My fitness testing results

I came top 5 in every fitness test my hockey team ran last week.

And I was top 1 in both my lateral bounds (left and right).

I hadn’t trained for any of it.

And here’s why I’m telling you this:

Two weeks ago, I tested my squat, bench and deadlift for a one rep max, then followed it with a 5km time trial.

That’s been my main focus lately.

Becoming a hybrid athlete, someone who can move heavy loads and also run well, rather than being brilliant at one and average at the other.

A few days later, my hockey team ran its own fitness testing.

I hadn’t built my training around any of it.

No plyometric work, no specific push up training, none of the drills that usually show up on a hockey testing day.

I came top 5 in every single test.

I genuinely didn’t expect that.

I’d been narrowly focused on strength numbers and a running time, not on being explosive sideways or pumping out reps of push ups.

But the standard I’d been building toward wasn’t really about any one test.

It was about becoming a more complete athlete, and a more complete athlete performs better across the board, even in the tests she never trained for directly.

This is the part most people miss when they plan their training.

If you train to pass a specific test, you get good at that specific test and often nothing else.

If you train to become a certain kind of athlete, capable, resilient, well-rounded, the tests start passing themselves, including ones you never saw coming.

I don’t train for tests.

I train to become a certain kind of athlete.

The scores are just the byproduct of the standard.

They were never the target, and chasing them directly would have narrowed me instead of building me.

This is the same principle I coach inside High Performance Human.

Health markers, energy, body composition, all of it responds the same way.

Chase the number and you get a narrow, fragile version of progress.

Build the standard and the numbers move as a side effect, often in places you weren’t even looking.