The Primal Blueprint Health Challenge
If you want to lose weight, gain muscle, reduce stress, increase energy or just generally look, live and feel healthier you’ve come to the right place! Oh, and you can win lots of cool Primal gear, too.
Watch the following video and read the article below for all the details.
Create Your Own 30-Day Health Challenge
This is your first task. It’s time for you to define and commit to your own 30-day challenge.
I’ve created a special forum for The Primal Blueprint Health Challenge. In it you can state your personal 30-day challenge and start a “Primal Challenge Journal” to track your progress.
Use the Primal Blueprint Health Challenge forum to receive positive feedback, advice and help along the way from myself and the Mark’s Daily Apple community.
The Primal Blueprint 101 Newsletter
I’ve created a special newsletter just for this health challenge – The Primal Blueprint 101 Newsletter. If you’re new to the Primal Blueprint or would just like a comprehensive overview of the Primal Blueprint health philosophy visit this page and begin receiving it today.
Daily Contests
The main challenge itself isn’t competitive but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some friendly contests along they way!
Over the course of the next month Mark’s Daily Apple, Primal Nutrition and sponsors will be giving away over $6,000 in prizes.
Here are some rules and answers to FAQ:
- Contests will run every day for the duration of the 30-day challenge (through Sep. 1), so check back daily!
- All contest prizes relate in some way to the Primal lifestyle.
- Some contests will require a bit of leg work while others will require something as simple as commenting on a blog post.
- There is no limit to how many contests you can participate in.
- The duration of any one contest depends on the nature of the contest. Some will last the full 30 days (to give you time to complete the contest task) while others will be as short as 1 day.
- Contest prizes will be awarded either by a random drawing, by reader voting/polling or by an executive decision (who I think should win!).
- Some prizes will only be available to United States residents.
- You can track the contests and contest results on the Primal Blueprint Health Challenge Contest Page. It will be updated every day.
- I’m not being paid by any company that is sponsoring the contest with a prize.
All you have to do to enter today’s contest is leave a comment on this blog post. For all the details visit Contest: Leave a Comment. Win Some Beef.
New to the Primal Blueprint and Mark’s Daily Apple?
If you are new to the Primal Blueprint and Mark’s Daily Apple and don’t know where to begin here are some resources:
1. Not sure what it means to “Go Primal”? Check out these articles for the basics:
The Definitive Guide to the Primal Blueprint
2. The Primal Blueprint 101 Page
3. The Primal Blueprint 101 Newsletter
4. The Forum – Ask any and all questions you have about the Primal lifestyle.
5. The Book
6. What to eat? – Primal Recipes
7. Have a question? – Contact Me
8. Check back tomorrow for an overview of how to eat and how to exercise according to the Primal Blueprint.
Tell your friends and family about the challenge so they can get Primal, too! Use the “ShareThis” link below to send this article via email.
The 2009 Primal Blueprint Health Challenge has come to a close. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take your own 30 day challenge! Go Primal for 30 days and see what happens to your body and your health. Stay tuned for future health challenges. Grok on!
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Posted By: Mark Sisson
Awesome Mark! Thanks for bring a new challenge to help get me back on track. Looking forward to making some real changes in the next 30 days!
I’ve got a beef with that picture. It’s driving a steak through my heart.
I love Primal and especially this prize-being able to eat steak without guilt-heaven
show me the beef! love ya!
I have been following MDA for a year now and have adopted some of primal blueprint (lots of vegies and protein). I have not given up carbs, but I try to stick with sprouted grains, sweet potatoes and brown rice – in much smaller quantities than in the past. I am still confused about all the conflicting info about the health of fatty meats.
Excellent. I am way way in. Got off track last week with 5 friends visiting and their desire to eat and drink their way around Oregon (which I admit I happily joined) so this is perfect timing.
Thanks Mark for setting this up and giving us a way to keep motivated and dedicated to being healthy and strong.
today’s contest is NOT a piece of cake…c’mon mark, how very non-primal of you…but a piece of STEAK! yea, baby, yea! in my belly!
Mmmmmmmm, steak! I am SO in.
Steaks yum!!! Choose me…!!!
As for the challenge, I’m in… next thirty days are going to be awesome!
Steaks sound real tasty.
I am so ready to go with the challenge.
I’m so excited! I’ve been waiting for this all week. I have a couple of friends that are joining me for this too. Steph, Sara, where are your comments??
im so excited too…also hungry for steaks
I am in Europe so I can only dream of tasting those juicy steaks…but one can dream for now!
I am moving at the moment so my primal challenge is to stick to it as much as I can. 20/80 here I come!
M x
Grass fed steak is the perfect prize for a pregnant lady!
Grok On!
hmm, steaks, yum yum.
but i life in germany, so i hope the 3 winners will tell how tasty the steaks was.
Thanks for setting up this Challenge Mark. I did really well with Primal living in June and then slipped a bit in July with vacation and a family reunion with a family more like the Korgs than Grok.
I started the day with a Primal workout alternating between push ups, pull ups, sledgehammering and a slosh tube that I built yesterday to prepare for the start of the challenge today. All I can say about the slosh tube is “OH MY GOD!”. I got an 4″ diameter 8′ PVC pipe and caps for the ends. Anyone thinking of doing this should start out with filling it 1/2 full of water (or less) before trying to progress to 2/3rds full of water.
I’m looking forward to feeling sore tomorrow.
Good timing with this. I’m in!
Steak rocks. I’m making the change as best I can to be more primal
Yay grass fed beef! My favorite!! So pumped about the challenge
Thanks so much for providing motivation and inspiriation for the primal lifestyle mark! So looking forward to making the primal challenge work for me!
Great way to get people motivated for a life change.
I love me some grass-fed beef.
I’m ready to get cracking on the 30-day Primal Challenge!!
I’m singing the “Steak and eggs and eggs and steak” song from Family Guy!
Awesome! I have been going sticking to Primal diet for the last 2 weeks with a cheat day on the weekend for thing like beer and some ice cream.
Mark,
Are there going to be any cheat days allowed. I have been trying to not take them but then on Sunday I hear this little voice saying “its now or never” for carbs.
Thanks,
Nathan
Started my journal. Needed this to motivate me not to cheat and eat garbage like toast or potatoes!
This was great timing for me! I started the primal lifestyle in January and have lost 40 pounds and kept it off. In July I slacked off, so this challenge will be a great way to get back into the groove
Yay for steak!
Mark..great kickoff! Journal is started, challenges listed and would love to try our some delicious grass fed steaks
Can’t wait to see what changes we can go through….make grok proud!
Let the games begin! (Literally for me; my own personal challenge is “play.”)
I think this challenge is a great idea to force people like me to finally get committed. Bring it on.
I have been looking forward to this challenge!