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What you failed to mention also is the strength endurance riding at a brisk 
trot builds in the muscles of the back and the abs.  And definitely the 
legs.

Barbara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diane Trefethen" <tref@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] Rider doesn't do anything


> Maybe the problem that most observers have is that riding horses doesn't
> add much to upper body strength, you know, those big biceps.  What they 
> are
> missing is the considerable strength it adds to our legs.
>
> When I got back into horses after the start-a-family thing, I was playing 
> B
> League softball at the Rec.  Early on I met an Endurance rider and started
> conditioning with her (she didn't tell me we were conditioning; we were
> just riding for fun).  After a few months I realized that my swing had
> improved and I was routinely hitting deep balls to the chagrin of the 
> other
> teams' outfielders who only saw a puny little woman at bat.  When you hit 
> a
> baseball with your upper body, a la Barry Bonds, you are muscling it and 
> do
> indeed need a huge amount of muscle power to do well.  But when you hit 
> the
> ball off your legs, you can get more consistent results with far better
> ball placement.  Hmmm..  if that is true for Baseball, I bet it's true for
> Golf too.
>
>
>
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