ZM Strong like Bull training log (Tactical Barbell training log)

[ZMFitness]

Today was very active. I spent a lot of time outside.

The rest of the consumptions from all this day
3 packets Cream of Wheat
2 cups whole milk
1 bottle coca cola
1.25 cups pasta
8 oz ground beef
1/8 cup sauce
3/4 apple
1/8 cup macadamia nuts
1 packet raisined strawberries

Complete days total: 2568 Kcal, 91g fat, 289g carbs, 145g protein

I will drink 2 cups of milk to get some more calories and protein. I burned plenty today

I watched Narnia the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe (BBC), Man. I had much higher expectations. Horrible. I can tell the books were great but the movie sucked.

[ZMFitness]

Todays been good so far.

Workout this morning:
50 jumping jacks
High knees 25 meters
20 pushupz
High Knees 25 meters
50 jumping jacks
Butt Kicks 25 meters
20 pushups
Butt Kicks 25 meters
50 jumping jacks
10 pushups
32 lunges each side (50m)
100 meters skipping
I think I did a little bit more but that’s basically what I did.

Breakfast:
2 eggs
3 oz ground beef
1 protein flapjack power cup
1/4 cup milk
----Total: 636 Kcal, 29g fat, 42g carbs, 51g protein

Lunch
1 wrap with chicken lettuce tomato cheese
----Total: 455 Kcal, 23g fat, 29g carbs, 31g protein

Snack:
1 fried chicken thigh
1 fried chicken wing
1 cup orange juice
1/8 cup macadmia nuts
1 pack raisined cherry
1 slice pumpking bread
----Total: 832 Kcal, 42g fat, 82g carbs, 33g protein

For a project in English, I’m doing an essay where the goal is to try to convince the teacher my viewpoint. Im doing it on how trumps tariffs are indeed working (I think they are working, albeit a little slow; Ive seen an increase of ads for american owned/smaller business (that aren’t apart of the large business conglomerates as far as I know)

Knees been hurting today. Its from either the workout or yesterdays hours of outdoor activity (involved sporadic running and sprinting)

Tomorrow for my science thing Im bringing in 6 species of mosses that I can look at under the microscope. Very exciting for me.

[T3hPwnisher]

I really like that morning workout. Way to get after it.

[ZMFitness]

Yeah. I enjoyed it. I will probably plan out a more structured workout though, this was just on the whim. Was good though.

On another note. I can’t find much evidence that Trump’s tariffs are actually increasing the amount of manufacturing jobs in the US. Not yet, anyways. I anticipate that next year when things have been going on for long enough, companies will be able to make their moves to the US, which will then increase the amount of jobs (Im hoping for the rebirth of the rust belt area industry)

I also hope next year the weather is better for growing crops. Weather was awful this year (atleast in my area). Raining on and off for days, a few days of sun, more rain. Was like that a lot of spring and earlier summer. Horrible for the plants. Our tomatoes have been green for 4 months!

[ZMFitness]

Dinner:
2 hotdogs
2 rolls
1/4 cup beans
1 medium potato’s worth of potato
1 pack of beef jerky
----Total: 841 Kcal, 34g fat, 98g carbs, 38g protein

Days total: 2764 Kcal, 129g fat, 250g carbs, 153g protein

Could have done better, oh well.

Tomorrow is my strength training day. Oh! this is a tough week so I get to go easier on cardio. Il have to calculate my new training weights. This is week 9, so this and 3 more weeks until I’m done with Operator+Black. This is has been great so far. Strength is definitely up. Pistol squats are easy. I can do a 1 arm pushup, I can do 10 pullups pretty easily. Its amazing.

On week “13” I have my rest and Retest week. Will see all my strength improvements. I feel confident I’m going to have much better numbers. I think Il be able to do 225 for squat, maybe. 185 for bench hopefully.

I never did my third workout last week. I never got around to it. Oh well.

Today is great. Tomorrow will be greater than today because it will.

[ZMFitness]

Im getting sick of the internet. Nothing good anymore. So much right-wing biased stuff. I want to start my own news thing. The problem is I wouldn’t know where to get my information from. I can’t trust a thing online.
Once I finish Operator+Black, I’m outta here. I need to distance myself from the internet. Im filing a restraining order on Google! Lol.

