Binary Strength

A passion project

I believe the #1 product to invest in is yourself: your mind, body, and spirit.

In January 2021, during pandemic lockdowns, after fully recognizing my own mortality as a human, while staring death in the face, I started Binary Strength and my YouTube Channel as a passion project to leave behind words for my son while sharing my fitness knowledge to friends and coworkers and anyone out there who want to discover their true potential.

Eventually it became art to me.

The highest form of any craft, like Bruce Lee said, is self expression.

When you have soul in the game in an endeavor, styles and techniques fade.

What you do is formless, shapeless.

Work, life, they're just channels.

World-class software, mind, and body, they're just guaranteed byproducts.

Nothing to sell. I don't have time to waste your time.

All natural, flexible diet, no gifted genetics, no more than 45 min workouts, no endless content to monetize attention, no vanity, no time to waste.

Binary Strength is beyond fitness.

It contains words I want to say to my son for when he's old enough to understand.

It is a response to non-truths of this world.

It is a response to malicious lies about me being told to my son by his mom—lies that never seem to end. I will show him, not through words but through actions, who I really am.

The world is full of lies.
And if you follow the herd, you will be played.

When you’re being played by the fitness and food industry, you would think that obtaining a lean and muscular physique requires a lot of time and effort.

It does not.

It is far easier than making your first million.

It feels far more fulfilling too because your money isn’t a fundamental part of who you are, but your body is.

Becoming lean, with just enough body fat that your body actually needs, no deadweight, unlocks a state most people will never know exists. You will feel extremely light and finally know what being in your true physical body and being your true self feels like.

It has nothing to do with external validation. I always try not to talk to people in the gym unless it’s genuine connection in the sauna or something. While working out or dancing freely to melodic house music, I catch glares but remain unapproachable on purpose. I’m not there to make friends or approach women, I’m there to train and play alone.

What I’m talking about has everything to do with what you prove to yourself and the actual feeling of your body and mind that transcends into another state. In my opinion, that’s just the real state we’re all supposed to experience and be in before we unconsciously let all the deadweight and layers of false advertising cloud our minds.

It is a state of raw power and true freedom derived from having self-control of the body and mind. To have many options but choosing consciously.

Can you accept never knowing what that feels like and what it unlocks in your life?

Are you ok with living another day, week, month, year, not at that state?

It’s fine if the answer is truly yes, that you’re ok with that. I don’t place the same standards I place for myself onto others.

But if an average mind, body, and state of being is unacceptable to you, then keep reading.

Even though it’s straight forward, it does require extreme focus and consciousness and knowing the 1% of fitness information out there that is true.

You can have this information for free from guides I wrote for you below.

I strength train full body once a week to maintain and I’m conscious of what I eat but I can and do eat anything.

During certain periods where there’s higher stress in life, especially with co-parenting conflicts, I train more frequently up to 4-5 times a week to channel my rage so I’m not pulled in, remain grounded, then return hostility with forgiveness and love.

I rarely ever do cardio for fat loss. But I do play.

I also now do infrared Yoga regularly to maximize flexibility as I age.

I used to track calories and macros regularly but no longer need to as of September 2025 to maintain. I usually do track whenever I want to drop body fat down to single digits or re-enter that special mode of ultra-consciousness and abnormally high energy. As of March 2026, I’m learning intuitive eating to test if I can reach peak leanness without tracking calories in an app.

I’m pretty sure I obtained better fitness results with significantly less time and effort than most fitness authorities out there today.

I do not have gifted genes, especially for fat loss. I’m just a regular guy, a single dad with a full time job and areas of life outside of fitness that I invest in, including relationship with my son.

It was not easy to figure all this out.
But now that I did, I believe it would be wrong to keep it for myself or monetize it.

From my own journey, I realized that what holds us back most from our true form, our true self within, are strong forces and industry business models incentivizing misinformation and too much information due to pride and greed.

