Prepare your season: Monitor your progress

This webinar is part of 4 webinars to get ready for your upcoming endurance season. This is the last in the series.

In this one we look how we can see if we are increasing our fitness and how we can keep track of what we de.
Logging our work, and indexing some indicators of higher intensity work will help with that.

Continue reading
0
  5 Hits

EGB magazine 3 Using your HR monitor when training

A26A4104

In the previous blog, I told you about logging the distance, duration, average speed, and elevation of your training sessions. Adding indexes for climb and canter gives a selection of great parameters to compare training and see how you progress. But these numbers do not tell you anything about how your horse actually experiences the effort du...

Continue reading
0
  3064 Hits

EGB magazine 2 How to gauge the efforts of our horse in work

pic-2

In the previous article, I told you about the fuel efficiency of our horses, using a hybrid car analogy. Unfortunately, I won't be as anecdotal in this article but I'll try to illustrate where I can. So last time we learned that higher intensity work will use more of our horse's petrol: glycogen. And that glycogen is a depletable fuel source that c...

Continue reading
0
  1267 Hits