[T3hPwnisher]

I will miss seeing your Mass Protocol phase.

I don’t read/watch the news myself. With poli-sci for my undergrad and masters, I don’t really see a need.

[ZMFitness]

I don’t read/watch it often myself, but when I do I like having facts. And it seems like there is a deficit of facts, which is making mainstream media lose credibility.
And not even with news, there’s so much AI generated stuff out there, it draws me away from the internet. I hate AI, because it makes the brain less capable of thinking for itself. All these things where it will “help” you write your essay/application/etc, if AI is writing it for you, YOUR not doing anything. Your just being lazy. Don’t have the time? should have though about that before doing it.

Yeah, I do want to track it here but Its hard to focus sometimes. Although, I could use the one blocker I have to stop myself from wasting time looking at other articles here. I will feel it out at the time, I suppose.

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October 21 2025 , W9D2 Strength Day

Im figuring out how to format stuff here now.

Was difficult to wake up today, eyes were very heavy. Im up though!
Today I have my science thing, I will need to remember to bring my six moss specimens.

About 5 minutes until breakfast

[T3hPwnisher]

but when I do I like having facts

That’s not what the news is. It’s entertainment. It doesn’t survive by relaying facts: it survives by getting views. And it gets views by giving the audience what it wants.

Understand that most of the things we dislike in society are, in fact, a mirror reflecting ourselves. The news wouldn’t be terrible if the people watching it weren’t terrible. These are simply businesses. They’re doing what it takes to survive and make money. If the majority of the people wanted informed, unbiased facts, that’s EXACTLY what the news would produce. That’s clearly NOT what is in demand.

I hate AI, because it makes the brain less capable of thinking for itself.

I think you’d really enjoy reading Schopenhauer. I wish I did when I was your age. He’s pretty easy to approach, despite having written in the 1800s.

[ZMFitness]

Yeah, that makes sense. It is similar to an algorithm, like YouTube or TikTok. It doesn’t matter if its good or not, if it gets the attention its gonna spread it. It seems its up to individual people to gather the truth of what’s going on. One thing I’ve noticed though; If I don’t follow the news… nothing changes in my life. Everything is the same. Of course, its likely good to check to news to see what’s going on, but atleast for me, its the same today as it was yesterday.

Il check out his works. I’ll see if the library has any books of his. Currently the book I am reading has “The Discourses of Epictetus”, which I’m currently on, and also “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”. I haven’t been great at continuing to read the book, I need to read more. I am enjoying it so far. I do enjoy reading, I just need to allott myself time for it.
(Is that how you spell the verb meaning to allocate? allott? Or is it allot?)

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Today was okay. School was meh, didn’t feel great. College-school was great. I examined 3 types of Moss under the microscope. Wonderful. I took some great pictures. I will upload them here sometime tonight.

Breakfast:
3 large eggs
2 oz ground beef
1 Jimmy Dean sandwich sausage egg and cheese croissant
1/2 apple
----Total: 792 Kcal, 47g fat, 43g carbs, 48g protein

Workout: This was a bit funky.

OHP
45 x 5
65 x 3
80 x 1
nope. thats not right. I don’t think I calculated right (I didn’t calculate just added weight)
75 x 2
75 x 2
75 x 2

Pullups
12.5lb x 3
20 x 3
20 x 3
20 x 3

Squat
95 x 6
115 x 6
135 x 5
155 x 3
180 x 3
180 x 3
Hmm. This felt too easy. Oh, that’s why. Im supposed to be doing a bit more.
205 x 3
205 x 3
205 x 3

Assistance:
10 archer pushups
10 side squats
50lb face pull x 12
Trap bar shrugs 185 x 20
Front Bar shrug 185 x 20
Back bar shrugs 185 x 20
20 Scapular pullups

The pump looks great lol. Checked myself out in the mirror. I shouldn’t be doing that though, it just inflates my ego and makes me feel bigger than I am (Which is nothing but a speck)

Snack
1 ensure nutrition shake
----Total: 220 Kcal, 6g fat, 32g carbs, 9g protein

Lunch
1 wrap with a skimpy amount of ham, with cheese lettuce tomato (these used to have like twice the amount… what the pork?
1 juice box (forgot water bottle)
----Total: 425 Kcal, 14g fat, 53g carbs, 20g protein

