Skip La Cour's 10 Best Strategies . . . SendMe2.Cleaner.selectedindex navigate document. Assuming the methods of testing are reliable, those bodybuilders have not used any steroids, growth hormone, or illegal physique-enhancing drugs to build their physiques. The length of time in which a bodybuilder must be drug free varies with the different organizations that promote the different contests.
Most organizations require athletes to be drug free for at least one year.
Other contests may require three years, five years, or even a lifetime without the use of drugs. Opinions on this issue seem to be evenly split down the middle. Bodybuilders who have employed the assistance of drugs in the past feel that, just as with any other drug, you no longer benefit from their effects once you have discontinued their use. The different bodybuilding organizations have different methods of testing. The most common and cost-efficient procedure seems to be the use of a polygraph.