The 2010 Primal Challenge is Coming…
Success is much easier when your friends are cheering you on. And in a month, you’ll have an entire community right beside you as you take the plunge into Primal living. I’m bringing back the 30 Day Primal Challenge this September. For 30 days, MDA will transform into a hub of reader-generated content and activity, where you can read about how others are going Primal, watch videos of people cooking their favorite Primal meals, and start your own 30 Day Primal Challenge journal. Whether you’re new to the blog and still a little timid about the whole “ancestral health” craze, or a seasoned veteran with a closet full of Vibrams just looking to add some more Primal schwag to your collection, September is the perfect time to actively participate.
And yes, there will be prizes.
In addition to the regular post each day, there will be a contest post. Some contests are as easy as leaving a comment. Other contests may require a little more brain and legwork. If you were reading MDA last year, you may remember sending in breakfast photos to win a bucket of fat, or writing Grok Haiku. This year I’ll be bringing back a few favorites as well as adding an assortment of exciting new ways to get your Grok on. I’m aiming for bigger and better prizes as well, but I need your help and suggestions…
- If you are a company and want to feature your product on MDA, shoot me an email!
- If you know a company who might be interested, feel free to shoot them a line.
- If it helps you cook a Primal meal, break a Primal sweat, or live a Primal life, I’ll give it away.
- If you have a prize suggestion, feel free to leave it in the comment board, and if you know someone who makes it, leave a link to their website.
- I’m not looking for sugar-filled energy drinks, magic weight loss pills, or products that specifically go against the Primal Blueprint philosophy (grains, hard cardio, that ridiculous shake-weight), but I certainly don’t mind giving away a few sensible vices or products that fit under the broad category of “play”.
If you want a little taste of what’s in store, check out last year’s contests and prizes.
Tell your friends, tell your boss, tell your librarian, and tell Steve, that guy in your book club who keeps going on about how he’s just about ready to give that low-carb “trend” the old college try. Because in September, they’ll have an entire community of people trying right along with them. Thanks in advance for the feedback and stay tuned for today’s regularly scheduled post.
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Posted By: Mark Sisson
For a smaller prize giveaway, orange glasses to wear at night. I’ve been wearing them, and getting deeper, better sleep! safetyglassesusa.com
Yes, I was going to suggest orange glasses also or the blue light blocking glasses, nightlights or light bulbs. I wondered how well the orange safely glasses worked ’cause they are much cheaper than the blue blocking glasses that were used in another study. I’m glad they are working for you!
YAY!! This sounds like fun! I agree two tickets to PrimalCon would be an AWESOMMEEE prize…
How about a subcription to a bacon of the month club?
http://www.baconfreak.com/bacon-of-the-month-clubs.html
that was my idea!!!
oh man! how great would that be!?!?
I think a spear would be a good prize so the winner can go out and kill something.
Then post pictures.
I second that. I’ve heard cold steel makes high quality stuff:
http://www.coldsteel.com/aswishsh.html
Speaking of sensible vices – I’ve been making coconut ice cream in my new ice cream maker with…coconut sugar!
Maybe you could do a little “coconut basket” – some coconut milk, coconut flour, coconut flakes, coconut oil and coconut sugar? Good luck and I’m looking forward to the challenge!
I can’t wait for the Challenge to start! Will the Primal Fitness e-book and Primal journal “kit” that you mentioned earlier this summer be available by then?
Fitness e-book is out. Woo Hoo!!! Though I’m curious about the “kit” too.
Looking forward to it cause I fell down and having trouble getting back up!
Awesome. I will cogitate on it and see if I can recruit some prizes from around here.
We are in desperate need of a door frame pullup bar to assist in our “back-to-basics” bodyweight “heavy lifting.” I’d like to see one given away!
(preferably to me, but you know.)
Ooh yes, that’s what I was going to suggest as well! Or what about gymnastics rings – we use them a bunch in Crossfit, and it’d be cool to have them around the house to throw onto a tree limb (muscle-ups, anyone?). Climb the tree, then do ring dips and pullups!
Great suggestion!!
Yay! This is just what I need for motivation!
I’m sooooo in! Can’t wait!
I’m in!! I have been wanting to do this and now I have even more motivation to keep me on track. So excited!
