The Chosen Spartan Emperor

Another update of my newfound discipline and mental toughness…

Cold Showers

While at home with my family I’ve been doing cold showers every morning. This may not seem significant, but doing cold showers in December in New England is no joke. Especially coming from the tropical climate where I live now, where just being in frigid New England during December can be challenging enough as I’m no longer climatized to cold weather.

Today, I stood under the coldest possible setting of the shower for well over a minute and managed to relax myself completely and almost felt “numb” to the effects of the cold. The mental toughness of Spartan is certainly blooming right now and I couldn’t be more proud of myself for sticking with this habit, especially when I would’ve had every excuse in the book to wimp out.

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Also workouts tend to fly by like I’m in flow for most of my workouts and it’s almost like I time travel and then my workout is done automatically. I’ve never experienced something like this before ZP.

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I like your journal, maybe it is because I intend to start a similar configuration from tomorrow.
Did you observe any fat burning on Spartan?

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I decided to adopt the same stack. I was wondering if you ever feel conflicted between Emperor’s drive for the self and Chosen’s drive to be of service? I find those drives need to be reconciled sometimes.

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Yes I have. Spartan really encourages consistent hard exercise as well as keeps you in check with your diet. I’ve noticed significant improvements in my body fat levels in less than a month of running this sub.

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I haven’t noticed any conflict, it’s been very synergistic for me - my mentality is filling my cup first in order to help others. For example, when home for the holidays I have been eagerly working to help my parents out as they were hosting Christmas this year. Being productive towards my own goals but immediately and eagerly helping out when they called upon me.

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Yo bro I got something for you that might interest you.

You’re doing ICF currently right?

Once you feel like you’ve done enough, try nSuns 5/3/1, they have an app for the iPhone and it has multiple splits (4/5/6 days), and the volume is crazy.

Like today I had 9 sets of squats at different percentages and one AMRAP, then 8 sets of sumo deadlifts, after that I couldn’t even move for my accessories :rofl:

Edit: yes I changed my program again but this time I’m sticking with it because I planned to start it from the day I turned 24, so far I’m loving the extreme volume and intensity, and I feel like you would like this too, especially because of the AMRAPs :wink:

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Damnnn that sounds wild but I’m just getting started with ICF for now. Maybe in a few months once I have a good base I’ll try that one - sounds crazy af in a good way :joy:

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I just started today Jeff Nippard’s UpperLower program, so far so good :).

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Oh just a quick note about ICF;
There’s a version 2.0 that cuts the 5x5 to 3x5, and it feels more balanced, it’s not going to matter to you as much in the early stages, but once you hit the main numbers that the program wants you to be able to hit (2 plates bench, 3 plates squats, 4 plates deadlifts), you might wanna switch to the 3x5 due to the stress on your CNS, or you can deload for a week and hop on to something like a powerbuilding program (Jeff nippard, nSuns, RP male physique, 5/3/1 forever, etc.) to even out the focus of your training, as well as to let your CNS recover from the extreme volume of ICF 5x5.

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Appreciate all of the lifting tips bro. Always very welcomed and informative :muscle:t3:

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Last day of my washout and I’ve noticed I’ve been super horny the last day or so haha this wasn’t happening while I was running my loops only the last couple of days. Granted I’ve been on semen retention for 2 and a half months but still interesting nonetheless.

Other than that people have been very pleasant with me and I’ve been feeling a chill content happiness and excitement for the next stage of my journey.

Running Emperor ZP solo tomorrow to gauge its effects (especially coming off this washout) and picking up with the remainder of my stack on Friday.

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From my first run of Emperor ZP yesterday:

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Sold an expensive item on eBay. The buyer was trying to finesse me and take advantage of the eBay money back guarantee, but today I ruthlessly reported them and called them out on their lies. Definitely taking no shit from anyone trying to take advantage of me.

I’m still kind and lighthearted to most people, but there’s this switch that turns on when someone is acting in a scummy way.

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I swear I’ve been having the craziest manifestation experiences lately.

Today, I was thinking about how I need to force myself to get out of my condo more. I’ve been a bit of a hermit lately just on my grind focusing on leveling up my life, that I haven’t had much fun or adventure. I was thinking back to a fun time in my life a couple years ago where I had a very annoying roommate who was always pestering me, which basically forced myself to be out and about exploring my city. I kid you not, not even an hour after having these thoughts the fire alarm in my building goes off FORCING me to leave the building and walk around and explore my city.

It was too surreal for it not to be a manifestation. Everything lined up perfectly with what I had been thinking about. An annoyance forcing me to leave my place and go explore around. :exploding_head:

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I had also been thinking about an old friend of mine who I hadn’t spoken to in a while, and all of a sudden she texts me out of nowhere asking how my Christmas was :joy:

Crazy

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I should also mention when I was walking around just now after the fire alarm thing, I was walking confidently and with dominant swagger. I was intently focused on my destination walking through a crowded part of my city, and people were moving out of the way to give me space. I was calm, dominant, zoned in and not to be bothered by anyone. True Emperor vibes.

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Ok guys YET ANOTHER synchronicity / manifestation experience. This is becoming crazy lol.

Today I got an email saying that a package from Amazon has arrived. I live in a large condo building, and they will call using an automated system to let you know your package has been sorted and is ready for pickup. This can take hours to days sometimes to get this message, as there are a lot of residents in the building and a ton of packages to sort through.

Anyways, I was cooking lunch today with headphones in listening to music, and randomly thought to myself “I bet they’re about to call me and let me know about the Amazon package.” I kid you not less than 30 seconds later I get a phone call from the automated system telling me my package is downstairs :exploding_head:

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Those are all some great manifestations but this one takes first place!!!

For this reason I like Emperor more than Mogul. I would add Mogul into an Emp stack for extra productivity almost like an ultima. Emp is sustained productivity, the endurance and consistency needed to build an empire. Mogul is that balls to the walls energy you need to go from not making a lot of money to having built a business from scratch really fast.

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Ok @SaintSovereign what have you put in ZP, these manifestations are INSANE (check out my last few journal posts).

This most recent one takes the cake in terms of awesomeness…

So there is a music festival I’ve been wanting to go to, particularly since it’s just a quick drive away from where I live. Yesterday, I randomly started thinking about this festival and remembered that one of my buddies from out of state had mentioned he was thinking about going. So last night I hit him up simply to see if he was still planning on going. If he was, I would strongly consider purchasing passes for the festival.

He texts me back saying he’s going in 2022, and then hits me with this message…

“Dude if [his gf] can’t come I got a free VIP ticket for you, I got the glamping tent and it has 2 beds”

And later in the texts he said she’s most likely not going to make it and that the VIP ticket is all mine!

So I went from just being curious about if my buddy is going to being gifted a FREE VIP ticket (without even asking) to this dope music festival, which is worth at least $1000 with all the amenities included :exploding_head:

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