Natural Bodybuilding Workout: Forget Those Steroids

By definition, ‘natural bodybuilding’ is building your body to its greatest potential without using steroids, or other growth-enhancing drugs, to achieve this goal.

A natural bodybuilding workout should be designed with some knowledge of the subject, or under the supervision of a trainer. Particularly when we start out, we tend to push ourselves too far, risking injury. In any natural bodybuilding workout, we need to establish a routine that pushes our bodies hard enough to gain the growth, without diminishing our goals by inflicting injury.

Using steroids to attain faster growth instead persevering with the natural bodybuilding workout may seem like an attractive alternative while we’re huffing and puffing, but make no mistake, there are side effects that could destroy your false sense of achievement. Joseph Krachenfels, in his article “Natural Bodybuilding Discussed”, lists some of the side effects of anabolic steroids as acne, baldness, headaches, kidney problems, impotence, high blood pressure and soft tissues injuries. Not worth it. Steady, sustained growth with proper bodybuilding nutrition is the way to go for a clean, healthy, happy life.

Despite your initial enthusiasm, during your natural bodybuilding workout, don’t over train. Muscle or tissue injury and / or exhaustion is neither beneficial nor encouraging. ‘Success’ is in every session done properly and safely, not in the punishment you can take. Warm up before you start your natural bodybuilding workout with stretching exercises and some cardio-vascular, like a few minutes on the treadmill.

Vary your exercises to include all the muscle groups – and focus on doing them properly. Swinging your body to achieve a lift is using your weight instead of your muscles. Concentrate on form rather than weight.

Proper nutrition, proper sleep and a healthy attitude, as well as your natural bodybuilding workout, could just turn you into the person you’re been longing to be.

Don’t Try My Natural Bodybuilding Workout!

My own natural bodybuilding workout went something like this:

Position: armchair. Six-pack on the stomach. (I presumed that was to keep me from swinging my body to lift the weights.) Grasp a beer can in the right hand, (being careful to alternate hands after each set) then slowly lifted to the mouth, keeping the elbow steady, and then lowering it again to the starting position.

My arms definitely got stronger during the routine, because the cans seemed to get progressively lighter. But I gave it up – the stomach became too well developed.



Note of caution: Ladies, if your partner is balding, carrying too much soft tissue, goes to the loo four time a night and claims to have a headache when you’re all coy – please don’t accuse him of using steroids! There could be another cause.