“Ten Tips For Training Your Horse”
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This interview was previously published in 2018 Dr Jane Williams 2 (350)
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“Ten Tips For Training Your Horse”
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“Ten Tips For Training Your Horse”
1. Have a target/s for you and your horse and use these to set yourself long, medium and short term goal/s
2. Plan your training in line with your goal/s – don’t set out on a ride without a plan and knowing what you are doing that day
3. Structure your training programme in line with the principles of training:
a. Prepare your horse for competition: ensuring they are fit enough to cope with the demands of competition (or the exercise you expect them to do)
b. Develop your horse’s skills: this includes practicing task-specific skills (for example piaffe or shoulder in, or jumping), to develop their motor skills and improve their neural plasticity (practice makes more perfect!)
c. Prevent injury and increase career longevity through good preparation and using a planned training regime for you and your horse
4. Integrate a standard exercise test (SET) into your training regime to monitor how well your horse’s fitness is progressing: this can be a simple task / exercise route which can be repeated at regular points within a training programme to assess your horse’s fitness
5. Invest in a heart rate monitoring system – these can help you assess your horse’s speed, workload, behaviour and help you measure how well your horse’s training is going
6. Video yourself and your horse regularly – this is a really simple way of using performance analysis
7. Train yourself as well as your horse – if you get fitter and stronger it will benefit your riding
8. Know the demands of what you want to do and prepare your horse for what is expected of them in competition – if you need to compete on grass than also practice / school on grass, if you need to canter downhill – practice this!
9. Don’t overdo it before a competition! If you work your horse really hard and they are fatigued it can take them up to 48 hours to fully recover and replenish their energy stores
10. Make sure you include a warm up and warm down in your exercise and competition routines
Time Stamps
00:40 – Background
02:06 – 1) Have a target/s for you and your horse and use these to set yourself long, medium and short- term goal/s
05:33 – 2) Plan your training in line with your goal/s – don’t set out on a ride without a plan and knowing what you are doing that day
09:36 – 3) Structure your training programme in line with the principles of training:
15:45 – 4) Integrate a standard exercise test (SET) into your training
20:06 – 5. Invest in a heart rate monitoring system – these can help you assess your horse’s speed, workload, behaviour and help you measure how well your horse’s training is going
29:48 – 6. Video yourself and your horse regularly – this is a really simple way of using performance analysis
33:26 – 7. Train yourself as well as your horse – if you get fitter and stronger it will benefit your riding
39:08 – 8. Know the demands of what you want to do and prepare your horse for what is expected of them in competition – if you need to compete on grass than also practice / school on grass, if you need to canter downhill – practice this!
41:38 – 9. Don’t overdo it before a competition! If you work your horse really hard and they are fatigued it can take them up to 48 hours to fully recover and replenish their energy stores
46:05 – 10. Make sure you include a warm up and warm down in your exercise and competition routines
48:56 – Summary
52:37 – Contact: see details below
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