There are many people in the country that find some way to
work out on a consistent basis. One of the most favorite ways for people to
exercise is the muscle resistance activity known as lifting weights or
weightlifting. This is a form of exercise that has become very popular over the
last 50 years or so. It truly started to take on a wide cultural presence in
the 1950s with the publication of muscle magazines which covered the physiques
of athletes that were focused on competitions and photo shoots. In the 1960s,
the bodybuilding culture was sort of a countercultural movement that challenged
athletic sports in interesting ways in the realm of public attention. The 1970s
had the over the top characters in the world of bodybuilding which included Lou
Ferrigno and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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| Brad Lomas |
From that point on, the physiques of professional
bodybuilders started taking on more unrealistic proportions and cartoonish
features. The public soon strayed from their adulation of these athletes which
were clearly not living a healthy lifestyle yet espousing the benefits of
living a healthy lifestyle. The 1990s introduced the performance-enhancing drug
scandals into the world of traditional sports. Major scandals involving Barry
Bonds, Mark McGwire and other famous athletes change the public opinion on
their acceptance of performance-enhancing drugs in the sports that they love so
much. Today, many athletes use weightlifting not for physique building, but for
building strength and they are able to implement efficient techniques to
achieve that strain to the benefit of the sport that they participate in. Brad
Lomas is an active lifestyle weightlifter that is a former semiprofessional
baseball player. He has used weightlifting throughout his career to help him
achieve things on the field and he has done it naturally. Although he is 50
years old, he is as strong as a man half his age and because of the attention
that he has paid to his health, he has never had any major injuries.
