| It was probably no coincidence that performance | | | | performance. |
| enhancing drugs in bodybuilding started to come to | | | | They allow anyone who is training to train harder for a |
| prominence at a time when bodybuilding first began to | | | | longer period and to recover more quickly. |
| be recognized as a competitive activity. | | | | Consequently, by using performance enhancing drugs, |
| Nowadays, anabolic steroids are illegal in most | | | | it is possible to build up muscle, stamina and fitness far |
| Western countries except when taken under medical | | | | more quickly than if the individual concerned was not |
| supervision. In addition, the list of banned substances is | | | | abusing these substances. |
| a great deal longer and more detailed than it was back | | | | To anyone who is interested in or is a proponent of |
| in the 70s, certainly in international sport. | | | | natural bodybuilding, the use of artificial substances to |
| Natural bodybuilding is the very antithesis of building | | | | help any individual taking part in competition to perform |
| your muscles up using drugs or banned substances, to | | | | to a higher level than they might otherwise be able to |
| the extent that 'Natural bodybuilding' means | | | | achieve is an anathema. |
| 'bodybuilding without the use of illegal performance | | | | Natural bodybuilding fights back... |
| enhancing drugs' according to Wikipedia. | | | | For this reason, over the past few years, many new |
| One thing to understand about the banned substances | | | | natural bodybuilding organizations have been |
| that have become a plague on international sport and | | | | established with the sole purpose of promoting the |
| competition over the past 40 years or so is that most | | | | idea of adding the muscle mass that is necessary for |
| performance enhancers do not really help to enhance | | | | competitive bodybuilding in a totally natural way. |