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MOTIVATION

By Cory Gregory

3 THINGS I
LEARNED FROM

FRANK ZANE
ing is one of the primary reasons that I’m so drawn to it. I received
some pointers, as you can see in the picture above, at his booth
one year on how to do a few poses the proper way.
Frank was from a generation where the waists were definitely
small, and the conditioned guy could beat a large guy if he wasn’t
in excellent shape. I always kept in mind when I’m on stage posing,
that I want to look as smooth, crisp and effortless as possible. If I
could nail these aspects, it would result in an incomparable confidence on stage that would give me my best shot to win.

Dr. Mimi Zumwalt

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3 TRAINING
1 OUTLOOK ON TRAINING

I would always make my way to Frank Zane’s stand when I went
to the Arnold and Olympia each year, to support one of my idols
in bodybuilding. In my opinion, he had the best physique in the
Golden Era. Clearly Arnold dominated the scene, but he also was
a much bigger athlete than me, structure wise. Frank, on the other
hand, was a more similar makeup, weighing in around 185 lbs. I
always thought I had a shot to look like him one day,
so I set out to achieve this.
I would go to his booth each year to buy any of his
new things, even if it was just to support him as a
figure because I knew that it would help me strive to
attain my current physique. I used to chit chat with
him a few times per year, and then one year I asked
him: “Frank, how do you feel from the years of heavy
training, all the competing, and what you have put
your body through?” He answered, “I have so many
friends that never trained or took care of themselves,
plus their bodies hurt and feel terrible now. I also hurt
from some of my injuries from years of training, but
I feel and look pretty good for 70 years old. I came
to the realization that you are going to hurt either way if you go out
hard. So, I would say I would rather look good and hurt, then look
bad and hurt.”

2 POSING
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Bodybuilding posing is an art form that Frank Zane, Ed Corney and
Arnold himself took a lot of pride in for their stage presence. Frank
always had flow to his posing routine that made himself appear as
symmetrical as humanly possible. Frank showing off his condition-

I did a 1 on 1 phone consultation with Frank years ago, and I asked
him a few questions that I had thought about for years. One was
about how he got his waist so small, excluding dieting. My question
was more geared towards what waistline and oblique exercises
he did to achieve his physique. He simply said, “I see guys doing
all these side bends with weights, but this is actually training your
waist to be thicker. Why on earth would you want to build muscle
on your obliques?” He said, “I would do thousands of broomstick
twist to make sure they go away. I want there to be next to nothing,
so my waist looks extremely small.” I did these for years because
Frank did, and I’ll say I know my golf swing even got better.

Either way, I left my obliques alone and never trained them heavy
again. I started doing conditioning and diet, plus some stick twists
to make sure I didn’t build them up.
The other thing that he shared with me when I asked him how he
got such separation his legs, was the top ¾ of the leg extension.
He told me to do 6 sets of 10 reps, alternating back and forth with
1 leg at a time with no rest. I would then do what would be 3 sets of
6 rounds total. This is a ton of conditioning for the quad, so this will
create that separation of the quad that bodybuilders crave.

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