P-Zero: Revisiting the GZCL Method

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Born from years of feedback on the GZCL Method and its many evolutions, P-Zero refines and expands that legacy into a flexible training framework. Whether you're a novice or have decades under the bar, P-Zero provides the tools to build a plan that fits your needs, limitations, and goals. 

Inside, you'll find the concepts and structure, as well as several adaptable templates (Prototypes) to be customized by you. Go beyond the Prototype, thinking of more than just sets and reps. They’re starting points to shape your progress, forging yourself as you do. Don’t follow a program. Build one, one rep at a time, and in so doing, build yourself.

P-Zero isn’t strictly powerlifting or bodybuilding. It’s not strict, period. It’s a method designed for those who want more strength, capacity, and skill under the bar. It’s multifaceted for those who want to train like machines, becoming something more through consistent refinement.

Included in this manual:

Example weekly schedules (full-body and split variations)

Pre-built progressions for 3, 6, 9, and 12-week cycles

Guidance on integrating conditioning and cardio (yes, cardio!)

P-Zero is a Prototype. Build your machine (you).

Thanks for your many years of support!

P-Zero, the mech (base model).

Here’s where I’ll nerd out some. One email I received years ago from a young person in their third year of training described planning as building a machine - themselves. Seeing it as a mech, they built their plan and stuck to it. Becoming the machine they imagined.

I, having watched little anime as a teen and much more as a dad, liked this analogy. So, I had to make my own for P-Zero. Maybe it’ll inspire a way to see your training, perhaps making effort, consistency, and patience easier.

Being a military history nerd, mine had to have teeth and tattoos that tell a story, like the fighters of old.

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