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In the Beginning | How & Why, I Started Bodybuilding
Strange how some things turn out to be certainties. From the moment I touched a barbell I knew that I’d do it the rest of my life. Bodybuilding was the answer to everything in my 14-year-old mind and body. And at that time, I had good reason to believe it. My younger brother and I attended Larksville High School and were the best 2-man pee wee touch football players around. Anything he’d throw I could catch, and we beat every body including lots of the older kids. Word got around and everyone wanted to challenge us and when we beat them all, many of them wanted to fight us.
To avoid the distraction caused by the constant threat by these punks, my brother and I transferred to Edwardsville High School, since we lived right on the border of Edwardsville anyway. It was a friendlier environment, but I had to pass by Alfie’s Shoemaker Shop every day where a bunch of Larksville thugs hung out. I never knew when I was going to run into them, and I felt a constant state of uneasiness. I had to do something about this.
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Frank Zane
American bodybuilder
Frank Zane (born June 28, 1942[1]) is a retired American professional bodybuilder and author. Known as "The Chemist", Zane is a three-time Mr. Olympia winner, having won the competition every year from 1977 to 1979. He previously reigned as Mr. Universe in 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971 and 1972, and Mr. America in 1966, 1967 and 1968.[4] Typically competing at a bodyweight of less than 200lbs, he regularly placed higher than people much bigger than him. His physique is considered one of the greatest in the history of bodybuilding due to his meticulous focus on symmetry and proportion.[5] With one of the smallest, tightest waists in bodybuilding, he was renowned for his vacuum pose.[6]
Since his retirement from competitive bodybuilding in 1983, Zane has written several books on bodybuilding, operates a fitness mail order business, and teaches the Zane Experience program to clients.[7][8] He was inducted in the IFBB Hall of Fame in 1999.[1]
Biography
Zane was born in K
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Frank Zane
With desire and focus, Frank Zane has always manifested and accomplished his goals. It did not matter whether the endeavor was becoming a better typist in high school or the recipient of the coveted Mr. Olympia for three consecutive years; Zane has demonstrated what can be achieved through positive thinking and a focus that is laser like.
Zane has always had the ability to follow his path to success in spite of those that would doubt him. At the age of fourteen, he began lifting weights and saw the positive results within a short period of time. His impetus was a lack of physical prowess. He had very few supporters and far more critics. Coaches and his father did not provide encouragement. Coaches during the fifties viewed weight training as the facilitating a muscle bound athlete and his slight of build senior high school typing teacher echoed these sentiments suggesting that Zane would never become a good typist due to his muscle bound fingers. Of course, his reaction was to become the best typist and a remarkable student, graduating first in the 1960 graduating cla
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