Zhao's career

After graduating from Hujiang University, Zhao went to the Commercial Press as an editor. After work, he has been committed to the practice and spread of fitness. As early as 1930s, he translated the Law of Muscle Development written by American Li Demin, which was the first bodybuilding monograph published in China. This book was published by the Commercial Press and reprinted three times because of its great sales. Later, mcfadden translated and published books such as The Road to Health, Fifty Years of Sports Life, The Complete Book of Physical Exercise Law and The Secret of Strength. In addition, according to his own fitness training practice, Zhao has written books such as The Latest Dumbbell Exercise Method, Answers to Muscle Development Problems, and Freehand Fitness Exercise, and edited Jianlimei magazine and Sports Health Knowledge series, which played an important role in popularizing fitness knowledge and encouraging people to participate in fitness exercise.

After liberation, Zhao donated the Shanghai Fitness Center and all his sports equipment to the country. He works in Shanghai Institute of Physical Education, engaged in scientific research of bodybuilding and weightlifting. Zhao often goes deep into the training of sports teams, especially the Shanghai weightlifting team. Until he retired, he was over 70 years old and still went to Jiangwan training camp in the suburbs every week, in the wind and in the rain.

After the reform and opening up, he took the lead in publishing an article on how to carry out whole body muscle exercise in Sports Daily. Since then, bodybuilding, which was once neglected, has been revived with the joint efforts of Zhao, Zeng Weiqi, Lou Zhuoyu and fellow traveler Qi Xin, plus the propaganda of the news media.

Shanghai Gymnasium and other places opened gyms or remedial classes, and Zhao was hired as a consultant. At that time, people who came to consult every day were overcrowded. He always receives them warmly and gives them everything, so that he often forgets to eat and sleep.