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<< One of the most potent "nutrient" for athletics is plain old rest. Care
to
give us your views on over training and the rolls of the proper mix of
nutrition, training and rest?
Truman >>
Sure. Proper athletic conditioning involves minicycles (weekly) mesocycles
(monthly) , macrocycles (seasonal), and megacycles (yearly//career). These
are cycles of hard work, recovery, rebound and supercompensation. In order to
design an appropriate conditioning protocol for your horse you'll want to
know the animal's recovery cycle--in racehorses, body weight recovery is an
excellent indicator. When the horse is recovered, though, new hard exercise
must be applied in order to take advantage of supercompensation and move the
animal forward as an athlete. Simply giving "time off" just means a
deconditioning period where the animal loses fitness.
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