Hourdebaigt, Jean-Pierre

Improve your seat and enhance your riding experience! Through clear explanations and photos of each exercise, The Rider's Fitness Guide to a Better Seat helps you achieve a good basic position that is centered, aligned, balanced, and relaxed. An improved set will help you eliminate back pain and post-riding soreness, lessen fatigue, enjoy riding more, minimize the risk of injury, and improve your performance. Inside you'll find: Three full exercise routines for beginner, intermediate, and advanced fitness levels, all requiring just minutes a day - Exercise programs that do not require special equipment, so you can do then at home, in the barn, or on the go. After just ten days on the beginner program, you'll feel a difference in your seat; after a month on the intermediate program, you'll have a New Seat; the advanced program offers lifelong maintenance to ensure your continued riding pleasure and improved performance.

Spiral Bound    155 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Purves, L.

This is the definitive guide on fitness training for both horse and rider, without the use of a gym. Linda Purves gives a wealth of practical, effective, sport specific exercises designed to take both horse and rider from fat to fit and from out-of-condition to competition- ready. The simple, yard-based exercises, all illustrated with photographs, make fitness training fun and accessible to riders of all abilities. The comprehensive training programs cater for all levels and take the rider progressively from the beginner in the riding school through to the advanced demands of competitive riding. Specific detail is provided on a wide range of equestrian disciplines including eventing, polo, endurance, dressage, and show jumping.

Hard Back    182 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Henderson, C.

To get the most from your horse, whether he is an event horse, endurance competitor, riding club all-rounder or a pleasure ride, he has to be fit for the job, both physically and mentally. Getting Horses Fit shows you how, with in-depth information and practical, real-life case histories. Topics include: -Assessing your horse - Health and condition - Disciplines and their demands - Feeding for fitness - Environment management - Building strength and suppleness - Interval training - Tack and equipment - Traveling and competing - Lunging and long-reining - Poles and grid-work - Hands-on techniques - Diet and fitness for riders - The mental approach. With insights from successful riders, both professional and amateur, it shows the importance of a holistic approach to fitness and how every rider can achieve it.

Hard Back    228 pgs.    Added 2008
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Rachen-Schoneich

Teaching both ground and in-saddle schooling techniques, this guide explains a revolutionary holistic system for straightening horses' bodies. Poor performance, bad behavior, and a decline in physical well-being all result from ingrained crookedness, which accounts for 95 percent of all movement problems in both pleasure and sport horses. Exploring a variety of issues—including where crookedness comes from; the basic anatomy and physiology of the moving horse; how incorrect training affects the health, strength, and temperament of the horse - his guides complete training program will help riders and their horses achieve true straightness.

Hard Back    160 pgs.    Added 2008
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Hendrickson, A. And J. W.

The book provides all the practical information needed to understand the diagnosis, treatment, and pain management related to a rider's back problems, whether they are inherited, or caused by riding, trauma, illness, posture, and aging. Dr. Warson breaks down the physics of movement and explains how combing two separate bodies - human and horse - creates additional sources of potential back strain and injury. Step-by-step instructions and photo series for 18 stretches and exercises provided a do-it-yourself physical therapy plan for those already dealing with back pain and, more importantly, help improve rider flexibility and strength to prevent the onset of a problem. In addition, you'll find useful tips for stress-free saddling up and mounting, ideas for taking the strain out of barn chores, and a special section devoted to recommendations for pregnant riders.

Hard Back    170 pgs.    Added 2008
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Bell, J.

A masterclass of 101 exercises from 12 of the best riders and trainers from the worlds of dressage, jumping and eventing, this book combines the winning formula of Jaki Bell's previous bestseller, 101 Schooling Exercises, with the additional benefit of a range of top advice from the experts. Whether your goal is competitive success, or you are simply looking for inspiration to improve your schooling, this anthology of exercises has something great to offer.

Hard Back    217 pgs    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Dyer, L.

Equine Injuries, Illness, and Time Off require a thoughtful approach to the horse's eventual resumption of exercise and return to an active riding schedule or competition. Whether recuperating from injury or simply reconditioning after a period of inactivity, Back to Work provides what a rider needs to help her horse make a complete comeback. It offers advice from 11 veterinarians and equine professionals, and relates the personal rehab journeys of more than 40 amateur riders as they juggled their lives to get their horses back to full recovery. Find in-dept explanations of current medical procedures, recommended therapies, and detailed week-by-week plans for successfully bringing a horse back from an extended layoff. In Addition: Six riders struggle to get back into the saddle after serious injury or illness. They detail their recovery programs providing tips, solutions to setbacks, helpful therapeutic advice, and exercise time-lines.

Hard Back    389 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Dulak, J.

In this beautiful new book, dressage rider Janice Dulak has compiled a program of Pilates exercises specifically designed to help the dressage rider enhance her ability for success in dressage. While they use different terms, both Pilates and dressage share an emphasis on the torso, or Power- house in Pilates- speak, and achieving core strength, good posture and muscle flexibility. The goals of a Pilates program are often identical to what riders try to achieve in the saddle- in the sport of dressage. The exercises in this book have been culled from over 500 Pilates exercises, and have been specifically chosen to best suit the needs of the dressage rider. Clear photos and detailed instructions clarify each exercise. Written with the input of physical therapist Katrin Haselbacher, Pilates for Dressage Riders is a must reading for any serious student of dressage.

Hard Back    152 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Stewart, D.

