What to Do in the Saddle Today? Planning Your Rides - Part 3: Developing or Training

Daily Strides Podcast for Equestrians

Is every 30-minute ride starting to look and feel the same for you? Even the ones that you painstakingly chose exercises to work on? Annoying, isn’t it? Especially because actually ‘moving forward' in your riding is the reason you are riding!

If this is the case, firstly, take heart that you’re not alone! Remaining focused throughout the day to day riding can really begin to wear on most well-intentioned riders after a while. And can even cause riding to begin dropping off your list of priorities…!

This is why I suggest a 3 pronged approach to developing your weekly riding plan in a way that keeps things interesting and moving forward...

A plan that will take you, clearly, on a path to your goals. Part 1 is to introduce regular intentional Fun to your riding. From there, Part 2 is working on deepening your Partnership with your horse. Which leads us to...

Part 3 - Developing

Doing the work. This is part that most riders are good at talking about, planning about, and even trying in the arena. You have probably found yourself on more than one occasion in the arena, exercise all mapped out in your head. And yet realizing, in absolute dismay, that it is just not coming together for you.

The key is to begin making ‘the work’ actually work for you and your horse!

Developing is another name for training. I personally believe that both horse and rider need training in order to move forward in their relationship. Often, most horse and rider combinations begin with one team member not being as advanced as the other. In this case, the more advanced or developed team members will help to ‘lift’ the other to their level. The schoolmaster horse or the more experienced rider.

However, at some point, most horse and rider partnerships will reach a level where they are now matching in their skills and abilities. And this can be where so many begin to plateau.

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Additional Links to Help You:-

• • • Planning Your Rides - Part 1 Fun
    • Planning Your Rides - Part 2 Partnership
    • Lunging for Riding
    • Online Community for Equestrian focusing on Planning and Mindset
    • Stop Wasting and Start Investing Time with Your Horse
    • What’s Your Number in Your Riding?
    • A Plan for 7 Days in Your Riding
    • Plan Your Ride with These Simple Steps
    • Transform the Next 12 Weeks in Your Riding
    • Connection; the Online Membership for Equestrians