This webinar is part of 4 webinars to get ready for your upcoming endurance season. This is the 2nd webinar in the seriesIn this one we are starting to look forward to our upcoming season. Taking into account what we have done previous year and what we have learned from evaluating and assessing. Our action list and weak links will to a large ...
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This is the third in a new series of articles in which we will investigate the quality aspect of training and how to maintain a healthy, sound, and happy equine athlete. The first article touched on the basics and "riding in the box," and in the second I gave you information, tips and exercises for the practical quality aspect of training In this t...
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In the previous article, I told you about using your heartrate monitor when training. I hope you have found that helpful, and have started to use your heart monitor more. Not only to see when the HR drops low enough to vet, but also during training or other work to see how your horse responds to the intensity of the work you are asking it to do. In...
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This is a recorded webinar from the "Train smarter" trilogy of webinars, and it focusses on how every horse is different.You already know a lot of this because of the first series of tutorials, but it is always good to have it all in one talk.Enjoy
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This tutorial is an older one, with a lot of video content of examples of lunging. It describes how I lunge my horses, often using a chambon as I feel that helps horses develop their topline and work in a way that I want them to work during my rides as well.Enjoy!
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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...
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What a year. What a horse!A total of 8 rides ( 9 ride days) and 460 km (the most she's ever done), nearly 9000m (!!) elevation including the Golden Horseshoe 80 km and Red Dragon 80 km! In 2022 I have solely focused on competing Asphodele Larzac, my small (but huge ) amber champagne part bred Arab mare. So why is she both small ...
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They say oxygen is the source of life ,and of course that is correct, (nearly) all metabolism needs oxygen to perform. So we could say: More oxygen = better performance We could have a huge heart, the best muscles for the job and an unlimited supply of fuel. But without the oxygen, and with that the lung capacity to get oxygen to t...
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They say oxygen is the source of life ,and of course that is correct, (nearly) all metabolism needs oxygen to perform. So we could say: More oxygen = better performance We could have a huge heart, the best muscles for the job and an unlimited supply of fuel. But without the oxygen, and with that the lung capacity to get oxygen to t...
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This is the last in a trilogy about "Training smarter, not harder". In the first one we focused on how every horse is different, because of its ability, its weaker links, circumstances and management. In the second we talked about all aspects involving training and resting.
In this webinar, I will explain how you can combine the knowledge about your individual horse with all of its individual circumstances and use your knowledge about training to do it right.
Some circumstances and weak links require us to go slower, focus on specific work and prerequisites before we can safely increase training. And we also need to realise that the type of ride we are preparing for can require a different way of training (and sometimes even per individual horse)
I will tell you all about it in this recording:
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