Snack+Dinner: Ugh. Its what mom made… scrambled eggs were good though.
1 cup honey bunched of oats
1 cup milk
2.5 eggs
4 breakfast sausage links
5 pieces of fried spam
3 slices buttered toast with jelly
----Total: 1399 Kcal, 73g fat, 134g carbs, 56g protein

Days total: CRAP.
Days total: 2836 Kcal, 140g fat, 262g carbs, 133g protein

Pitiful. Absolutely dissapointing. I wish mom wouldn’t make so much of the spam and sausage. Its so unhealthy. I don’t mind the eggs or the toast. Its the processed meats I hate. Kielbasa is a good sausage, because its real meal. The breakfast sausages are “meat” (I think it would be better called “meat flavored animal derived product”). And don’t forget SPAM stands for Super Processed American “Meat”

Cold shower soon. Then sleep time.

[ZMFitness]

Sneak peak at some of the stuff im doing. These are the worse photos, the good ones will be uploaded in the morning hopefully.
They are moss specimens under the microscope. The bottom one is low quality, I have better quality photos though. That one was when I was figuring out how to make my phone better. I think I was on the lowest photo quality my phone had. Lol. I wonder how much better my photos are going to be of normal stuff in the future.

[ZMFitness]

October 22 2025 W9D3 Cardio day

Did my workout
50 jumping jacks
25m high knees
12 pushups (would have done 20, but chest was a little bit sore so went a bit easier)
25m high knees
50 jumping jacks
25m butt kicks
12 pushups
25m butter kicks
50 jumping jacks
100m skipping
50m lunges (these were hard to balance. The ground isn’t perfectly flat so that gives it difficulty
12 pullups (wow that’s a good number for me!)
4 pullups

The stars were beautiful this morning. I saw Orion, Ursa Major, the Pleiades (Im pretty sure), and of course all the thousands of other stars.

Time for breakfast. Gonna eat good, today is the PSAT

[ZMFitness]

Well.
I think I did good on the PSAT. I ran out of time the last section of the math part. Its because of this problem
(x-2)(x+7)(x+k)
--------------------- Find the value of k where the graph has no y intercept
(x-15)(x+k)

Well, I thought that since the (x+k) canceled out, I could just use the rest and graph it. Well, it has a y intercept. No matter what you put, it would have a y intercept.
WELL. That’s where Im wrong. You have to set the x equal to zero (for the y intercept), and with the given options, the answer is 0. Since x and k is equal to zero, bottom would then have a 0 to multiply by, and since that would mean a division by zero error, x=0 would have no solution, which means no y intercept. Argh. I should have just plugged it in by hand instead of the desmos calculator (it didn’t show undefined value).

[ZMFitness]

Ugh. I got my protein in for the night, and we had a decently healthy dinner. Im too tired to track everything. I’ve been stuck on a problem for about 45 minutes… I asked chatgpt for the answer. I WAS RIGHT 30 MINUTES AGO ITS JUST A STUPID DECIMAL. I have a few more problems but I need to sleep. Tomorrow… Oh! tomorrow I have strength I need my rest. What else. Science program! And math and physics. ay… gotta get to bed. Im about to fall asleep typing this I briefly am paused of all my motor controls and then snap back to it. Mind is empty. I feel like everything and nothing at the same time. Tomorrow more homework, martial arts club is canceled tomorrow because teacher has bus duty. So I can do some of my homework then. Gives me some time to prepare too. I should like to do… something… plan! Thats it. Plan something. What to bring. Papers! something. Goodnight.

[ZMFitness]

October 23rd 2025: W9D4 Strength Day (Core assistance)
I’ve been slacking with my core work, so I think its good that I’m doing this today.
I think I might as well actually calculate the weights im doing for my lifts.

Squat: 205 x 3
OHP: 85lbs, apparently. We will see.
Pullups: +20lbs x 3

Three more weeks after this week until Il test my maxes. I know I’ve gotten stronger, Its obvious. Il be able to test squat again too which is great. Last time I had that calf injury thing

Get to come home for a bit before going to my science thing, so that will be useful. I can do a bit of homework to lighten my load when I finish it tomorrow. Il have more free time.

Time for breakfast.

