Where Progress Happens

Growth, development, and performance don’t just rise in a clean, straight line the more you train.

Performance is non-linear.

That means your progress might not show up right away — it might stay hidden for weeks or months, then suddenly appear all at once. The real gains often arrive in boosts and clumps.

Sure, some improvements happen quickly — like getting more comfortable with a new drill or movement pattern. But overall performance, especially as you get older, usually follows a different rhythm.

I’ve trained my bag off for 4–5 months straight — 16 hours a week, fully locked in — and felt like my game hadn’t moved an inch. I’d question it. I’d wonder if anything I was doing was working.

But then, out of nowhere — it hits.

A new level. A gear I didn’t have before. The game feels different, sharper, more in control.

That jump didn’t come out of thin air.

 It was the result of the building phase.

 All the unseen work — the reps, the mental shifts, the nervous system adaptation — created the conditions for that mini-evolution. That’s what non-linear growth really is.

Right now, I’m at a stage where I can be on the ice 10 hours a week for five months and see no big, visible difference in my game. That’s normal. That’s part of it.

But I also know that everything I’m doing — the volume, the intensity, the details — is stacking up. Same for you. 

It’s all contributing to that latent growth that will eventually break through.

That’s why I keep showing up. That’s why I don’t panic when progress hides.

Because when it hits — it changes everything.