new capabilities to your training and competitive…
5 Steps to Learn Any Technique
The Hamster Wheel We spend a lot of time on the mats training our technique. Most of us spend an appreciable amount of time training off the mats trying to get stronger, faster, more explosive, more flexible and more mobile. However, many of us don’t put the same energy into our out of gym endeavors…