[ZMFitness]

Breakfast:
3 eggs
4 oz chicken breast
some filini noodles
----Total: 553 Kcal, 19g fat, 31g carbs, 60g protein

Snack
1 ensure
----Total: 220 Kcal, 6g fat, 32g carbs, 9g protein

Lunch:
1 Italian wrap
1 juice box
----Total: 493 Kcal,19g fat, 53g carbs, 24g protein

Snack:
some filini noodles in water with chicken seasoning (chickenless chicken soup)
----Total: 76 Kcal, 1g fat, 15g carbs, 3g protein

Dinner:
1 double cheeseburger with bacon
30 fries
4 oz chicken breast
----Total: 1433 Kcal,74g fat, 98g carbs, 91g protein

Days total: 2775 Kcal, 119g fat, 229g carbs, 187g protein

Not bad. Only a little over calorie wise.

I had that not-soup because when I got home I only had about 15 minutes to get ready to leave for the science event.

Today was good. Took more photos of the moss. The shipment of some of the stuff we needed arrived, so I can use it next week.

I’m probably going to be sick soon. I have a sore throat on the left side, and feel it in the left side of my nose also. Happened after I coughed earlier. Advice for how I should approach my training given being sick? I will have strength on Monday. Depending on how I feel tomorrow I might skip my cardio workout.

I feel the sickness coming on. Or I’m just tired from the day.

[T3hPwnisher]

You can just pause the training while sick and resume it when you feel better.

[ZMFitness]

October 24 2025 W9D5

Im not doing cardio. I think i can push through the day mentally, and thats about it. This sickness feels like its going to be brutal.

nooo… i better feel better by tomorrow (i know im not). I atleast better feel like im not dying(like i soon will be feeling) by monday, thats a reasonable expectation.

I think mom and I have the same bug.

Not sure of today’s schedule when I get home, but tomorrows schedule is going to look something like:
Wake up
Eat
Rest
Eat
Rest
Eat
Rest
Sleep.
That will be about it.

One thing with when im sick is I HATE sweet food. It tastes decent but it makes my sore throat worse. Honey is the exception due to its antimicrobial properties, so that can kill the sickness

[ZMFitness]

hhhhhhhh
I feel I am dying… I see time the beginning the past the present the future the end. Im getting messed up because of this sickness.

I feel the end passin’ by. This is the end of all things. We are not at the end of the end, but we are very close. The start of the end was with The Crucifixion. We are in the great apostasy. Have been a few thousand years. But not everyone has fallen away. Even among the ashes do the flames shine forth. I see the tragedy of the world’s falling and the glory that is to come of the Lord. I see the ashes and the despair and the hope.

Never lose hope. The time Is now to preach. Among the few who are of the true faith, they are the beacons of light in the world, and the flames in the ash is where the fallen see but do not comprehend, neither in the true light do they comprehend, as with the hearing of many and understanding of few.

Just as Moses led the israelites from captivity in Egypt, so has the Lord Jesus Christ delivered us from being captives of sin. And Christ has sealed the new covenent with His Flesh and His Blood, which have saved us, and have put Him in us, and us in Him.

And as the crossing of the sea, walking through it to the land beyond of hope and of the promised land, so has Jesus Christ’s baptism of The Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit delivered us from the burdens of our sin, and has washed us that we may be worthy of his Kingdom.

Oh, how I long for the baptism of both Water and Spirit!

Behold, the time is at hand. Repent, for the time is passing away, and the world with it, but Life in the Lord remains for ever. Amen

[ZMFitness]

Food

Breakfast:
1 pack beef jerky
some honey
pumpkin bread
tea
----Total: 271 Kcal, 7g fat, 38g carbs, 15g protein

Lunch
1 sandwich with turkey and cheese
----Total: 427 Kcal, 14g fat, 42g carbs, 30g protein

Snack:
1 cup milk
some grain cereal (““healthy””(not) )
1 chicken biscuit sandwich
2/3 cup milk
1 pack cream of wheat
1/2 tbsp honey
1 small tub pringles
a bit of fudge
----Total: 1030 Kcal, 38g fat, 140g carbs, 35g protein

Need 972 Kcal and 70g protein left.

Don’t want to eat. I hope dinner is easy to eat.

I feel so lazy not doing anything but I need to rest…