Frank Zane

Training approach

Zane won three Olympias with the lightest physique of his era, and his method followed from that: proportion and symmetry first, mass second. He worked with moderate loads that let him hold perfect form through a full range of motion — typically three to four sets of eight to fifteen reps — and deliberately avoided maximal weights because of the injury risk. Accounts say Joe Weider pushed him to train heavier before the 1977 Olympia.

Compiled from public sources; accounts of the details differ.