For this reason, over the past few years, many new natural bodybuilding organizations have been established with the sole purpose of promoting the idea of adding the muscle mass that is necessary for competitive bodybuilding in a totally natural way.
Rather than have an official website of their own, many of these diverse natural bodybuilding organizations have joined together under the one International Natural Bodybuilders Association (but a word of warning – turn your speakers off if you don’t want to be deafened by the ‘music’ that starts playing at deafening volume as soon as you arrive on the homepage!).
On the site, there is a comprehensive list of all substances that are banned in all forms of competition by the World Anti-Doping Agency. Click the link to see the list of substances that are banned as of the 1st of January 2009 in all forms of recognized competition in all sports and activities.
At a competitive or professional level it is therefore clear that banned substances of any form are no longer acceptable in bodybuilding, any more than they are in any kind of recognized sporting activities.
However, the number of people who are professional bodybuilders in comparison to the number of people who are bodybuilders for their own personal enjoyment and satisfaction is extremely small.
Nevertheless, it is not unknown for even the most seemingly laid-back recreational participant in all forms of sport or physical activity to be utterly determined to succeed, and determination of this nature often leads to a temptation to take short cuts.
This is possibly one of the reasons why over the past two or three decades, bodybuilding has (however erroneously) become almost synonymous with participants indulging in banned substances in a desperate effort to attain another 0.1% performance or appearance improvement.
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