Max restarted his training routine and immediately noticed that something felt off after not training for about a week.
Although he was doing the same exercises and the same drills that he was familiar with, his gains became much faster as every few hours he could hear a stat increase.
Max was pleasantly surprised to see that after taking a week off from exercising to focus on the tournament had got him extremely motivated and in the correct mindset to train as now training under a time constraint saw his results improve by a mile.
With a clear goal in mind, Max felt slightly more pressured and focused on his task which somehow polished his movements a little more than his training a week ago.
It seemed like training for a reason gave him the ' X ' factor boost.
Even Drax who was usually very vocal about Max's faults during training was surprisingly calm during the days as he rarely corrected Max's form on anything.