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...
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"
What was your first thought seeing this picture of Watt and me cantering on these gallops?Most thoughts will have been positive: a lovely bit of cantering, "oh I would love that", and some of you can nearly feel the air passing their face because you know how it feels to have a nice canter on a good surface.Snapshots like these: of a rider doing th...
So how do you know your horse is fit enough for the goal you have set? I'm afraid you'll never know for sure until you try… But I will show you some indicators about how to have a pretty good idea of how you are doing and what to check in this tutorial. You can never pre-empt everything that will come your way on a ride. But if you train well (usin...
So how do you know your horse is fit enough for the goal you have set? I'm afraid you'll never know for sure until you try… But I will show you some indicators about how to have a pretty good idea of how you are doing and what to check in this tutorial. You can never pre-empt everything that will come your way on a ride. But if you train well (usin...
The basic principles of training work for any type of training, strength, speed or stamina. But how we apply them and perhaps even more importantly, when we apply them wil determine what kind of athlete we are creating. Intrinsic factors always play a part: some have more sprint qualities, whilst others have the perfect genetic make up for long distance.
