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
Prize Suggestion – Food Dehydrator from Excalibur (http://www.excaliburdehydrator.com/9-Tray-Large-Excalibur-with-26-hour-Timer-3926T-28-37-regular-prod.htm)
Gift suggestion:
- Grok sports watch (www.americanlogowatch.com – easy to have made and reasonable – no setup fee)
- Free ticket to PrimalCon11 (tho there should be some stringent requirements to win this!)
Looking forward to the challenge..
Tom
Prize ideas: decadent jerky from somewhere like Mahogany Smoked Meats in Bishop Ca. (on the way to Mammoth)and gift certs to the Primal Blueprint store. I’m excited for the challenge and I love the Primal Blueprint. I am actually doing an MS recovery diet, but got my husband and family on board with giving up grains, etc. by using the primal blueprint.
How about an official MarksDailyApple/Primal Blueprint Frisbee?
Just joking. Love the idea of a Primal Challange.
Thumbs up!
I’d love an MDA frisbee. Great idea!
this will be my first year participating and i am super excited!!!!!! i am definitely up for the challenge;-)
in lieu of PrimalCon Tickets, i would also totally go for something like a few weeks of nutrition/fitness consultation from you, Mark. That could easily be done through the magic of the interwebs. or, as i just noticed Mr. Anderson pointed out, by phone.
otherwise, you could probably just throw hunks of meat wrapped in VFFs at us and we’d be happy.
I am a newbie in the Primal World. I will finish the book this week and be ready to go. I cannot believe my timing is spot on for once! I am excited to join you all in the challenge…and prizes for reaching health goals? Really? How generous!! Thank you, Mark!
I’ll +10000 the prize of Vibrams… tho really any “barefoot” shoe would be sweet. Also like the exotic jerky idea. How ’bout a food dehydrator so folks can make their own? Chocolate, t-shirts, grok watch, all cool prize ideas. Your books & supplements also awesome. CSA or cowpool gift certs??
can’t wait!
A nice supply of grass-fed meat (doesn’t *have* to be beef) would be a great prize…
Im In! & Ready to go! Mark,how about GROK T Shirts for women so we don’t look like we are wearing potato sacks!
Thanks!
I’m in & I suggest the Small Micro-Cooker from Pampered Chef. Love mine, great for Cauliflower Rice. Although I don’t sell P.C., I’m willing to donate one to the pool of prizes.
My votes for prizes:
Vibram’s Five Fingers
Primal Blueprint/Primal Fitness Kit
Jerky
PrimalCon
Grass Fed Beef
Your supplements!
I second VFF, Jerkey and Grass Fed Beef
Giveaway ideas:
Vibrams (I want some sooo bad)
kettlebells
sandbags
anything to help with Primal cooking (gadgets, cookbooks)
interval timers
meat!
I’m SO excited to hear about this! Lets the games begin…
Looking forward to this challenge. If it is anything like the Whole 9, piece of cake!!
I’m ready this time. I had just discovered your site the last time you did the challenge and I have been slowly converting to Grok’s diet. I’m ready to give it 100%.
This sounds great! Is the contest open to people in Canada?
A newbie to Primal Living…and was initially worried about what was going to come of my Grok diet and fitness routine once I return to college campus, the most anti-primal environment I can imagine…
So the timing of this challenge is PERFECT. Ready to give it 100% too!
I third the VITAMIX! would love to have one of those or an ice cream maker. can’t get that coconut ice cream off my mind in this mid-west heat. I’m excited about the challenge, looking forward to it! Love the primal life:)
I fourth the Vitamix. Awesome!
Yay!! This will be my first Primal challenge!
I’m off to africa for 2 weeks in the middle of the challenge
yayy, a 30 day challenge!! I love this!! I just knew about the primal life style a little over a month ago and got addicted to this website and decided to do the 30 day challenge (which I have just completed today)
What an imazing feeling!! Its been forever trying to lose these last 10 stubborn pounds of fat and am happy to say I am already half way there and from the way my pants fit now, I can tell it was mostly fat that i lost!!! Its not only that, I feel I energetic all the time, wanting to play, go on run/walks, and not feeling hungry every 2 or 3 hours as I was before when I was following the “conventional wisdom”. Yayyy! I am sooo looking forward for the next 30 day challenge! and as far as prizes,how about:
a pair of five finger,
copies of primal blue pring book and the cooking book ( I already have it and its GREAT).
Pull up bar
some supplements!
I am totally gana get some of my friends and family to do this challenge with me!
Just bought the domain http://www.Primal30DayChallenge.com I am going to blog everyday of the 30 day September challenge.
I’m going to do the same … this is going to be fun
I’m going to do this too!! Awesome!!
How about winning Mark for a week? He could help with food choices, cooking & workouts …
Ooh… thought of this the other day. A Universal Strength Apparatus (USA).
http://www.bwculture.net/Articles.asp?ID=177
Hi Mark! Great news about the Primal Challenge. I am walking proof that 30 days of this lifestyle DOES change your body and your life. Suggestions for prizes: beach cruiser bike, yoga mat, signed copy of your book
Have a PRIMAL day all!
Hi Mark & fellow grokers! This is great! I can’t wait-been primal for a little while now, survived the 2 week “carb-flu” & doing so much better than before. I’m still working to incorporate all aspects of primal so the challenge comes at a great time for me. Lots of great ideas for prizes here!
So I think I’m going to do this this year. I might even take on Melissa Urban’s Whole 30 challenge in the month of September (my sister’s visiting the last week of August, and I don’t want to have to fight with my mom over food while she’s here). I’ve found, in the past, that fully primal/paleo is not a sustainable way for me to eat, but committing to a few weeks of doing it strictly kills my sugar cravings and food-induced moodiness.
This is exactly what I need! I’m ready to sign up come Sept. 1st. Thank you!
How about giving away a TRX Force system? They are compact and go anywhere you want, all bodyweight exercise programs so you make it as hard as you want!!
Love this idea!!