Goal Setting for showing horses Are you ready to show? With a ton of pressure to go out and show, many riders put it on their list to do but seldom get around to doing it. How do you get to the point you feel ready to go out and show your horse? The trick […]
Equestrian Rehab Rehab is not a word equestrians want to hear. Most horseback riders know what pain is. There are a ton of injuries that you can have happen to you when you ride a horse. Just today, my heel got clipped by my horse while hand walking around the barn; […]
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 […]
Unwind with Stretching part two Unwind by stretching isn’t that difficult to do if you make it part of your daily routine. Since the entire day increases tension on a persons physical structure, one should stretch daily. Waiting until it’s too late will have major consequences, especially to a horseback rider. We require elastic and […]
Keeping Your Legs Quiet in the saddle To keep the lower leg quiet in the saddle requires three points of stabilization. The three points of stability are ‘the seat’ of the rider and the ‘lower leg’ of the rider. One can just sit on the horse without much thought to their lower leg, but the […]