MDB Success Story Contest – Day 14: X Stretch
Posted by: Coach James in MDB Community, P90X, Rich, RippedI did the X Stretch again at the end of the second week and I recall that it felt quite good.
However, when I sat down to write my journal entry that night, my mind was focused on something else…
July 17, 2007
Day 14: X Stretch
Million Dollar Body Success Story Contest
Well, I completed week two today. The stretching felt really good. I will write more about this routine in the future, but… I’m a little excited about something else at the moment.
I periodically get behind on my emails and end up spending an afternoon or more going through them and clearing out my inbox. Today I was doing just that when I opened up an email from Million Dollar Body entitled: “Check Out the Latest Winners of the Million Dollar Body Game!”
I wrote about the Million Dollar Body Game a couple weeks ago. To review (from my previous entry):
In order to play the Million Dollar Body Game you log in to MillionDollarBody.com, go to WOWY (Work Out With You… more on this later), click on “Start Your Workout Now”, select your exercise routine, and click “Continue.” At this point, you can post a message for your fellow WOWY gym rats to see (like I said, more on this later), or just click “Enter WOWY Now!” and start working out.
At this point, you have entered the Million Dollar Body Game and are eligible to win the daily prize. It looks like about 1000 people enter every day. Six days a week, the winner gets $300 or a physical prize like an iPod. Once a week, on the WOWY Mystery Day, the winner gets $1,000!
You can enter once per day and winners are chosen at random and notified by email when they are selected. Theoretically, you could win the daily prize every day. Highly unlikely…but possible. No purchase is required. You just have to have registered with WOWY and uploaded your picture to your profile.
So, when I opened up the aforementioned email this evening, I was expecting to see the winners of the aforementioned contest… Instead I saw the profiles of two people who had won $10,000 and five others who had won $1000 all under the title: “Check out the June Winners of the Million Dollar Body Game.” The winners were broken down by gender and age.
I was a little confused for a moment, before I remembered that I had seen something about a monthly “success story contest” as well. Now, I hadn’t paid any attention to this before. However, this email revealed something interesting to me…
As I said previously, there were two $10,000 winners pictured and five $1000 winners, but there should have been six. The sixth winner was missing because there were “no entries for Men age 20-29”… that’s me! This means that Million Dollar Body wanted to give away a grand to a male age 20-29 who had achieved success with the Million Dollar Body Products, and no one had shown up to claim it.
Sounds like an easy grand to me! I’m doing P90X anyway. I’m two weeks in and loving it. And, obviously, I’m doing this because I want results… without really being conscious of it, I already wanted to be a success story! Now, I’ve got at least a grand waiting for me as a little extra motivation… very cool.
Upon further research, I found out that the way it works it thus:
To enter the Million Dollar Body Success Story Contest, you need to be a member of the Million Dollar Body Club. I have known about the Club since I first registered with MDB, but I hadn’t really looked into it. I’ll look into the Club in more detain later, but it costs $3 a week and comes with lots of benefits.
Once you are a Club member, you just upload your “before” and “after” pictures to your Success Story page (which you get when you first register with MDB for free), add your stats (weight, body fat, etc.), and write a relatively brief transformation story. It takes MDB a day or two to approve your pictures, but once they have, you are ready to enter. You just log in to MDB and click “Enter the Success Story Contest.” You’ll be sent to your “profile page”, where you click “Submit my Success Story for the transformation contest!” That’s it!
There are eight winners every month, four men and four women. They are selected from four different age groups: 18-29, 30-39, 40-49, and 50+. The best male and female entries each month win $10,000 and the six other contestants win $1,000. Plus, all the monthly winners can compete in the annual contest, where six $50,000 prizes are awarded and the best male and female entries win the $250,000 Grand Prize!
I’m sure I will write more about this in the future and get into more detail… but this is great! I now understand why they call it “Million Dollar Body!”
I chuckle to myself now when I read that last sentence because, although I thought I knew why “they call it ‘Million Dollar Body’”, I only knew half of it. At the time, I was still unaware of the full benefits of the Million Dollar Body Coaching Program.
By the way, I’ll be finishing Phase II of P90X tomorrow and taking my pics and measurements, and I’d say my “Million Dollar Body Success Story” is coming along quite well!…