Challenge Zone
Be Your Strongest Opponent!
Be Your Strongest Opponent!
At the heart of the TrueSapien Culture is the desire to reject mediocrity and to CHALLENGE LIFE.
CHALLENGE is the CATALYST for GROWTH and SELF IMPROVEMENT
and the place for challenge is HERE:
The Band Of Orange CHALLENGE ZONE!
Challenge You!
See The Challenge
Observe TrueSapien challenges,
learn and BE INSPIRED!
Meet The Challenge
Accept AND participate in challenges, push your limits
and find progress
Set The Challenge
COMING SOON!
Set your own challenges
and challenge others!
Running & Cycling Club
Check out how you and other TrueSapien’s are doing in the TrueSapien Running and Cycling Clubs (powered by Strava)
Running & Cycling Club
Check out how you and other TrueSapiens are doing in the TrueSapien Running & Cycling Clubs (by Strava)
Challenge Zone
Challenge Zone
Where CHALLENGE comes to LIFE.
The purpose of the Band Of Orange Challenge Zone is FOR YOU TO INSPIRE and BE INSPIRED.
We’ll lead the way, with challenges undertaken by our resident TrueSapien Ben. Watch how he takes on Lifestyle, Nutrition, Fitness and Organised Event challenges, providing useful FEEDBACK and INSIGHTS.
Adopt these challenges yourself or be inspired to devise your own; with a view to LEARNING, SHRINKING your DISCOMFORT, or GET YOU CLOSER to your overall goals.
The TrueSapien Running Club and TrueSapien Cycling Club
Join our Clubs in Strava and monitor your own progress, and that of your fellow members and TrueSapiens RIGHT HERE! We’ll provide recognition for notable achievements, hold regular competitions and even offer REAL AND VIRTUAL AWARDS!
Be TrueSapien. CHALLENGE LIFE!
Oh Hi HyRox! I Am TrueSapien – Matt Wilkinson
Hi I’m Matt Wilkinson, (or @themightywilko on Insta). I’ve always loved a challenge, whether it was swimming for my town as a young teenager, racing mountain bikes at Uni (and smashing myself to pieces when I fell off!), or climbing Kilimanjaro. My History I’d never been much of a runner. I did it, but mainly in order to play other sports. That started to change when I went back to Uni in 2010/11 and signed up to run the London Marathon. My single goal there was to beat a friend of mine who had been in the Navy, a feat
C19 Challenge For Royal British Legion Part 3
Welcome to the third and final part of the account of my participation in the C19 Challenge. A way I thought I could put my personal challenges to some good use and help raise funds for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. The idea of these short, bite sized workouts, is to put everything into each and every one. They are as demanding as the effort you put into them, proving home workouts can be simple, short but still effective. Let’s see how the final 3 workouts went. Workout 5 (09/11) 20 minutes, as many rounds as possible 10 Leg
C19 Challenge For Royal British Legion Part 2
Part 2 of my participation in the C19 Challenge, having decided to put my personal challenges to good use by raising some money for Royal British Legion. Remember, the idea is to put everything into these simplified, mini workouts. They may be short but if you put it all in then they certainly are demanding! Let’s see how the next 2 days went… Workout 3 (07/11) ‘Chipper For Time’ 100 jumping lunges (each side), 80 butterfly sit ups, 60 burpees, 40 jack knives, 20 side to side press ups (each side). If I’d been fresh this workout would have been
The C19 Challenge for Royal British Legion
I decided to support the C19 Challenge and put my personal challenges to good use by raising some money for Royal British Legion. These workouts are designed with simplicity in mind so they can be done at home. But don’t be fooled…..they are tough! The idea is to put everything into each one and leave nothing out there! So let’s see how it went. Workout 1 (05/11) 22 minutes, as many rounds as possible 20 Hollow Rocks, 5 Chest to floor, 20 Unweighted Thrusters, 5 Chest to floor. Overall this went well. Nice mixture of movements and the Hollow Rocks
The 48 Hour Fast Challenge
The challenge was simple. To not eat or drink, other than coffee and water, for a 48 hour period. The thought behind it My 48 hour fast challenge isn’t about following any sort of trendy fad. It was nothing to do with ‘detox’ or anything to do with intermittent fasting. So why did I fast for 48 hours? Simply to see if I could do it. How it would make me feel, physically and psychologically and to test myself. The planning (or absence of it) 5pm on a Thursday evening. Finish my meal and decide to start the 48 hour
5K Run PB Attempt
The challenge is simple. To set a 5K run PB. There are many conflicting opinions on PB’s and their relevance to achieving long term goals. That’s not for me to discuss here. There can be no argument though, that as an occasional and planned measure of progress, they do have their place. Background Having spent most of this year confined to the house with only occasional training runs outside my training hasn’t been ideal. Coupled with no races to really hone that running fitness, it’s left me flat and slightly bored of training. However this seemed like the perfect opportunity…...
Ben
Spartan Racer, Ultra Runner, Challenger of Life. I got into sport later in life than some but I’ve never let that be an excuse. Swimming, skateboarding, powerlifting, cycling, running, Obstacle courses, endurance, boot camps, ultramarathons have all crossed my path and they all have one thing in common. They challenge me. Anyone that knows me will attest to the fact that I am a VERY competitive person but your toughest competition is always yourself. My goal is to push my limits to the breaking point, pick up the pieces and push them again. I will fail, probably more than I succeed, but I won’t stop.