Progress isn’t linear. If it was, we’d all be able to roadmap success, follow the plan, and get there. As Dan John, notoriously coined, “Everything works, until it doesn’t”. Expecting that progress will dip and stall can keep you in a forward thinking mindset, able to adjust strategy when needed.

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The younger your training age, the faster you will see the results of your work. If you haven’t done anything and start doing something, you’re automatically at 100% gains. This is why so many people get tripped up on goal setting. All they can imagine is the future of where they want to be. They look only fleetingly at where they started or where they are. They are dishonest in their assessments, and self-preservingly so.

The magic bullet seems to be teenage boys. They have the hormonal profile to make huge progress in a very small amount of time. Their presumption that this trend will continue leads them to jump all over the place with their training. By following ten things they fail to achieve one.