Jeff Seid, celebrated for his Men’s Physique success and modeling career, triumphed at the 2024 Diana Kakos Pro-Am, a competition subject to drug testing. Post-victory, Seid asserted his ‘lifetime natural’ athlete status in a YouTube video.
Derek More Plates More Dates, known for dissecting claims of natural athleticism, turned his focus to Seid’s declaration. In his latest video analysis, Derek, popularly known as MPMD, raised doubts about Seid’s natural status, citing his physique during the 2016 Mr. Olympia.
With close to two million YouTube subscribers, Derek of MPMD wields significant influence in fitness circles. His discerning assessments extend to notable figures like the Liver King and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, establishing him as a trusted authority. Derek’s response to Seid’s assertion provided a compelling counterargument, challenging the notion of Seid being a lifelong natural athlete.
Debate Over Jeff Seid “Lifetime Natural” Claim Status: Derek of MPMD Gives Analysis
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Following his participation in a drug-tested natural bodybuilding contest, Seid reiterated his lifelong stance of never having used steroids.
“Lifetime natural bodybuilder. I don’t know why whenever I say I’m fucking natural it triggers you guys so much. It’s kind of funny to be honest. I’ll throw that up in my caption because I know it’s going to get a fucking shit storm going on.”
Seid expressed dissatisfaction with the “current trajectory” of bodybuilding, aiming to showcase his aesthetics in a natural show.
“I am a natural bodybuilder so I haven’t competed in eight years. I wanted to come back, hit the stage, and you know I look at the current state of bodybuilding and I don’t really want to comment on the trajectory of where it’s going and my opinion of it.”
“I’m always training, I’m always in good shape, throughout the years of even though I wasn’t competing, I still been training hard. Still been dieting hard, still been maintaining my physique, still looking fucking aesthetic,” said Seid.
Derek of MPMD scrutinized Seid’s physique, suggesting he appeared ‘stringed out’ in his early Olympia shows before 2016.
“In general, when we’ve seen him really really lean, he just kind of looks stringed out. Here he is at the 2013 Olympia, 2014, it’s not like this guy has a problem getting in shape, the guy is perpetually shredded out of his god damn mind. But for him to look like this on stage… it’s like okay, this is not just you happened to shave another percent off your body fat, you are clearly heavier with a significant amount more mass, seemingly.”
He argues that Seid showed a different physique at the 2016 Mr. Olympia. This suggests he “probably did something for this show.”
“Is the progression from all of these [photos] that enhanced looking? Tough call man. I would say in my perspective, he probably did something for this show [2016 Mr. Olympia] in particular.
He stood on stage and looked different than he ever had and hasn’t achieved that look since, in my opinion, and hasn’t actually at this show either.”
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Derek of MPMD doesn’t attribute Seid’s improved 2016 physique to lighting or circumstances. He suggests Seid had to take measures to place well.
“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, a cut above with a level of mass that probably couldn’t be attributed to just lighting and circumstances. Because it’s just different, it just looks like there’s more tissue added here. So, is he where he was at in the 2016 Olympia? It’s a tough call man. I would say he’s definitely maybe regressed a little bit but was it within the realms of what you could perceive to be natural regression just by not being as regimented and dialed? He suggests that that’s not the case and he’s as big as he’s ever been.”
“My stance at least as of now, he probably did something for the Olympia that he knew he probably had to to even have a chance of placing well and is conceivably natural for this natural show, they have a drug testing protocol in place that is obviously not bulletproof,” explains Derek of MPMD.
However, Derek of MPMD suspects Seid used enhancements for the 2016 Mr. Olympia, “at minimum.”
“I would say he was probably enhanced in 2016, at minimum. Who knows if he was for sure but this is a really interesting highlight of him stepping into the crossfire essentially of people debating about this shit in his comment section when historically, he’s never touched it.
He basically just pokes fun at it once in a while makes captions about it but he’s never posted a near-20-minute video addressing it directly.”
Moreover, Derek of MPMD’s final verdict? He doesn’t buy Jeff Seid’s claim of being a lifetime natural athlete.
“For him, do I think he’s natural here at this competition? Yes. Do I think overall it’s likely that he’s lifetime? Probably not. Who knows man? At the end of the day, I do think this guy is an interesting case of insane genetics and conceivably perhaps natural most of the time.”
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Overview
Jeff Seid, a Men’s Physique icon, clinched victory at the 2024 Diana Kakos Pro-Am, a drug-tested competition. Furthermore, his assertion of ‘lifetime’ natural status drew skepticism from Derek of MPMD, citing Seid’s physique at the 2016 Mr. Olympia as evidence.
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