Theres a tv infomercial selling a product called the Magic Bullet which is like the supreme blender of blenders, and blenders are great for random paleo recipes
you could give away some paleo style exercise equipment, like sandbags or medicine balls
free copies of your book? or the cookbook? whats an easier way to help someone live paleo than the fundemental product itself!
You could let people show off their blogs, and have a winner (or winners) get a paid-for domain name or you could rank them in a Miss Blog Pageant ’10 in a post. You could have different categories (Entertainment, Educational, Modern Paleo, Wild Card, Radical Paleo, Recipe Blog, ect. I could come up with 100 of these haha)
Thats all on my mind right now, its early in the land of the rising sun (florida).
i am SO stoked about this! a recent car accident totally derailed my life style, but i’m healed enough to get my primal back on!
i think a prize of wild meats would be awesome:
venison
boar
duck
ostrich
coyote?
Wooo I am stoked, the fitness videos were my favourite last year.
IN
When does the 2010 primal challenge begin?
it’s the month of september. starts 09/01/10.
……………….pretty sure.
Hi,
An icecram maker for making nice primal icecream would be niice!
I’m doing the August challenge now, but will definitely be in for September too. It’ll be a good chance to up the ante!
I think some of those Grok water bottles would make some great prizes (you know, the ones we keep hoping will show up on your Primal Merchandise page? hint hint…)
Eh not sure where my post went.
But I was thinking a Volleyball Kit, and Ball would be a nice option.
Looking forward to this.
cooking supplies as prizes…
pots / pans/ utensils … would be cool (or hot depending on the use!…)
I am completely PSYCHED for the 2010 Primal Challenge!!!
…and all the prizes…
Badminton sets, volleyball sets, ultimate frisbee sets, workout equipment (kettleballs!), vibram five fingers (or any other shoe that is barely-there, I recall SOMEONE posting about that recently, as VFF doesn’t fit all), supplements, books, posters (I for one, would love to have primal/motivational posters on walls in my room), maybe as a grand prize, getting to go to PrimalCon for free/a reduced price! And DEFINITELY, grassfed meats, or wild meats in general, as they can be difficult to procure in some places ):
Thank you so much Mark and all the staff at the Daily Apple for all that you do to improve peoples’ health and awareness of themselves every day!
These shoes should appeal to the tribe. http://www.softstarshoes.com/index.cfm
Some runamocs would not go astray. That’s for sure!
can someone please explain exactly how you win prizes…
Check back in September, Taylor. All the details will be presented when the challenge begins.
This makes me happy! I have been primal for just over a month now. Loving the meat, fat and veggies. I dip into the dark chocolate a little too much though. It is so hard to find coconut oil and nut flours around my area. I would like to win a Whole Foods Store by my house, then the whole neighborhood would win! YAY for Mark!!
Also thought a Vitamix would be nice, but that’s probably stretching it!
Seconded!!
Hey Mark I stumbled across the blog a couple of weeks ago by pure chance and am now hooked. Just got my copy of the book, ebook and will be getting the cookbook soon. Can’t wait to read them to be ready for the September challenge.
As a law student I am a little worried about this “flu” messing with school but that hopefully won’t last too long.
Look forward to posting more and jumping into this Primal Challenge.
Maybe ease in for the first few days of September (eliminate sugar one day, flour the next, rice the next, etc.) Then try it hardcore over Labor Day weekend. You’ll probably be hit hardest at the end of the first or second day, so a long weekend will give you a bit of recovery time, and the slow elimination at first will make it not so brutal.
Good luck!
Thanks for advice. I have pretty much cut sugar out (other than ice cream) but flour and rice not so much so transitioning into it sounds like a really good idea.
My girlfriend has decided to try it out as well which will make it easier. So hopefully easing into it will help her out as well.
Great suggestion.
Gift suggestions:
Others already mentioned the vibram shoes, I second that.
My other suggestions are:
1) A simple and cheap one (you could give several for the lower prizes) – a slow cooker (I use it a lot for my primal meals)
2) Grok shirts!
Here is a prize suggestion… personal (by phone) consultation with one Mr. Mark Sisson on health and fitness strategies and how to live more Primal!