Are natural bodybuilding contests drug free?
Just as the Olympic Games, natural bodybuilding contests are supposed to be drug free, and even drug tested, but still everybody knows they are not. As soon as you organize contests at a certain level, where lots of money and/or honor can be earned you will get athletes that use drugs. In a sport such as bodybuilding, where the drugs are so effective that they give a huge advantage over fellow competitors, the seduction is enormous. When one athlete makes the step, the rest has to follow or accept losing. In no other sport drug use is as common as in bodybuilding, that even separate natural competitions are organized next to the normal competition. However, this doesn’t mean at all that athletes participating in these natural bodybuilding contests are really drug free. On the contrary, drug use is at least as common in natural bodybuilding as in any other sport, especially in the high level contests. The reason why natural bodybuilders use drugs is very simple: the drugs are extremely
