This is a discussion on Does Anyone Know within the Dressage forums, part of the Riding Horses category; Originally Posted by MyBoyPuck
I just read the latest issue of Practical Horseman. There's a Jim Wofford artical in there ...
I just read the latest issue of Practical Horseman. There's a Jim Wofford artical in there about preparing for a classic. Even though very few of us will probably ever do one, he had a very simple theory for conditioning horses.
"Walk for muscle, trot for balance and canter for wind". If you want more muscle and topline on her, it sounds like the best thing you can do is march her around uneven terrain for a good 30 minutes a day. In the article he clarified that it must be an energtic on the bit type of walk, parade marching style. Sounds like usually the rider comes home more tired than the horse, but he seems to swear by it for building topline. I'm going start doing it more with my TB. Nothing bad can come from more muscle!
That sounds good but we don't have any un-even ground around here. We live on a dairy farm and its really flat. We do have an arena and that has quite deep sand though.
You have been given some good advice, I just wanted to add please don't left-right-left-right (see saw). Your horse's nose will start to do it on its own, and it is a fairly incorrect way of riding.
You have been given some good advice, I just wanted to add please don't left-right-left-right (see saw). Your horse's nose will start to do it on its own, and it is a fairly incorrect way of riding.
A friend who I saw at a show told me to do that but Flick is such a sweetie that I couldn't even think about doing that to her. She tries her hardest to please so the though of that is just wrong.
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