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VETERINARY VIEWS
TRAINING PROGRAMS
Training is an on-going, controlled
process of steady increases in demand
that elicit progressive adaptations of the musculoskeletal system. When implementing a training strategy, expose your young
horse to various stimuli to improve every musculoskeletal component. This may be a combination of exercises including arena or round pen work at walk, trot, and canter, or hill work, cavalleti poles, or running free in pasture turn out. While training the various musculoskeletal tissues, one must not lose sight of the horse’s body as a whole working unit. Regardless of the athletic discipline to be pursued, there are basic starting points upon which to build a strong foundation.
When implementing a training strategy, expose your young horse to various stimuli to improve every musculoskeletal component such as round pen work at walk, trot, and canter.
Withholding exercise
in the first months and
Data indicates that unrestricted turnout exercise results in better bone density and reduced developmental orthopedic disease.
Linda Earley, Speedhorse
years most certainly predisposes a horse to a myriad of joint or tendon issues later in a horse’s athletic life.
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