Equine Rider Fitness

Good Morning Ladies and gents

The most important thing with any weight loss journey is small changes.

The most important thing about long lasting change is that you need to do things slowly, if you try to go from A to Z in one day, you will never stick to it, you don't have the habits in place, you need to work through each phase slowly in order to have long last results.

So here's some ideas of where to start

Week 1 - Drink more water, literally that's it set a goal to drink atleast 2L or 2.5/3L if your breastfeeding

Week 2 - keep the water intake up and increase your protein, more protein = fuller for longer

Week 3 - keep up the 2 things above and add an extra cup of vegetables to your day

Week 4 - Add nothing and keep up the above

The most important thing is committing to the small changes. Remember we want long term, sustainable change.

Stretching and warming up is Important for every rider!!!

Using dynamic stretches for warming up and static stretches for post exercise or ride can make such a huge difference for horse and rider.

So what is the difference?

A dynamic stretch involves movement it is warming up both the muscle and the joint, a static stretch is just that static its a stretch that does not involve movement and is held for 15-30 seconds.

Static stretches should never be done with cold muscles, think of it like this, you put an elastic band in the freezer (cold) take it out and stretch it back and forth a few times, sure it won't snap the first time but small fibres will break and over time the elastic band will break down.

This is what happens when we use our muscles cold over and over again, eventually they will break down, a proper warm up and cool down is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and your horse.

Would you like to see a video on this?