Richard Machowicz ("Unleash the Warrior Within") defines the Training Pyramid for building speed in any domain:
1. **Correct Fundamentals**: learn the right way first
2. **Concentration**: focus fully on doing it correctly
3. **Consistency**: repeat correctly, every time
4. **Accuracy**: quality of output improves
5. **Speed**: comes naturally, last
The critical insight: speed is the *output* of mastering the first four levels, not a goal to chase directly. "You don't start by looking for speed and just start moving frantically when untrained — that's not what elite soldiers are doing, and it's not what elite competitors in their field are doing."
The typing analogy: don't type fast while hunting for keys. First learn correct hand positions (fundamentals), concentrate on the right keys, repeat consistently, accuracy improves, and speed follows automatically. The process is irreversible: if you skip fundamentals, you build bad habits that cap your ceiling.
The failure mode: training speed before consistency. You get faster at the wrong thing.
## Related
- [[Black Hawk Down — This Is My Safety]] — trigger discipline as a fundamental: the veteran trusts the drilled basic ("this is my safety") over any advanced mechanism, the fundamentals-first principle in the field
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*Source: [[Pragma]] (Sebastian Marshall, 2017) — Limit Breaks 3 — Actions Per Minute*