natural bodybuilding
Unenhanced muscle cultivation
Natural bodybuilding is competitive bodybuilding without performance-enhancing drugs—no anabolic steroids, growth hormone, or other banned substances.
Competitors typically undergo drug testing to verify compliance.
The term distinguishes this approach from the openly drug-enhanced physiques that dominate professional bodybuilding: He competes in natural bodybuilding federations.
The adjective natural, or its slang shortening natty, describes both the practice and its practitioners.
- muscularHaving well-developed sinews
- physiqueBodily structure and form
- competitionStruggle for supremacy
- drug-freeWithout illicit substances
- drug testedChecked for prohibited substances
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