Announcement: In case you haven’t heard, there is an all-new Primal Blueprint cookbook! If you grab a copy by 10am PST, Sunday, March 13 your pre-order will qualify for special bonuses. Learn about this limited-time offer here or just snag your copy now while the offer lasts.
In 2007 Paul weighed 300 pounds. Today… well you’ll just have to read his story.
If you have your own Primal Blueprint success story and you’d like to share it with me and the MDA community please feel free to contact me here. Have a wonderful Friday, everyone, and thanks for reading!
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Mark,
I am a 26 year old software developer and I have been a mixture of paleo and Primal for approximately two years now. When I first decided to lose weight, I was sitting at around 295 – 300 pounds. As I went through college my entire life consisted of sitting […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

<p>The basis of Tabata Training is 4 minutes of intense interval training/circuit training. What you are doing is taking an exercise we'll use sprints as an example here.</p>
<p>Sprint as hard as you can for <strong>20 seconds</strong></p>
<p>Walk for <strong>10 seconds</strong></p>
<p>Repeat 7 more times for a total of <strong>8 sets</strong>.</p>
<p>So what you have is a total of <strong>4 minutes of workout time</strong>.</p>
<p>Tabata Training can be done with a number of different exercises the idea is to use an exercise that gets the whole body involved or at least the major muscle groups.Tabata Training can be done with Barbells, Dumbells, Kettlebells or just Bodyweight exercises. I'll give you some other exercises and routines to try in a minute but first let me give you some background and how Tabatas work.</p>
<p>Tabata Training was developed by Izumi Tabata (imagine that) at the National Institute of Fitness and Sports in Tokyo, Japan. They did a study […]

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I’m very excited to announce that Primal Blueprint Quick & Easy Meals will begin shipping next week! Since releasing The Primal Blueprint back in 2009 countless readers have asked me a) “what exactly should I eat?” and b) “how can I do it with little to no time?”. Last year, professional chef Jennifer Meier and I put our heads together to answer the first question. The result was the original Primal Blueprint Cookbook. On the heels of its success we jumped straight into the task of answering the second question. And now, I’m proud to say, our mission is complete. In this new book you’ll find over 100 mouth-watering recipes with easy-to-follow instructions and 300 brilliant, full-color, glossy photographs to guide and inspire you to cooking Primal meals in 30 minutes or less.
To mark this occasion and to thank loyal Mark’s Daily Apple readers I’ve put together a special 72-hour […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

A couple years back I highlighted a Time Magazine photo essay called “What the World Eats.” It was a fascinating visual comparison of what – and how much – representative families across the globe consumed in a given week. (Several obliging MDA readers later shared photos of their own rations.) Revealing on yet another level, the Time feature included the cost of each international family’s provisions. Expenses varied radically as you can imagine with weekly expenditures ranging from $1.23 in Chad to more than $500 in Germany. The three American families, incidentally, reported spending $159 (California), $242 (Texas), and $342 (North Carolina) each. With the talk about rising food prices looming in the headlines again, I found myself thinking about Primal food costs. Is anyone seeing the jump yet? Are Primal folks more or less affected by these periodic fluctuations? Do we, as a Primal group, really spend more than […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Take a look at that picture to the right. Appetizing? While I wouldn’t be surprised by numerous affirmatives from the Mark’s Daily Apple community, for most people even the sight of brains, kidneys or tongue is enough to turn their stomachs. Nutritionally, of course, we can all agree that offal is fantastic stuff. Leading the pack is liver, also known as nature’s multivitamin and the best source of pre-formed vitamin A. There’s the heart, full of CoQ10 and taurine, and the kidney, a rich source of selenium, B12, and tons more. Brain (rich in omega 3s) and marrow (rich in awesomeness) got mankind involved in our million year-old torrid love affair with animal flesh, while tongue is rich in fat, protein, and B-vitamins. The nutritional content of tripe, thymus glands, eyeballs, blood, intestines, and other miscellaneous parts are less studied but undoubtedly just as impressive. But truly enjoying offal – […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

I spent the last 5 days just me and my boy.
(Wife and Daughter are on an all-girls vacation)
I learned a lot in 5 days.
Most importantly I learned that time moves incredibly quickly. My little guy is growing up FAST!  As a wise old lady at a grocery store once told my wife (in reference to our kids) “Honey, the days may seem long, but the years are short”….how true.
I turn 34 years this year, so I think it’s safe to say I’m having a bit of a quarter life crisis (What? how long do you expect to live?)
Here’s the crisis –> Life happens quickly, and where you are at right now…this is it – so enjoy it.

I blinked twice, and suddenly he's almost two

Now here is where my quarterlife crisis applies to health and fitness.
Life is too short to be overweight.
Seriously, I know this sounds shallow, but I believe it’s […]

Original post by Brad Pilon

“It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
A couple recent gluten studies made me think of Dickens’ opening lines from “A Tale of Two Cities,” which describe the concurrence of contradictory states of being and consciousness in 18th century Western Europe. That’s people for ya. We can be miserable and happy at the same time. We can believe something despite evidence to the contrary staring us in the face. You’ll see it in online arguments, especially regarding subjects whose research luminaries publish in […]

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Max cycles in 20 minutes of:
1 Pullup/Chinup
2 Pushups
3 Full Squats

How-to:
Warmup: A couple rotations of the Grok Squat and Grok Hang.
Progress Check: You did this one back in August of last year. Today, you’re going to do it again to see how your current level of training compares to the last time. Try to beat your old score!
How-to: Execute 1 pullup. Drop down and perfom 2 pushups. Get up and do 3 full squats (bringing your hips to below your knees). That’s one cycle. Repeat, but this time do a chinup instead of a pullup.
Variations: If you can’t do a proper pullup/chinup, pushup or full squat substitute movements from Levels 1-3 of Primal Blueprint Fitness Lift Heavy Things (chapter 3).
Hat Tip: This workout is a favorite of mine. It’s a minor variation on a workout that is part of the SimpleFit protocol.

What Are WOWs?

Workouts of the Week (WOWs) are an optional component of Primal Blueprint Fitness that add a fractal […]

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If you’re someone who has wondered if cooking a bird as small as a quail is worth the time and effort, let us remind you that good things do indeed come in small packages. As far as time and effort goes, it requires very little of either to serve quail. Its small size means that it takes just a sprinkle of seasoning or a brief amount of time in a marinade to add tons of extra flavor. Not that you need to; even with just a dash of salt, quail meat is tender and succulent. And quail cooks very quickly – 10 minutes or so on the grill and dinner is ready.

The daintiness of quail makes it seem like a fancy meal, but we recommend putting away the white tablecloth and good silver. Quail is the perfect finger food, so drop the knife and fork and dig in. If your […]

Original post by Worker Bee

This is something I have been working on for a while now, but it wasn’t until recently that I decided that it needed to be free.
It’s important information that I think needs to be shared with as many people as possible.
So I’ve set this up so you can share it with anyone you wish. It’s also a work in progress. I will be adding more presentations, more downloads and more information as quickly as I can.
So with out further ado:
If you want to know how eating less (including fasting) can indirectly HELP you build muscle, and how over-eating, lack of sleep and even too much strenuous exercise can slow the muscle building process then this new project is for you:
Click HERE ? Inflammation and Muscle Growth
The presentation is live, and downloads will be made available shortly.
I hope you like it (Feedback welcomed)
BP

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Original post by Brad Pilon