Passing the Doping Tests

How do bodybuilders pass the doping tests successfully while using big amounts of various drugs throughout the year and during competition? To be honest, I am certainly not an expert in this field, but doing some research on the internet revealed the following information in less than one hour. I am sure there exist many other methods and tricks that I don't know of yet.

The big bodybuilding federations don't test their athletes for doping at all, and don't even claim their athletes to be drug free. Some smaller so-called natural bodybuilding federations claim their athletes to be drug free, but don't have the financial resources to do any significant doping testing. Sometimes a limited number of athletes are urine tested during a big contest, but for off-season testing there is certainly no money, as a single urine test costs several hundreds of dollars, and a more advanced blood test cost a multiple of this.

Tricks to Test Negative

Passing a doping test while being on drugs, doesn't seem to be very hard at all. There are countless ways to achieve it. Below I list some of the more effective and popular methods. As I am not an expert myself, I will not attempt to explain any of them in detail. I just briefly list them to give you an idea.

• Currently no tests are operational to detect the use of human growth hormone, insulin, IGFs, myostatin inhibitors, gene doping, and stem cell therapy.
• Designer steroids exist, which are structurally manipulated anabolic steroids especially developed by chemists for athletes to be undetectable by the current doping tests (e.g. tetrahydrogestrinone or THG).
• Several anabolic steroids, prosteroids, and precursor steroids are not yet classified as controlled substances, and are undetectable by current doping tests.
• Several oral drugs, including anabolic steroids, are no longer than a few days or weeks traceable by current doping tests. Insulin disappears already a couple of hours after administration.
• Epi-testosteron is used to mask the use of exogenous testosterone.
• Adding certain chemicals to a urine or blood sample can cause a false negative doping test.
• Oral masking drugs are taken to hide traces of doping products in the urine.
• Urine samples can be diluted to make doping traces undetectable by drinking lots of water or using diuretics.
• Using small amounts of many different drugs can keep the level of each individual drug low enough in the test sample to remain undetectable.
• A very effective method that athletes use during doping tests is to give a clean urine sample instead of their own fresh urine sample. This clean urine can come from a donor, or can be prepared from powdered urine, which can be self-made or even bought on the internet. The clean urine is usually concealed in a container or can be injected into the athlete's bladder directly via a needle or via a catheter through the urethra.