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Cavalletti Exercises Colleen Brooks shows you how you can use cavalletti to improve both horse and rider and gives you exercises you can use at any time. ?Practical Horseman. All…
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Exercises to Teach Your Body New Patterns to Improve Your Riding.
…their bodies in relation to the game object very precisely. Conditioning coaches for these sports develop exercises to improve foot or hand and eye co-ordination. Gymnastics and skate are two…
Rider Exercises for Fitness
Participants at the Lingh.nl Tool Box Symposium were shown these Balimo??? exercises on the ground to stretch their bodies, allowing more freedom of movement and balance once they got back…
3 Saddle Stretches
…of your whole body to these exercises. • Explore. Murdoch offers questions to explore while you’re doing these exercises. Don’t worry about doing something “wrong.” Simply have fun, experiment, and…
Top 10 Exercises to Become a Better Equestrian
They say it takes seven falls to make a rider. But there’s a lot more to it than that. Check out this humorous list of 10 simple exercises that will…
Speed Control: Tortoise and the Hare
…learn some straightforward exercises that can help us do that. Set the Speed Dial Use starting and stopping exercises to instill a reliable go-forward cue. Squeeze, bump, and kiss to…
Controlling Movement (Part II)
…hasn’t budged. Last week I introduced the concepts of sensitization and desensitization and provided you with some desensitizing exercises to enhance trust and confidence in your horse. Click here to…
Controlling Movement (Part I)
…week’s article, I am going to stick to desensitization exercises. I will introduce sensitization exercises next week. Because the horses’ prey animal instinct brings about a natural suspicion of us…
Get Your Sluggish Horse Moving
…Jumping exercises are often extremely useful to increase a horse’s enthusiasm and mental speed. Some horses don’t naturally think, or react, quickly, but there is no shortage of exercises you…
Bonus Balimo Exercises
Here are some fun, easy and beneficial muscle-balancing and cross-coordination exercises from the Balimo™ (Balance In Motion) system developed by Ekart Meyners. They’re simple on-the-ground ways to make a real…