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RE: [RC] Rider Weight - Melissa Alexander

It is the riding that has GOTTEN me back on track to better fitness and
weight loss, and I could not have done it WITHOUT the riding.  

This seems to be true for me too. I and my instructor could see improvements
in my balance and flexibility within one week after I started going to the
gym. That makes it easier for me to motivate myself to get there. Also, the
more I work with various horses on the ground in training, the more I feel
the need to become fitter.

Thanks for the suggestions for getting the horse fit. My endurance prospect
is a just-about-to-turn-four quarter horse. I haven't ridden him yet, but he
was ridden some as a two- and young three-year-old, primarily by a tall,
fit, thin, but heavy man. I notice now that Blue is really sensitive about
his back. There aren't specific pain points, but he doesn't want to be
curried there and is skittish about my putting an arm over him. I wonder if
the person who rode him stressed those growth plates in his vertebrae? If
so, is there anything I can do about it now?

Melissa (herself a ranch-style quarter horse)





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