"To be in love demands that the lover shall divine the wishes of the beloved
long before they have come into the beloved's own consciousness. He knows her
better than she knows herself; and loves her more than she loves herself; so
that she becomes her perfect self without her own conscious effort. Her
conscious effort, when the love is mutual, is for him. Thus each delightfully
works perfection in the other."
A.R. Orage, "On Love"
Frank grew up in a tough Pennsylvania coal-mining town. A shy quiet guy when
young, he often found himself trying to finish a fight his younger brother had
started, only to get beat up. At age 14 Frank discovered bodybuilding when he
walked into his high school math class and spotted a muscle building magazine in
the wastebasket. Studying the magazine, he soon started training at the local
Wilkes-Barre YMCA weight room. He also bought a 30 pound set of dumbbells and
began training at home. His father was angry at him for devoting time to
training when he should have been doing work around the house. "Build yourself
up by cutting the grass" he was told. This only made Frank all the more
determined to succeed and he worked out with weights for three years in high
school, with two four month lapses during football season. He grew from 130
pounds at age 14 to 160 pounds at age 17 and felt great because he could
actually see the visible results from his workouts.
During his junior and senior years in high school Frank spent his summers as
an archery instructor at a Boys Scout camp in the Pocono Mountains of
Pennsylvania, working out hard and drinking lots of milk. He would hitchhike
home 20 miles on weekends and since his weights were all at camp, Frank would
carry 55 pounds of weights along with him so he could train. This way he made
sure never to miss a workout. His parents' attitude about bodybuilding began
changing as they realized his dedication. Frank's mother especially encouraged
him in his training.
Frank graduated first in his high school class and won his first two trophies
ever--for academic achievement, along with a partial scholarship to Wilkes
College, earning a BS in secondary education in 1964. All this time he continued
to train and began entering bodybuilding physique competition. By now Frank had
won over two dozen trophies and weighed 185 pounds. Spending the next two years
teaching math in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he moved to Tampa, Florida in
1966. Being very serious about competitive training and winning every contest
around and now felt he was destined for bigger things. Frank wanted to move to
California, but it would mean severing East Coast ties so he moved to Florida
instead.
In the meantime, Christine was growing up in Florida with her three sisters.
They were a close family, and enjoyed outdoor activities such as swimming and
boating on the Gulf Coast and Sunday picnics and outings with the family. There
was hardly a day she did not spend in the warm tropical Florida sunshine playing
and soaking up the sun. Christine was born with a natural artistic talent for
drawing and painting. She had entered many local art contests as a child and had
won recognition for he talents. In her high school years she began selling some
of her paintings, usually to friends and acquaintance. Her artistic talents
seemed to come from her father, who did much to encourage and inspire. Christine
became very popular in high school, always maintaining a B average, but she
liked to socialize more than study being active in civic organizations and was
head pep-squad lead, marching in parades and at sporting events.
When Frank and Christine met in Florida in September 1966 she had just begun
junior college and he was teaching at a local junior high school where
Christine's younger sister, Pat, was a student. Pat thought it might be nice to
have a bodybuilding champion for a brother-in-law and decided to ask Frank home
to meet Christine. Frank had been bodybuilding for almost ten years before he
moved to Florida in search of a better climate and training conditions. When
Christine met Frank, this was her first encounter with anyone had developed his
body so completely. She had seen all the Hercules movies when she was younger
but had just assumed these men grew that way naturally. She soon learned
otherwise and took up bodybuilding as a means to improve her own figure. She had
always had a good figure but found it a challenge to keep her weight under
control. With weight training, she found her bodyweight easier to control and
felt a lot more energetic from her daily training sessions.
Frank was training for the Mr. America Contest and Christine became
interested in competing for beauty titles. She won all of the local competitions
she entered in Florida and then decided to compete for the Miss Americana crown
in New York City in 1967. Frank had initially shown Christine how he trained and
the results bodybuilding exercises produced. Christine then took what Frank had
shown her and modified it into a program that gave her the type of figure she
wanted to develop. It worked! Christine won her contest, but Frank came in
second in his. They were married a few months later. Frank continued teaching
junior high school mathematics and Christine managed a nearby women's health
studio. They both continued bodybuilding: Christine exercised hard to set an
example for the women in the studio and Frank started serious training for the
1968 Mr. America competition, which he won. One week after winning the Mr.
America title in New York City, Frank defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Mr.
Universe title in Miami, Florida.
Several months later the Zanes moved to Southern California. Frank began
teaching mathematics in Los Angeles while Christine went to college and taught
women's exercise classes in Santa Monica. After moving to California, Frank won
the Mr. World title in Brugge, Belgium in 1969, the Mr. Universe title in 1970
and 1972 in London, England and the coveted Mr. Olympia title (world
professional bodybuilding champion) in 1977, 1978, and 1979 after 21 years of
training. He also earned a second bachelor's degree in psychology from
California State University in Los Angeles in 1977, a California Life Teaching
Credential in all subjects k through grades 14, and a Master's degree in
experimental psychology in 1990 from California State University in San
Bernardino.
Christine won the Miss Universe Bikini Crown in 1970 and then retired from
competition to devote her time to her studies and art. She graduated from
California State University in Los Angeles summa cum laude earning a Masters
Degree in Fine Arts with skills in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography,
and jewelry. She also earned a California Life Teaching Credential in elementary
education and obtained a teaching position with Santa Monica City Schools where
she taught from 1973 to 1977. In 1990, Christine earned a Master of Science
degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University in San
Bernardino.
In 1980, Frank and Christine opened Zane Haven in Palm Springs, a
bodybuilding learning center where people could learn the bodybuilding lifestyle
in weekend programs. By 1987 they had outgrown the Zane Haven facility and
purchased the former Cary Grant estate in Old Palm Springs Movie Colony, moving
from Santa Monica in the process. Frank was awarded a U.S. patent for his Leg
Blaster invention and began a weight training, nutrition, stress management and
deep relaxation program called the Zane Experience in their new location. In
October 1998, Frank and Christine sold their Palm Springs estate and relocated
to San Diego, California. Frank operates a thriving fitness mail order business
-- visit his website
www.frankzane.com
-- and teaches the Zane Experience to clients from all over the world wishing to
learn how to be successful at weight training and nutrition. Christine spends
her free time creating beautiful jewelry from gemstones and precious metals.
For more information E-mail Frank at
zane0001@aol.com
or write to Zane Experience, PO Box 4088, La Mesa, Ca 91944.
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