You Must Be Healthy To Get The Best Out of Horse Training

Can't catch your horse? Are you operating on an extreme sleep deficit. Go to sleep --come back--now your horse wants to be caught.

Horse not moving out as well since you sprained your knee? You are compensating for that hurt knee by shifting your weight confusing, and perhaps even causing discomfort, for the horse.

Horse is super spooky and scared of things that normally don't bother him. Are you under severe pressure and stressed to the point that it is impeding your ability to function. It's impeding your horse's ability to function too.

Exercise. Drink incredible amounts of water. Sleep. Take vitamins. Eat Sour Kraught every day and watch how much easier your horse is to handle.

Quick Tip # 83--Use the Big Rope

As often written, the best conditioning for hard riding is to ride hard. Certain other exercises really benefit a rider--barefoot jogging, kettle bell sessions, and posting on a large exercise ball really help with stamina and in building strength in riding muscles.

I just found a new one that I love--the battling rope--a 1.5 inch rope fifty feet long. There are a range of strength building exercises that can be done with the rope. Look up Battling Rope on you tube for examples.

Completely aside from conditioning for riding , it is important for older people to maintain their strength--you might end up having to tote around a hefty grandchild.

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Just A Pinch Of Leaven

Haily is moving to Georgia this week. Today will be my last ride with her until she comes to visit again. She has become a first rate teacher and young horse trainer.

My sadness at losing one of my favorite people ever is tempered by the fact that I am absolutely certain that when she is grown, and maybe even before, she will be teaching natural horsemanship to students in Georgia. She will show them why every horse and every person matters. She will show them how to properly care for horses. She will show them how to properly care for themselves.

And she will teach them how to properly care about others.

And what she has she will give away. And as she does so, she will create more people to give away what they have been given.

The revolution comes slowly.

One person at a time.

One horse at a time.

A Horse Lot Needs A Sound Track: The Beat, The Rhythm, The Blues

Natural horsemanship  provides the tools to understand life.

Music provides the tools  to tolerate life.