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Personal Best

Being TrueSapien means actioning the desire to maximise one’s potential. To be the best we can be, in turn inspiring the same desire in others. This area provides advice and insights from experts in their field to enable and inspire self-optimisation.

Be TrueSapien. Reject Mediocrity.

Stop counting Calories!

Well…don’t stop exactly but stop making it the priority number one! Many diets look at the calorie count of food and it seems the norm to check the amount of calories in food when shopping. Packaging even has marketing ploys on them that home in on this trait by declaring that there is “Only…” so many calories in this bar, dessert, snack etc… Outside the shop and it seems restaurants have sections on the menu that are specific to calorie intake such as the “Under 300 calorie menu” and magazines have article after article about burning those last calories or

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Pain in the neck…and back!

I’ve suffered from neck pain and lower back pain for years all down to having arthritis in my neck and spina bifida occulta, the mildest form of spina bifida which results in a small separation or gap in one or more of the bones (vertebrae) of the spine which is developed at birth. These two issues have meant a number of years of pain all along the back – right from the coccyx all the way up to the base of the skull. It generally means managing the pain through exercise but sometimes my methods slip or circumstances set off

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Small Life Changes, BIG Health & Fitness Benefits!

Don’t fall into the trap of over complicating your goals! I recently read the results of a survey from a major British charity which focused on reasons why people didn’t exercise regularly even though they ‘wanted’ to achieve related health and fitness improvements. The conclusion seemed to suggest that people considered visiting a gym or commencing a structured exercise routine as too daunting, resulting in resounding failure. It’s tempting to discuss the ins and outs of the nations desire to actually recognise where their shortcomings are or where they could improve but that’s for another time. The point is that

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Vegetarian diet. The step to Plant Power!

I’ve always believed that spur of the moment lifestyle decisions are often the ones that are most reliable, in tune with our inner self and less likely influenced by someone else’s agenda or that of the masses (the sheep factor). So when, three weeks before Christmas, I decided to eliminate meat intake from my diet and become vegetarian, I wasn’t at all daunted by the annual turkey and pigs in blankets festive binge period looming large on the horizon. Why the change? I didn’t go into it feeling like I was going to be denying myself anything. I had recently

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Get Your Bike Set-Up Right!

Professional Bike Fitter Dan, of Midland Bike Bit discusses the importance of setting a bike up correctly, injuries and ailments it can otherwise cause and tell tale signs that your current bike set-up may need adjustment. “As a bike fitter, I see a slightly ‘skewed’ cross section of cyclists that come to visit the studio – at least 75% of the clients that visit are suffering to some degree when they ride their bikes. We hear about all kinds of aches, pains, niggles and quirks during our pre-fit interviews that are causing you to feel uncomfortable on your bike.” If…...

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Born To Run. Born For Action.

Born to run. Born for action.   Are we wasting the gift of our incredible human body? Something that has been fine tuned to perfection by virtue of over 4 million years of evolution to enable us to, for instance, outrun any other mammal on earth over long distances? It was only incredibly recently in history that the large majority of us humans have been freed from having to do physical activity in order to survive. As hunter gatherers our bodies evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to be capable of walking or running at least 12-15 km per…...

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