Contest Contest: The Contest!
The Prize:
Praxis. In the department of simple/versatile, Praxis unrolls and attaches to a door, tree, fire escape, or anything else to give you six anchor points for your resistance bands. And yes, I’m talking to you P90Xers out there and anyone else who has been snapped in the face trying to jury rig a resistance band to a portable pullup bar in an over-sized door frame.The folks at Praxis have set up a special landing page for MDA readers, complete with a exercise video and $10 discount + $10 flat rate shipping. Winner will receive both the Praxis and a heavy resistance band.
But why stop at one resistance band. Enter today’s second prize, the Rubberbanditz. It’s a package of resistance bands, door straps, handles, and carabiners; this is the second year running I’ve featured this little bag-o-resistance. Maybe it’s the charm of Ari’s video, but give me these over the mass-marketed “Biggest Loser” branded bands any day.
The Contest:
Last year’s challenge saw a few interesting and unusual contests with fairly successful results. While I’ve still got a few tricks up my sleeve for upcoming original contests as well as the return of a favorite, I’ve got a spot left for one more. And you get the chance to tell me what that contest is. In the comments section of this post, leave an idea for a cool Primal contest. If your idea is good enough, along with winning the above prizes, your contest may be featured later in the challenge! A few guidelines:
- Should in some way or another support an idea about Primal living.
- Anyone in the world should be able to enter (i.e. no contests just for New Yorkers or just for red headed people)
- Shouldn’t take too much time for an average person to complete.
- I already have three open video contests. Unless the idea is pure brilliance, it is very unlikely that I will add a fourth.
To give you a concept of fringe contest ideas, the “Give-a-stranger-steak Day” and “Vegetable Swimwear” contests were both eventually struck from this year’s roster, but (as some of you know) the secret Grok Tattoo and Grokpose contests made it through just fine.
The Deadline:
September 20, 8:00 am PST. 24 Hours!
Who is Eligible:
New Yorkers, redheads, and everyone else.
How a Winner Will Be Chosen:
I’ll pick one.
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“Bakin’ with Bacon” – Give your favorite and most interesting ways to use bacon.
Or how about a contest detailing creative and useful things to do with non-primal foods people are cleaning out of their pantry this month.
creative primal blueprint nick names?
Another Meal idea. Examples of meals on the go.
Lets say you aren’t going to be home all day and don’t want to eat out. What are some of your best to go meals.
Getting yourself into the grok pose is easy. How about seeing how many people that you don’t know that you can get into the grok pose. Hit someplace like a farmers market, park, your college, or anywhere there are people. Snap a picture and make a collage or an album and submit it.
Create a short and simple one-page/ business card type, explanation of the Primal BluePrint that can be handed out or given to friends/doctors/haters that explain why you chose to live this way. Use diagrams or pictures for bonus points.
Mark’s mission…
“to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we’ve assumed to be true about health and wellness”
…the challenge lies in passing this way of thinking on to as many people as possible.
Contest idea…have an advertising campaign. MDA readers can send in photos of their advertising tactics in action. Whether it be “Marksdailyapple.com” post-it notes plastered along the cereal aisle of their local grocery store or a banner stretched across an overpass. Let’s do our very best to reach as many people as we can to spread the word about healthy living.
Create and take a picture of the most primal cooke you can make it.
Most Primal Photo contest:
photo yourself doing as many primal things at once as you can. Example: sprinting while eating a hard boiled egg; lifting something heavy while getting extra sleep while drinking a meal replacement shake…you get the idea.
GROK ON!
I second the primal limerick idea!
As someone with physical limitations I’d like to see detailed suggestions on how to modify exercises. How could Grok lift heavy things with one arm? How could Grokette sprint with bad knees?
“Random Acts of Primal” Challenge
Make Grok cut outs; on the back of each cut out write down one way to be more primal and the benefit of doing so. The more Groks you make, the better.
Hand the Groks out to strangers (or, if you are too shy, to friends, family, or co-workers who know nothing about primal living).
Primal Cribs Contest (kind of like ‘MTV Cribs’ but instead of being vapid it could be inspirational to others trying to live a primal lifestyle. Share in 300 words and 5 pictures your ‘primal crib.’ Describe your primal pantry, in home primal gym, primal commuting vehicles (bikes etc.) or any other primal elements to your crib.
