Re: RC: Re: Conditioning Tips

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

Susan,

Are you talking about building bone, tendon., ligament or muscles. Muscle are
porbably the next easiest thing (maybe even easier) after the cardovascular. How
many 60 meter cirlcles would you have to do to get 3 years of  20 to 30 miles a
week on the trial. A 60 meter circle is a bit less than 1/8 of a mile, so we'll
give you the benefit of the doubt of 1/8 of a mile. So that would be 160 to 240
laps a weeks at a fast enough pace to make the difference. So let's split the
difference 200  laps.  Ingnoring the fact that the joints on the horse are not
designed to go in circles, if anyone wants to trot at a resonable speed for 200
laps of a arenna week after week, more power to them. Then I agree it is fine
conditioning for trotting 200 laps around a 60 meter circle.  Of course they
(horse and rider) might die of boredom before then.

Truman


Susan Garlinghouse wrote:

> Standard large dressage arena is 60' x 180'.  If you can't build some
> serious muscle doing circles and serpentines in an arena that size, you
> ain't doing it right.  Quality, not quantity.  Though I agree with Kat,
> doing nothing but arena work gets boring for the horse, and teaches them
> nothing about watching out for gopher holes, etc.
>
> Susan G
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