I grow tired of this and I am not ok with this, so I decided to do my part.

— A War Cry to All Men —

When the world was perfect, we didn’t need warriors.

Now we do.

Not all men are called to be warriors, but some are.

To all those who sense the pull inside:

Awaken.

Obtain the soul of a warrior.

Everything else, including a lean and muscular physique, happens naturally as a byproduct without resistance, integrated with your true being.

I challenge you to become more for the worthy reason of becoming a stronger man, to live aligned with your destiny, not for fleeing superficial reasons that objectify our dignity. Because:

“Our bodies will decay, but true strength will always remain.”

~ Jonathan Zhao

jonzhao binary strength free workout guide and diet guide

Download FREE Guides

What begun as a simple workout guide for friends and coworkers during COVID19 lockdowns evolved to become all I know about transformations distilled as:

Download Binary Strength - Complete Workout Guide (Home Workout Routines, Exercises, 1st Principles)

Download Binary Strength - Complete Diet Guide (Nutrition, Metabolism, Lifestyle Design, Psychology)

Men were meant to be more.

I have awakened and so can you.

Many men, especially leaders in tech, have applied these guides to get in the best shape of their lives, improve their well-being, physical, mental, and emotional health, massively improve relationships, and more. I hope you find them useful as well.

Genesis (Jan 4, 2021)

Chapter 1 End (Apr 25, 2022)

Go Beyond What Eyes Can See

Just like at work, what you see me do is only 1% max of reality. I am just a vessel.

I'm not playing games. I'm just being. What truly happens is all behind the scenes.

Space and time distorts daily through prayer because the past, present, and future, are weaved by the same thread of faith.
People are connected.
Opportunities flow.

God works and is always working because He loves each of us deeply, even ones who don’t recognize or love Him back, because He made each one of us and formed us before we were in our mothers’ wombs.

“The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.” ~ Psalm 145:9 (NIV)

As it is written in Job 26:7, about 2500 years ago, “He suspends the earth over nothing”, a basic reality that humans still cannot explain today, yet we believe we know reality?

There is only one reality: the one God sees.

Nothing occurs without Him allowing it, for it is God who brings forth the fruit of the vine.

Blessed be His Holy Name.

My Infinite Game

To me, physical training and dieting are acts of worship, out of respect for myself, a child of God, for our original design found in Genesis, and for God, who is with us, right here, right now.

Secondly, every single person I interact with deserves the best version of me, in all dimensions.

"you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies." ~ 1 Corinthians 6:20 (NIV)

And finally, my discipline is simply a disguise for divine rage against the darkness of the world.

God doesn't build warriors in temples and churches. He breaks them before He uses them, to teach them the language of pain because only the broken can understand the cost of saving others.

There comes a day when Heaven lets warriors off their leash.

We prayed for strength, He gave us storms.
We asked for purpose, He gave us enemies.
We begged for peace, He gave us pressure.

God doesn't give warriors comfort, He gives us conflict. The leash was not punishment, it was a waiting period. Heaven needed to make sure that when we drew our Swords, it was justice, not ego that swung it.

Our patience has become power, our restraint—a weapon, our faith—a furnace that won't go out.

The darkness hates and fears warriors of God who obey because they can be used as living testimonies of Truth and as vessels to restore the world. We are servants of the Most High, assigned to proclaim the Good News to the lost, to open the eyes of the blind, and bring drifting souls back Home.

Through extreme obedience of the spirit, our physical presence begins to distort space and time as we ally with God, and divert plans of those against Him, in both the physical and spiritual realms.

Brothers out there, arise, and carry the flame of the Consuming Fire.

The Choice is Binary

I wrote and created Binary Strength out of love for you.
Not a love from myself, but a reflection of our Creator’s, poured out specifically for you, right now, in this very moment.

Remember, the choice is Binary. Peace be with you, my friend.

I Leave You with a Blessing (God's Own Living Words - Not Mankind's)

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