Hi everyone. I thought I would post something about Zero Point (ZP) listening schedules and the number of loops in a 21 day listening cycle. This was inspired by the one question thread about ZP schedules & days count.
I cover each case as shown in the ZP listening guidelines.
Note that is a long post.
ZP Listening Patterns & Number Of Loops
This section is long and detailed. If you’d like, you can scroll down to the summary table for the number of loops in a 21 day listening cycle for a ZP stack.
In the listening patterns, it is 3 titles maximum if at least one of the 3 titles is a Zero Point title. The listening days are on Days 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 21. These are odd numbered days.
The rest days occur on even numbers which are Days 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20.
After day 21, take five days off for a washout period. The washout days are Days 22, 23, 24, 25, 26. Another 21 day cycle would occur after Day 26.
One ZP Title Only
In each listening day you play the single ZP title at 1 loop or 2 loops.
- Day 1: ZP Title (One loop or Two)
- Day 2: Rest
- Day 3: ZP Title (One loop or Two)
- Day 4: Rest
- Day 5: ZP Title (One loop or Two)
and so on until Day 21.
Over the 21 days the number of loops played for the single ZP title is 11 loops (11 x 1) minimum or 22 (11 x 2) loops maximum.
Two ZP Titles Only Stack
In a listening day, it is one loop for each ZP title.
- Day 1: ZP Title #1, ZP Title #2
- Day 2: Rest
- Day 3: ZP Title #1, ZP Title #2
- Day 4: Rest
and continue until Day 21.
The total number of loops in this 21 day period is 22. ZP Title #1 gets 11 loops and ZP title #2 gets 11 loops.
One ZP & One Qv2 Stack
Day 1: ZP title (1 or 2 loops)
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: Qv2 Title One Loop
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: ZP title (1 or 2 loops)
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: Qv2 Title One Loop
Day 8: Rest
and so on.
ZP Listening days are on days 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21. The Qv2 listening days are days 3, 7, 11, 15 and 19.
The number of Qv2 loops is 5. For the number of loops for the ZP title here it is 6 minimum or 12 maximum.
The total number of loops in this stack is 11 minimum or 17 maximum.
Two ZP Titles & One Qv2 Title
Day 1: ZP Title #1 One Loop, ZP Title #2 One Loop
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: Qv2 Title One Loop
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: ZP Title #1 One Loop, ZP Title #2 One Loop
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: Qv2 Title One Loop
Day 8: Rest
and so on.
ZP Listening days are on days 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21. The Qv2 listening days are days 3, 7, 11, 15 and 19.
In the 21 day period ZP Title #1 gets 6 loops, ZP Title #2 gets 6 loops and the Qv2 Title gets 5 loops. A total of 17 loops.
Two Qv2 & One ZP Title
Day 1: ZP Title
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: Qv2 Title #1 x1, Qv2 Title #2 x1
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: ZP Title
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: Qv2 Title #1 x1, Qv2 Title #2 x1
Day 8: Rest
and so on.
ZP Listening days are on days 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21. The Qv2 listening days are days 3, 7, 11, 15 and 19.
In the 21 day period ZP Title gets 6 loops, Qv2 Title #1 gets 5 loops and the Qv2 Title #2 gets 5 loops. A total of 16 loops.
All 3 Are ZP Titles
Day 1: ZP Title #1 (x1), ZP Title #2 (x1)
Day 2: Rest
Day 3: ZP Title #3 (x1)
Day 4: Rest
Day 5: ZP Title #1 (x1), ZP Title #2 (x1)
Day 6: Rest
Day 7: ZP Title #3 (x1)
Day 8: Rest
and so on
Listening days 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21 are for ZP Titles #1 and #2. The third title is on days 3, 7, 11, 15 and 19.
ZP Titles #1 and #2 would have 6 loops each and ZP title #3 would have 5 loops. This is a total of 17 loops.
Summary Table Of ZP Listening Schedules & Number Of Loops
Here is a summary table of the six listening schedules for Zero Point. Listening days are on Days 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 and 21.
For the stacks that have both ZP and QV2 titles the ZP days are days 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 and 21 and Qv2 days are days 3, 7, 11, 15 and 19.
| Stack | Total Loops | Breakdown Of Loops Over 21 Days |
|---|---|---|
| Only One ZP Title | 11 to 22 | 1 or 2 Loops For ZP Title On Each Listening Day |
| Two ZP Only | 22 | 11 loops ZP Title #1 11 loops ZP Title #2 |
| One ZP, One Qv2 | 11 to 17 | 6-12 Loops of ZP Title 5 Loops Qv2 Title |
| Two ZP, One Qv2 | 17 | 6 Loops ZP Title #1 6 Loops ZP Title #2 5 Loops Qv2 Title |
| One ZP, Two Qv2 | 16 | 6 Loops ZP Title 5 Loops Qv2 Title #1 5 Loops Qv2 Title #2 |
| All 3 ZP | 17 | 6 Loops ZP Title #1 6 Loops ZP Title #2 5 Loops ZP Title #3 |
You get the most loops over the 21 days running the two ZP only stack or the one ZP title at 2 loops on each listening day. Those who run 3 titles in the stack end up with the least amount of loops one a per title basis.
The one ZP title listening schedule at one loop is good for those starting out. If you run the single title at 2 loops a day then that listening schedule is one of the most ambitious ones out there in my view.
Experimental Patterns
Hard Gainer Pattern
I really don’t want to go in great detail here. This pattern looks insane as it is one loop in each of the 21 days. There are no rest days.
Reconciliation Reduction Patterns
These patterns have two rest days instead of one rest day between listening days. This reduces the number of loops in the 21 day cycle.
Listening days are now are Days 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19. Days 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24 would be the 5 day washout period. There would be 7 listening days here.
For the recon reduction stacks that have both ZP and QV2 titles the ZP listening days are days 1, 7, 13 and 19 and Qv2 days are days 4, 10, 16.
To save space, I just include a summary table. I did not want to go through all the 6 cases again in detail.
| Recon Reduction Stack | Total Loops | Breakdown Of Loops |
|---|---|---|
| Only One ZP Title | 7 to 14 | 1 or 2 Loops For ZP Title On Each Listening Day |
| Two ZP Only | 14 | 7 loops ZP Title #1 7 loops ZP Title #2 |
| One ZP, One Qv2 | 7 to 11 | 4-8 Loops of ZP Title 3 Loops Qv2 Title |
| Two ZP, One Qv2 | 11 | 4 Loops ZP Title #1 4 Loops ZP Title #2 3 Loops Qv2 Title |
| One ZP, Two Qv2 | 10 | 4 Loops ZP Title 3 Loops Qv2 Title #1 3 Loops Qv2 Title #2 |
| All 3 ZP | 11 | 4 Loops ZP Title #1 4 Loops ZP Title #2 3 Loops ZP Title #3 |