Contest:
Create a primal workout. Not an exercise, but a workout. The workout should use moves that mimic Grok’s hunting adventures. The sequence should make sense.
For example: Running = prey chasing, clean and jerk = clear a large stone out of the way, sled drag = dragging hunted animal back home for cooking.
Portable meal recipe contest. I think a lot of PBers struggle with lunch on the go more than breakfast or dinner at home. I know I do. It may be MDA heresy, but I get tired of BAS for lunch everyday
Iron Chef Grok style.
reveal a secret primal ingredient and see who can come up with the best primal recipe featuring the ingredient. points awarded for creativity, presentation and actually featuring the ingredient in a prominent way. ie if it’s a lemon don’t just sprinkle lemon juice on some meat, make a primal lemon pie
Congrats Nate!! We’re doin’ yer contest!
I would love a Grok desert contest!
Candid Groksquat camera! Get a friend to follow you around with a camera until he or she gets a good shot of you hanging out in the Groksquat. Extra points if you can get a shot of someone looking at you funny while you do it.
(This could also work substituting Vibrams/barefoot for Groksquat…)
Host a flash mob of Primal groks in their favorite gear to whatever large attractions in that area and send in pictures. For example, I live in Boston so I might organize a flash mob of groks at Newbury street or Fenway park.
Title could be ‘WHAT A LOAD OF GROK’
Dress up like Grok/Caveman or Cavewomen and video record or take pics of yourself either out, at home or exercising dressed like grok.
Submit ideas for Primal Blueprint bumper stickers. Some examples:
I Grok, Therefore I Am
Think Globally, Act Primally
Grok is “Korg” spelled backwards
Each could contain a web link in smaller print.
Submit Gork’s favorite motivational work out music either home produced or off iTunes.
“Gork” eh…
contest idea: create the ultimate primal meal
that is, with a specified set of ingredients. contestants are to take the ingredients, make something, write the recipe and process down, and upload them along with pictures. the primal community would then decide their favorite recipe.
go primal!
In the spirit of going green and saving the world…. why don’t we recycle???
Show pictures of CW objects that now have a new Primal function.
For example
*My grandmother’s rolling pin is now used for crushing nuts and cracking heads. =)
*The tins that used to hold flour and sugar are now used for flowers, feathers and rocks that I find on my after dinner hikes.
*My running shoes are still in the closet… but now they are my secret hiding place for the (mad money).
I didn’t read through so maybe somebody said this but…
Live for 24 hours without electricity? Write or take pictures of what you do for 24 hours unplugged.
Favorite places to do primal workouts. For example, I like to run on the beach because of the different terrains, or anything that sounds interesting.
take something that is typically nonprimal and come up with a primal way of cooking that meal, provide pictures and recipe..most original idea wins (would help if it was delicious as well)
Two ideas:
A “Progress Report” Comments post – where primal challengers write a comment to report on some metric of their progress. Weight lost, improved sprint times or deadlifts, inches lost from arms/legs/waist, etc.! Best man and best woman could each win, or you could pick a winner at random.
OR
A Polyvore Primal challenge – Folks email in their best Polyvore composition. http://www.polyvore.com – lets you mix’n'match cut’n'paste images from shops around the web, especially retail sites. Sample collage would have Vibrams, coconut oil, a couple of grass-fed steaks, a spear or two, maybe a cavewoman in a dress. You pick best submission, or some semifinalists and let readers vote for the best.
create your own primal funny/cartoon strip
Unless you’re working on it already…how about a design contest for a FEMALE grok for the t-shirts, tattoos, etc.
Dude seriously, it is sorta hard to be a lady on this site, I mean we are in meathead paradise here. We need a girl grok, and I would love if Mark’s wife would start posting!
The Primal Traveller: share your best primal on the go ideas, whether that’s for a day at the park, a weekend camp out, or an international trip. How do you forage for the best food, make sure you are following the fitness laws, and otherwise taking care of yourself modern Grok style.
Entrants are encouraged to take photos that illustrate their ideas, whether that’s the meal they’d take along or the stuff they’d pack in their luggage.