44 Years After His Last Mr. Olympia Victory, 80-YO Bodybuilding Legend Unfolds the Secret That Made Him Stand Out Despite Not Being the Biggest Bodybuilder On-Stage

The King of Aesthetics, Frank Zane, won the title of Mr. Olympia for three consecutive years, starting from 1995 to 1997. He’s believed to have the most symmetric and meticulous body of his time. He is, even at this age, he is definitely regarded as a legend in the world of bodybuilding.

Frank Zane was definitely not someone who had a huge body to win the title. However, there was a certain aspect of his physique that appealed to both the judges and the audience, creating a huge fuss about him. He had a different angle of taking over the stage and winning the title and it seems to have worked wonders for him in his career!

Posing makes a man perfect?

The secret to his victories of Zane was recently revealed by himself in a video posted on a YouTube Channel called ‘Muscle and Fitness’ for their Podcast ‘The Menace – Keeping It Real.’

In the podcast, when Milos was asked, “What do you think when you think of Frank Zane on stage?”, he replied, “He had a trick to come a little bit in front so he would maybe look bigger, so he would match those guys in the size. But Frank was known for being a statue. Every separation – legs, quadriceps, you can see.”

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Frank Zane, popularly known as ‘The Chemist’, replied that the only trick that he ever applied was to allow his audience to have a speculated view of each of his details. He would rather invest time in one pose than change poses constantly. He said, “I hold each pose long enough for everybody to see it. I wouldn’t be flicking from one pose to the next.”

How did the ‘Statue’ trick help him?

Frank’s trick to entail his audience to minute details made him act like a statue on the stage. He would hold on to his poses without twitching even an inch. That is something that’s very unnatural and thus he’s referred to as a statue.

This was also an advantage in his favor, as it did not require him to come too upfront on the stage. All he had to do was flex his details and he would appear bigger than his true size. In the video, Chris Cormier said, “He didn’t have to step forward that much because he was so detailed that he creates so much of an illusion that he always looked bigger than he probably was anyways.”

What do you think helped Frank Zane in his victory? How much is the trick effective when you actually see the legend posing on stage?

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