Ridecamp: Re: [RC] leasing and how many days a week do you ride for a25?

Quoted from heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's message:
> You should ride every other day at most, and a 3-day-a-week program works 
> well for most horses, with two shorter rides followed by one rest day and 
> a longer ride followed by two rest days

Actually, it's important to put some back-to-back days in as well.  Tack 
problems and other problems that won't show up on conditioning rides - but 
*do* on endurance rides - will often make themselves obvious by riding two 
or three days in a row.  Additionally, I think you get more conditioning 
value out of back-to-back rides.  Consider how many people report that 
their horses actually improve in condition over the course of a multi-day 
ride.  If that's the case, *careful* back-to-back conditioning training 
will do the same.  Of course I'm not talking 7/week - you would have to 
schedule rest days just as carefully as work days.


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