About This Site. This site is the website of motivational speaker Craig
Harper. A constantly updated, one-stop
information, inspiration, education and motivation
station. Unlike many similar sites, it is a totally
free resource for anyone who is serious about moving
from mediocre to amazing in any area of their
personal or professional life. With hundreds of
articles covering a wide range of subject matter,
great interviews with cool people and inspirational
video posts, there's more than enough brain-food to
keep you busy for hours. Okay, days!!
Enjoy.
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Public Speaking Workshop
- Craig Harper
If you've ever
thought about becoming a professional speaker or
improving your public speaking then this is the workshop
for you.
Life Coach & Mentor - Craig Harper
If
you are interested in maximizing your potential,
stepping out of that 'holding pattern' and being
privately coached by Craig click here.
Business & Career Coach - Craig Harper
If your a personal trainer, gym owner or studio owner who is interested
in growing your business and/or your career, then mentoring with Craig
could be a valuable part of your overall success strategy and
professional development journey.
Body Composition Analysis
- Craig Harper
Craig's
Qualified Exercise Scientists can provide you with a
complete Body Composition Analysis in just 30
minutes.
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life-long change is more about the
dieter, than the actual diet. This book is perfect for people who have a
history of 'almost' getting in shape.
In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. Many of us have a curious
ability to be able to get in shape for events (weddings, parties, reunions
and birthdays), if only we'd get in shape for life.
Food, Exercise, and Lifestyle
Diary -
Craig Harper.
If you're serious about your training,
nutrition, and lifestyle - Craig Harper's training diary is an invaluable tool.
The one thing that we all have in
common when we join a gym or start any new exercise
program is our desire to create physiological change.
Leaner, lighter, bigger, smaller, firmer, more muscular,
fitter, stronger, more flexible, less back pain, lower
blood pressure – we all join gyms and start new exercise
programs for a range of reasons but the common
denominator is that we want to be different. We want to
change something about the way our body works or looks.
Although most people train because
they want to change their body, the reality is that many
people spend lots of time, effort and energy lifting,
jumping, running, riding, rowing, punching and kicking
only to look ….the same.
Think about it.
How many people do you know who
exercise constantly (with the goal of changing their
appearance) yet always look the same (or very similar).
Plenty, I bet.
It may be someone you know well.
Very well perhaps.
People start exercise programs for
3 keys reasons:
1) To change the way they
look
2)
To change the way they
feel
3)
To change the way they
function
So why do some of us spend way too
much time, energy and effort in the gym (or any training
environment) for way too little return? The very simple
answer is that we don’t give our body a reason to
change. Our bodies are complex organisms which are
constantly responding (adapting) to stress. Exercise is
a form of physical stress. The trouble is that our body
will only adapt (get fitter, stronger, bigger, smaller,
lighter) when it needs to. If, for instance, you can run
five kilometres in twenty minutes, yet every day you run
five kilometres in twenty five minutes, your fitness
level won’t improve (in fact it may go backwards) even
though you are training every day. So too with the
person who wants to build muscle or strength, yet
typically lifts the same weights on the same exercises,
for the same reps and sets, with the same intensity, for
the same amount of time, day in, day out – forever.
This is the point of the discussion
where we need to differentiate between two types of
training programs.
Maintenance program – a program where we typically
stimulate our body with the same or similar
exercises, intensities and volumes. This is the
program we follow when we’ve decided that we’re
buffed and happy and just want to keep what we’ve
got! The truth is that many (and I mean a whole
bunch of) people in gyms (and outside gyms) are
following maintenance
programs and don’t know it. They do the same
type of training, on the same days, using the same
equipment, for the same amount of time at the same
intensity ….and then get frustrated when their body
doesn’t change
Progressive program – a program where we constantly
vary the type of exercise, sets, reps, intensity,
duration, overall volume and even training
environment. A program which is constantly
stimulating our body to change and adapt. This is
the training approach that most people should
embrace but don’t.
Sometimes we need to differentiate
between what we enjoy doing and what will work
best for our body; unfortunately they’re not always the
same. This might mean switching from the treadmill to
the stepper, a walk to a jog, the 3kg to the 5kg
dumbbells, the footpath to the soft sand, the flat to
the hills or the aerobics room to the weight room. So,
if your results have come to a standstill, perhaps it’s
time to get uncomfortable and do something different… or
do the same thing… differently.
Err… if you know what I mean.
Just remember:
if nothing changes (training stimulus), nothing changes
(your body)
Motivational
Speaker - Craig Harper Craig Harper is one of Australia's most respected
motivational speakers and educators. Some of Craig's recent clients include:
"We had our annual
conference over the weekend of the 23rd and 24th Feb, 2008 and we had
Craig Harper as one of our presenters. He was wonderful, funny and
professional, and he got our message through to the staff in a positive
and fun way. He was loved by all!"
DVD
- Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper
In this entertaining presentation, Craig discusses the
notion of Renovating Your Body - once and for all. (Also
available on CD).
Fattitude
- Craig Harper
While many books focus on food,
Craig Harper teaches that creating life long change is more about the
dieter than the actual diet.
Food for thought
- Craig Harper
In this book, Craig Harper
walks the reader through his 21 rules to Permanent Weight Loss.
So you've decided you want to get in shape (again)
- Craig Harper
Imagine a pocket-sized fitness book that takes just twenty minutes to
read. Craig Harper addresses the REAL getting-in-shape issues.
DVD
or CD - Renovate Your Body - Craig Harper
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Telstra
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Department of Infrastructure
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Simplot Australia
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Royal Children's Hospital
Fernwood Fitness Centres
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Brivis
Sensis
Western Water
South East Water
For more information on booking Craig click
here.Some nice words about Craig:
"We had our annual conference over the weekend of the 23rd and 24th Feb, 2008 and we had Craig Harper as one of our presenters. He was wonderful, funny and professional, and he got our message through to the staff in a positive and fun way. He was loved by all!"
Ally Memic, IMCD, Australia