Despite Winning 3 Mr. Olympia Titles, 80-Year-Old Frank Zane Once Admitted to Having Done Some ‘Stupid Stuff’ During His Career

Frank Zane is a legendary bodybuilder who dominated the late 70s after Arnold retired. He is known to be one of the bodybuilders with infinite wisdom about the sport. Zane won three consecutive Mr. Olympia from 1977 to 1979, and once again lost to Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1980 and then retired.

Moreover, he is one of the very few bodybuilders who defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger. Zane defeated him in the 1968 Mr. Universe competition. Frank has a bounty of knowledge about bodybuilding, which he received as a result of bodybuilding for a long time. Zane was considered to have had one of the best aesthetically fit bodybuilding physiques in the history of the sport. Once, he shared his wisdom of knowledge about bodybuilding in an interview with ‘Muscle & Strength’.

Frank Zane shared the mistakes he committed in bodybuilding

Experimenting, failing, re-experimenting and succeeding – this is a graph every successful person generally has to go through. Zane went through the same process several times in the process of making his physique extremely highly defined. 

When asked about the biggest training and diet mistakes he has committed during all these years, Zane said, “Bulking up, training too heavy and getting injured. Just doing stupid stuff. A lot of times you push yourself too hard. It is difficult to know when you should rest and when you should push hard. That is the quandary that everyone wants to know.”

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He continued, “You really do not know anything, you don’t know if what you are doing is the thing to do. We do not have knowledge before things happen. We may have faith that something will work, because it worked for us in the past.”

Zane’s advice to skip the mistakes 

Zane began working out when he was just 14-15 years old. Moreover, he began competing professionally when he was 19 years old. And gradually he tried and learned various things about his body and worked exactly on how his body individually reacted to the training. That’s how he gained the knowledge he gained through the years.

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Frank revealed some basic but very important points to keep in mind when you begin your bodybuilding journey. Knowing about your body as an individual and working out according to that will give you maximum results and minimum injury in the process of bodybuilding.