Exercise programes

[nightwish]

hi all.

do any of you plan your horses exercise plan weekly? or do you go with the flow and whats suits you on the day? for the ones who plan, what do you do everyday? x

[GinaGeo]

I don't plan, but I know roughly what I want to do. I intend to school twice a week, normally Sat and Tue, the Tuesday is a lesson. Go out in the trailer at least once to hack and the rest is done around the exercise track, transitions, lateral work and fittening work. Sometimes alone and sometimes in company. I aim for them to have one day off a week.

Some weeks I do this. Sometimes vile weather and college workload get the better of me and it slips. I don't go with a rigid mind set of what I'm going to do in each session, but always aim to improve something.

[Kerbeck]

I work my fell 6 times a week, this includes at least 1 hacking session (mostly hill work at walk and trot) 1 session on the pessoa, I have one hour long lesson per week and school another twice so that leaves either another hack or pessoa session, If the weather is nice though I hack as much as possible and school on my hacks, we are lucky to have clear wide roads that I can leg yield across, I may school for half an hour and then go out for a 40 min hack after to cool down. I also have an equilibrium massage pad that I put on medium for half an hour before each schooling session, cuts my warm up time in half and he is much freer, more relaxed and ready to work.