This autumn we've been working hard to make a printed workbook for your training. Many of you enjoy the online information provided by our Online coaching courses "Endurance: Step by Step" and the "Endurance: Train smarter" or our webinar series "Prepare your season" and the "Midsummer progression".These include online worksheets, but the ide...
Day 2: The Horse – Body and Movement Task: Assess your horse's movement and physical condition. Identify your horse's strongest gait or exercise, and specify an area you would like to improve or find challenging. Take into account any conformational issues, previous injuries, or other risks, and evaluate how your horse's ...
Day 4: Season's Reflection Task: Review the season you have just completed with your horse. Identify any obstacles or problems you encountered, as well as things that went particularly well. Consider what may have contributed to these positive and negative outcomes, looking for underlying causes. In order to become a bet...
Day 3: Rider Task: Reflect on your own role as a rider, manager, and partner. What are your strengths, and what areas could benefit from further development? This could include riding skills, training knowledge, mental challenges, fitness or weight, or even time management. We as riders (and carers) of our horse influenc...
This webinar is part of 4 webinars to get ready for your upcoming endurance season. This is the third in the series.
In this one we look at the theoretical background of training for endurance, the different phases of our training season and how to turn that into a training plan that works for you and your horse with your own unique set of circumstances, abilities and weak links.
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 ...
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...
This is the second 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. While logging miles is important, the manner in which we do so is equally, if not more, crucial. The first article touched on the basics and "riding in the box," and in this insta...
I'm thrilled to write another 4 articles for you (if you have missed the previous ones about "Fuel efficiency", "How to gauge the efforts of our horse in work", "Using your HR monitor when training" and "The fitness plateau", have a look at the older blogs on the website. The first of every year (art 1 and 5) are on the normal blog space, for ...
I'll let you think on that question for a moment, and while you are thinking about the type of equestrian you are, also think on whether you are happy being that type or if you perhaps want to be different? Many of you will be the "Passenger type" maybe even without realising you are...Or perhaps you know you are the passenger type a...
Making your training schedule can be hard: how much should you train, what rides to do, what about tapering, rest and other things you need to consider to compete your horse happy and healthy? Groen Equestrian can help. We have a lovely package to help you:3 recorded webinars and 2 30 minute face2face zoom sessions to give you the th...
This webinar focuses on how to avoid elimination. Because although we often like to contribute elimination at rides to bad luck, more often than not it is something that could have been avoided.
In this webinar, I will try to make you aware of the factors that can contribute to elimination, so you can work on avoiding those. Both in training AND during your actual ride.
It is quite a long webinar with loads of information. It is in2 parts because of a little blib in my wifi connection but that will give you a nice break as well (though the 2nd part is the longer one!)
My audience in this webinar was mostly novice or a little more experienced, but I feel this is a webinar that would really benefit those that are looking to up their game in distance and/or speed or in technical challenges.
This is part 2 of an older webinar focussed on riding and riding exercises I feel are beneficial for endurance horses. This is part 2 of this webinar, you will find the 1st here: This webinar in 2 parts explains the basics I work from, it features pictures and video's of examples and hopefully these will help you with your own ridin...
This is part 1 of an older webinar focussed on riding and riding exercises I feel are beneficial for endurance horses. This is part one of this webinar, you will find the second here: , Thus webinar in 2 parts explains the basics I work from, it features pictures and video's of examples and hopefully these will help you with y...
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!
This is an older webinar previously recorded which will give you some help with a good quality of riding when you are training your horse.Enjoy!
This is an old piece (4 years ago to be precise) I wrote after being part of the Dutch team for the 2019 European Championships. It still resonates very much with me, especially now I have taken a little break from endurance until the youngsters are old enough to start. Watt and me will be doing other fun stuff in the mean time. Have a read, s...
You would think that you would ride the same as you so in training as you would when competing and this can be the case, but it needn't be. Especially for longer distances that have more challenges you would want to make sure you keep your horse with enough energy to finish the ride safely. In our training we should primarily focus on stamina train...
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 ...
