Prepare For Your Ride With A Warm Up  ‘COLD’ MUSCLE  If you’ve ever got onto a cold horse to ride, then you know it’s not comfortable. A cold horse can feel like a stiff cow and until the horse gets warmed up, there’s not much you can do except add a joint supplement. Some horses […]

What drives you as an equestrian athlete to better you and your horse?  Do you find yourself wondering why your horse moves this way, or maybe acts up when asked to do certain things? What about you? Could there really be a way to become more aware of how you and your horse are moving […]

Unwind with Stretching  part one If you ride horses 2-3 days a week, you get tight and sore. It doesn’t even matter if your in shape and regularly cross training. There’s going to be that one ride that crushes your physique and that’s because riding horses to their peak performance tests the endurance of the […]

Strength For Jumping Horses Weekly Fitness Routines Can Help Your Jump Specific muscles engage to counterbalance and support the body of a horseback rider over the jump or fence. As the horse takes off from the ground, the core of the rider should self support. Using ones own physical strength helps self support over the […]

Sitting on a horse turning in a circle; a large circle or a volte (10-8 meter circle) but a circle nonetheless, no straight lines.  The center of a rider needs to stay balance on the horse as the pair is turning. For the horse to remain balanced through the turning, a rider’s core and seat […]

Read first and then try the visualization below…. Close your eyes for a moment sitting up in a chair and imagine that you’re sitting on a horse approaching a turn or corner of the arena. Feel the muscular control that you would engage if you were actually riding.  Imagine how the inside leg near the […]

How many of you struggle with having endurance in the sitting trot? How many of you struggle with strength in your legs in the sitting trot? How many of you just struggle with the sitting trot? Not only do you have to sit the trot but you also must also perform movements. That all combined […]

The seat of a rider must allow a horse to move freely forward but also demand a walk or halt transition on cue. Most of the time a rider who is weak moving a horse forward lacks strength in the hamstrings or back of thighs. A rider who is weak getting a horse to do […]

Let’s Workout! Sometimes those are words you love to hear and sometimes they are not. It can be very hard to motivate yourself into working out but in the end you know it is good for you. Well at least you hope that is enough to motivate you… Working out can start to become a […]

To gain stability back when you lose it in the tack will require compensations to occur. The only way to regain stability on a horse is to use your core, there will be no negative impact the horse, meaning you will not shut the horses energy down.  Most horseback riders tend to regain their balance using […]