This is not a dry text full of boring workouts to be endured. All of Daniel's improvement techniques are presented in an easy-to-understand, lighthearted manner. The many fun exercises - often done with balls, large and small, on balance boards, and with other riders - are clearly shown in color, and much of the information is presented concisely in humorous sidebars. Follow through with his program as presented here, achieve a truly balanced frame and frame of mind, and you'll become a more confident and successful rider with the added bonus of knowing that the biggest reward will be your newly comfortable, balanced - and grateful - horse! Finally, a sport-specific, personal training guide to help equestrians become physically and mentally fit to ride.

Paper Back    192 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Cuomo, N. C. And Whittle, M.

Cuomo's and Whittle's mounted and unmounted yoga, longe line, and independent riding exercises are guaranteed to help riders of all ages and disciplines develop body awareness and strengthen their riding abilities. Unique, proven, easy to follow lessons will help you. Improve balance, overall awareness, strength and flexibility - Increase your freedom of movement - Learn focus and body awareness - Breathe correctly and freely at all gaits - Learn to open up your hips, chest and heart areas for correct posture - Increase confidence and trust in your mount, and much more!

Paper Back    67 pgs.    Added 2008
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Shaw, J.

Use Tai Chi principles to awaken your natural balance and rhythm.

Paper Back    224 pgs.    Added 2007
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Champion, L And Bouvier, A.L. And Chadwick, L.

If you're ready to unlock the secrets of easy, natural riding, let Riding from the Inside Out show you how! This unique book combines the talents of an exercise specialist, and innovative physical therepist, and truly gifted rider. Together, they have created a whole new exercise and stretching program to practice off the horse that is guaranteed to improve your performance on the horse - for good. The Physiocise method is an exercise-therapy system proven to rectify common compensation patterns that prevent riders from impoving their technique. Filled with instructive color photographs and accompanied by an audio CD with step-by-step instructions for key exercises and a simple tool called a bottom clencher to aid in performing some of the movements with precision, this is more than a guidebook - it's a fitness package.

Paper Back    112 pgs.    Added 2007
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Vogel, C.

Improve the performance of your horse by following these sound principles of care and management provided by respected Equine vet Colin Vogel.

Paper Back    192 pgs.    Added 2007
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Juris And McCullys

Being strong and fit is the key to achieving the ultimate goal of oneness with your horse. Now, with The Rider's Fitness Program, you can practice skills at home or in the gym that will bring you closer to this goal when you're in the saddle. This unique, six-week workout routine is designed specifically for equestrians. Each exercise will help you build the strength, endurance, and skills that will enhance your riding experience. Novice and weekend riders will appreciate the exercises designed to reduce aches and pains and prevent injuries. Returning riders will find that these workouts refresh their muscles' memory until they are up to speed again. And experts will discover new ways top hone their skills off the horse. No matter where you stand on the riding spectrum, The Rider's Fitness Program will help you get in shape - physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Paper Back    218 pgs.    Added 2005
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Midkiff, M.

In Fitness, Performance and the Female Equestrian, Mary D. Midkiff, a rider and horse business professional, offers a new perspective on the way horses are understood, equipped and ridden by women. She joins with other experts to take us though the changing dynamics of women on horseback, arriving at a new approach to riding effectiveness. Women now represent over 80 percent of today's horse enthusiasts and riders. The techniques equipment and teaching methods used with horses, however, have not moved in step with the growing involvement and influence of adult and young women. Until now.

Hard Back    206 pgs.    Added 2005
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Stewart, D.

Balance your frame and your frame of mind with an unmounted workout and sports psychology system

Paper Back        Added 2005
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Blignault, K.



Spiral Bound        Added 2004
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Benedik, L. And Wirth, V.

Whether one rides western reining patterns, dressage, or the trails, this new program of yoga for equestrians will help every rider build a stronger mind body connection for improved riding. Yoga integrated with horsemanship teaches and produces desirable rider qualities such as enhanced awareness, flexibility, balance, and correct breathing in rhythm with movement. The book begins with an introduction to the practice of yoga and the roles of meditation and visualization. The authors then move on to basic yoga positions (asanas) and breathing exercises (pranayama), followed by routines that focus on body areas that are particularly relevant to improving the riders seat and communication with the horse. All of the exercises are demonstrated with detailed photos, and warm up and cool down routines are provided that can easily be performed at home, at the barn, or at shows. The book concludes with some specially designed routines for mounted yoga.

Paper Back    172 pgs.    Added 2002
Category:  Fitness Conditioning

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Reilly, A. M.D.

It takes more than learning the technicalities of riding to become a competent equestrian. Now Dr. Ann Reilly shows how to do just that by pointing out common psychological stumbling blocks that hinder riders and steps to avoid them. She offers in depth discussions on motivation, confidence, concentration, and nutrition, and complements her analyses with exercises designed to help every rider achieve peak performance. Special sections on preparing for competitions in all the various riding disciplines will be invaluable to those seeking to improve their results in the show ring.

Hard Back    132 pgs.    Added 2001
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Shaw, J.

In this video you will learn seven warm up postures and a short Tai Chi form. Develop your mental focus and internal strength. Train your body to align naturally with gravity for maximum balance. Learn to recognize and release tension in the body. Create harmony, grace and suppleness between your body and mind, which leads to a stronger connection with your horse. His teaching is designed to give riders specific hands on tools to improve their riding. He shows riders how to focus on and connect their physical and mental energy, together with their intent to reach their riding goals.

Video Tape        Added 2000
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