Frank Zane is a former American bodybuilder, author, and three-time winner of the Mr. Olympia title. Zane was the lightest man to ever win the title. He was under 190 pounds at the time.

Not only is he the lightest Mr. Olympia, but he is also one of the most educationally qualified bodybuilders. During his college days, Zane was a chemistry major.

Bodybuilding wasn’t his first career choice

On August 2020, Frank Zane appeared on the 416th episode of Adam Lewis Walker’s podcast. The name of the podcast is “Amplify your mission with ALW”. During the podcast, Zane revealed that being a bodybuilder isn’t something he had dreamed of becoming after growing up. Rather, what he really wanted to be was something that required a strong brain instead of a strong body.

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Giving in to his curiosity, Adam had asked Zane what he wanted to be while growing up. Frank revealed that initially, he wanted to be a scientist. However, his dissatisfaction with the way his high school teachers taught, lead to him taking up teaching as a career. While training to be a bodybuilder, Zane used to work as a mathematics teacher. He also revealed how he changed his path from wanting to be a scientist to becoming a teacher.

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“I wanted to be a scientist until I got involved in teaching because when I was in high school I thought that I could do a much better job at teaching than the teachers I had there,” Zane said. “So when I was in college I was a chemistry major and then after two years I switched to secondary education and then began teaching in school after that,” he added.

Additionally, Zane thinks that teaching is the best side profession for an aspiring bodybuilder. According to him, it pays well enough for the aspirant to support himself and they’ll get months off in the summers during the vacations to focus on the training.

The man with the greatest physique: Frank Zane

Frank Zane is widely known as the man who built the greatest physique of all time. His body was the perfect blend of a lean yet muscular body. Zane has established himself as one of the most iconic bodybuilders in history.

Frank Zane defeated the bodybuilding legend, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in Mr. Olympia in 1977. His win brought about a tremendous change in the body-building world. Instead of focusing on body mass, he brought attention to the aesthetics and the symmetry of the physique.

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Zane was even inducted into the Bodybuilding Hall of Fame in 1991. Can you imagine what bodybuilding would be like if Frank Zane would have gone through with his initial career plan?