Re: Re: Simple question, maybe not so simple answer.

["Angie Nathe" <angie_nathe@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to all who responded to my question about conditioning.  I am sure 
you are right about overconditioning too because locally the folks who ride 
the 25's are doing a lot more work than what you have described.  I am going 
to try to ride every other day with one day being a longer one and one being 
dressage.  I think that helps for the rider getting burnt out too!  I don't 
know what I'd do without ya all!

Angie & Dakota


>From: "Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: "Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>
>To: "Stagg and Cheryl Newman" <staggandcheryl@earthlink.net>, "Angie Nathe" 
><angie_nathe@hotmail.com>, <ridecamp@endurance.net>
>Subject: Re: Re: Simple question, maybe not so simple answer.
>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 22:37:15 -0600
>
>
> > Really agree with what Sue said about dressage work.  We do that
>regularly,
> > particularly
> > with our young horses.
> >
> > Note that it's useful to make a distinction between training, teaching a
> > horse skills,
> > and conditioning, building up a horses body and cardiovascular system.
>For
> > the latter,
> > I believe that many of riders do too much conditioning and do not give 
>our
>
>
>Not to turn this into a mutual admiration society <g>, but I agree
>wholeheartedly with Stagg.  The more data we're collecting from endurance
>horses is suggesting more and more that overconditoned horses that start a
>ride worn down and stressed are at much higher risk of biomechanical or
>metabolic breakdown of some sort.
>
>Susan G
>

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