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 ...
There are five main personality types. Each horse has a basic personality type or a mix of 2, that is continually affected by external factors. Every horse actually possesses characteristics from all types, so it is normal to find a bit of a mix. Fill in the questionnaire and answer YES if this really applies to your horse. No if it is not, or only...
Day 5: Summary Task: Bring together your findings from the previous days. Summarise the key areas for improvement and note any resources or support you may need going forward. Use this summary to help plan your next steps in strengthening your partnership with your horse. Look at the findings of task 1, has this given yo...
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...
This webinar is part of 4 webinars to get ready for your upcoming endurance season. This is the first in the series.
In this one we look back on our previous season and all your work in that year to find how everything went, look at weak links we can find in our horse, ourselves and possibly our circumstances and come up with an action plan to work and improve on these in the winter months and during our conditioning phase.
Avoiding injury: The delicate balance that is the happy high level endurance horse This webinar discusses what you need to look out for to avoid injury where you can. Part of the webinar series "Upping the endurance game"