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The new theme: A Primal Breakfast
We’ve received some delicious Primal beef recipes from readers:
Korean-Style Short Ribs
Carne Asada
And we have a few more reader-submitted beef recipes in the pipeline, including one that will be published tomorrow.
All of these recipes will be featured in the Reader-Created Primal Blueprint Cookbook and the entrants have a chance to win an über cool Primal prize package.
If you’d like to participate in this contest send in your own favorite Primal recipes that relate to the current theme – A Primal Breakfast. Click here for all the details.
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Original post by Mark Sisson

Just because Conventional Wisdom seems to get almost everything wrong when it comes to effective fitness, proper human nutrition, and preventing degenerative diseases, it doesn’t necessarily follow that all official recommendations and prescriptions are faulty. Cigarettes are bad for your health, for example, and drinking and driving actually do not mix. Those are two obvious examples of CW getting it right, and there are definitely a few others, but today, I’m mostly interested in the popular concept of good posture. What is posture? Is “good posture,” as defined by chiropractors, teachers, office ergonomic consultants, drill sergeants, and Grandma (“straighten up, sonny!”), actually good for us? Or have the experts gotten it wrong, once again? Looking around me, if people are listening to the professional advice, it’s bad advice. Slumping, slouching – I see it everywhere, every day, and not just when people are sitting. Can we apply the Primal Blueprint […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Before I publish today’s regularly scheduled blog post I wanted to get the word out.
I will be speaking at a CrossFit Genesis sponsored event in Roseville, CA on Tuesday, October 20th. If any Mark’s Daily Apple readers can make it I’d be thrilled to have you drop by. Read below for all the details and the promo flyer copy:
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to meet Mark in person during his Northern California media tour. Mark’s extensively researched masterwork cuts through the confusion, hype and flawed Conventional Wisdom about eating and exercising with a simple, evolution-proven program based on ten simple, practical Primal Blueprint behavior laws. As soon as you “go Primal” you will enjoy immediate results in the form of improved energy, athletic performance and immune function. Long-term, you will be able to effortlessly reach and maintain your ideal weight without the struggling and suffering that is so common with […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

College students and healthy lifestyle. On the one hand it seems like the ultimate contradiction. Pizza boxes, Red Bull cans, Doritos bags, beer bottles, Captain Crunch at every cafeteria meal. They’re as much a cultural vision of college as John Belushi’s sweatshirt. If there were a Primal no man’s land, you’d think the residential campus experience would at least be a top contender. Nonetheless, college needn’t be the physical wasteland it’s made out to be. And, let’s be honest: most students do not really live/eat/drink this way. As many students exercise regularly and eat decently as send their bodies through the wringer during their college careers. Nonetheless, campus living is its own kind of existence, and it presents its own challenges for maintaining a Primal routine. Not surprisingly, I get emails from college readers asking for tips on how to live a healthy lifestyle. Here’s one:

I love your blog and […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Welcome to Passionate Fitness!
For those of you who are new here, Passionate Fitness is a community based fitness site where people can read and submit articles, upload pictures, with privacy settings, make friends, use forums and more. For more information about us read the about seciton and the guide to using the site.
We’re currently hosting an article submissions contest with an $100 cash prize. The contest ends October 14th, so make sure to submit an article as soon as possible!

Original post by Rafi

This week, thousands of articles on fitness and health have been written. Here at Passionate Fitness, we comment on some of the most interesting ones and share our opinions about them with you.
First, there are still contest submissions coming in, and while we’re not going to play favorites, we will say that we are very impressed with what we’ve gotten so far. We want to remind everyone to submit an article before the contest ends October 14th.
Here’s our top 5 commentary roundup:
#5 – Mark’s Daily Apple – Choose Your Booze, a Guide to Healthy Drinking
This article choice is for our member, Guzzlinsuds. While the “Primal Living” crowd isn’t known for their drinking, this article did a good job of telling people which drinks to go with. We were happy to see that scotch made the list of something that you could drink, but wouldn’t necessarily agree that Vodka is a […]

Original post by rafael@thefitnessadviser.com (Rafi Bar-Lev)

This comment deserves a post of it’s own. From comments in Randomness.
Mamaelvis –
“Maybe you know all of the following, but just in case it helps you. (It helped me)
Making a tiny insignificant commitment to writing for even 2 focused minutes everyday almost always leads to writing a hell of alot more at a sitting just out of momentum.
Keeping a visible calendar with your successful commitment’s to those days reinforces that you are following through on your writing.
The other trick is saying to yourself that this is “only a rough draft” if you are stalling out of wanting that “definitive book” to fall out of you. It usually won’t & even if it did nobody needs perfection.
Huge books about diet filled with theory & studies are usually summed up in less then 20 pages.
I think that your strength is that you were not a lean teenage person & you […]

Original post by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Berkhan)

Dear Mark,
I’ve been following the blog for a couple of months now and have been trying to get into a regular exercise routine like you describe. Unfortunately, I get some fitness momentum going and then lose my willpower once I hit stressful or busy times. I feel like it’s a game of two steps forward, one step back (at least). What do you say to someone who’s trying to hit a fitness stride but keeps backsliding? Do you have advice on how to boost willpower? Thanks!
Your question is a timely one. Much was made over a recent study (PDF) that demonstrated willpower as a limited resource. The crux was this: we have a finite amount of willpower in a day (so to speak), and when it’s used up, that’s it. In a given day we might defend against donut cravings at the office all morning, force ourselves to keep […]

Original post by Mark Sisson

Modern Gladiators are brought by King Of The Ring

The ‘fight bug’ is definitely not getting out of the gym – at least not with guys like Billy Frezza and Omar Santiago. They’ve both just signed up for a fight at the King of the Ring’s Modern Gladiator, in Virginia Beach, this October 17th.

Billy Frezza, KnuckleUp fighter

Omar, after his MMA debut at the AFL VI, is back, fighting at 145lbs.
Billy just had his first fight at AFL VII, is hungry for another one, and will be fighting at 135lbs. His opponent is Chris Huntington (1-1-0).

Omar Santiago, KnuckleUp fighter

The King Of The Ring started when William Varner promoted the very first King of the Ring on February 16, 2001, in a ballroom at the Surfside Oceanfront Inn in Virginia Beach.
From their website:
The event was a huge success among local fighters and MMA fighting fans. With some fighters coming from as far away […]

Original post by knuckleup