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
Commenting here, too! Let the challenge begin!
Awesome! I’m so excited to get started!
Looking forward to the challenge! I’m about half way through your book now, so the timing is great!
mmmmmmmmm… steak! This is gonna be FUN!
mmmm… beef.
Mmmmmm, looking forward to this, and am trying to get family members to join in as well.
I’ll celebrate the kickoff with a nice primal lunch: spinach salad, grass-fed porterhouse, and a glass of green tea.
Let the challenge commence!
Just read through many of the 350+ responses and I’m thinking “hey, Mark’s on to something here!”
You can remove my name from contention for this prize… there are too many grass-fed virgins on the board for me to qualify. BTW, the porterhouse was delicious. Salted for about 30 mins to make it extra-juicy, then rinsed, dried, peppered, grilled to “bloody-rare” and devoured with gusto.
I’m on board. I actually started eating strictly Paleo this past Saturday. I feel great so far! Thanks for the encouragement and advice!
Tasty Creatine!!!
So excited to kick up my efforts a notch – I’ve been eating fairly primal for the past month and doing CrossFit for the past two. This is just the thing to help me try harder!
Looking forward to how I can further adopt the primal lifestyle….and steak.
Where’s the (grass-fed) beef!?
Grass fed steak – Grrrrrrrr!
I’m a beef eater.
Beef for me, please!
Excellent! I’ve been reading for about 6 weeks, shifting more and more paleo from a “flegan” — flexible vegan
— diet. Was already there on the exercise bit. Looking forward to this challenge!
So excited to get started on this challenge. Just finished the book yesterday, so the timing couldn’t be better!
I LOVE that this starts on survival week, it’s a 2-fer!
Now, about that beef….give it up!
Mmmmmm… MEAT! Steak is good.
So, funny meat story: A few years back, while heading home from a week long camping trip, my friends and I stop in a truck stop along I-80 to eat. The waitress comes over and asks, “What can I get you?”
One of my friends says, “MEAT!”
Without skipping a beat, the waitress asks, “And how would you like that?”
My friend pulls a coin from his pocket, flips it, catches it, slaps it on the back of his hand, looks at it, and in a dejected voice says, “Cooked.”
I’m in for the challenge. My log is started. But, to be honest, I just ordered a side of local, grass fed beef this past Friday, so I certainly don’t need to win this prize.
DML
Count me in!
Very excited for the challenge. Just finished the book a few weeks ago!
Get in my belly!
A friend put me on to going primal – it has been two weeks now and I’ve enjoyed it, and I am looking forward to getting more involved in the community to develop better exercise programs and to stay focused.
I have lost 20lbs after going primal and have enjoyed many a steak (grass-fed) along the way.
yumsters!
ME WANT STEAK!
Another 30 days why not? Just finished 100 days and loved it so lets do another 30! and maybe get some yummy beef out of it!
Count me in too!
Since going #primal 3 years ago, I’ve lost 30 pounds, found CrossFit and have kept in the best shape of my life. Got my mother to go primal and she lost 30 pounds, and as a Type I diabetic that is awesome for her!
Looking forward to the contests Mark, but in the end, everyone who changes for the better is a winner!
-PrimalMan
Those steaks sure sound delicious.