I often use a duplicated layout, then change the Map Frame source. When this is done the scale of the map zooms to the full extent of the data. I wish there was an option for Layouts to set a default extent or Bookmark of the respective Map. This saves time waiting for the layout to finish drawing (particularly if there's an underlying ESRI basemap so it's literally drawing all our data zoomed out to the entire world!) before activating the Map Frame and choosing the correct scale and location (usually by picking a saved Bookmark.