CZ Optimization
Coaching

I coach the way I'd want to be coached.

Evidence-grounded, unapologetically direct, and built around your biology, never a template. Today there are two ways to work with me, and both run through my partnership with Jay Campbell.

Two ways to work with me ↓How I coach
Consultations currently run through Jay Campbell's platform
Chris Zant, Lead Performance Optimization Coach
In the arena
55 · Competitive Bodybuilder & Endurance Cyclist
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Chris Zant and Jay Campbell
With Jay Campbell

Coaching with Jay Campbell

I coach clients directly as the Lead Performance Optimization Coach on Jay Campbell's team. To work with me one-to-one, meet me on Jay's platform, Jay's teachings and my whole four-pillar system, applied directly to you.

Work with me on Jay's platform ↗
Launching with Jay
Jay Campbell, Monica Campbell, and Chris Zant
Jay, Monica & Chris

Performance Optimization Coaching Certification

Twenty years of Jay Campbell's work, his magnum opus. We've partnered to bring it to the coaching world as a certification, and I'm its chief author and lead coach. 15 modules, 107 sections, the full method taught and credentialed. For coaches, serious practitioners, and highly motivated individual optimizers who want the whole system.

Educational coaching, not medical advice. My own programs may open in a later phase.

How I coach

Principles I run on.

I bring the analytical framework of a 33-year consultant, the lived experience of a competitive bodybuilder and endurance athlete, the meticulous navigation of a pilot, and three years of elite mentorship in optimization. Here's what that looks like in practice.

Evidence-grounded

Every recommendation is graded by how strong the evidence actually is, proven floors before promising edges.

Built around your biology

Your labs, your history, your goals. No templates, the protocol fits you, not the other way around.

Optimized, not normal

A normal range is where disease gets flagged, not your target. Normal means you are not sick, not that you are where you want to be. With a knowledgeable physician, I coach to optimal.

Hormones as restoration and performance

You cannot perform, or age well, in an under-optimized hormonal environment. Restoring deficient men and women is well supported by trial evidence; aiming for the high end of the range is my coaching position, individualized and monitored with a physician.

Unapologetically direct

Honest feedback, clear priorities, and the hard calls made early. I coach you like I’d want to be coached.

Not from a distance

I run the same protocols I coach.

Endurance cyclist
Endurance cyclist
9 years from my first saddle, ~20 Centuries, 5 Triple Bypass Rides in Colorado, 2 - 1000 mile Rides Across Britain, and a Haute Route in the French Alps. Never a “winner” but the diesel engine who always finished his rides.
Competitive bodybuilder
Competitive bodybuilder
3 years of work, 18 month contest prep, my first Bodybuilding Stage at 55 where I competed in the Bodybuilder class for Amateur, 50+, and Open Heavyweight. Handily took last in my competitive classes but, as the ONLY amateur in the contest, you get a great “first place” medal!

Ready for an honest look at your whole system?

Book a consultation with me through Jay Campbell's platform and I'll look at your whole system with you, every pillar, honestly assessed.

Book a consult on Jay's site ↗
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