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Re: [RC] conditioning strategies :) - Jody Rogers-ButtramWell said Cindy. That is the point that I tried to make earlier. It isn't about riding their legs off....but just getting some time in and letting the ride itself be part of the conditioning. I am a fair weather rider....I HATE cold weather...main reason I live in Alabama, and then I still complain about cold. So, if I ride in the winter, it *might* be one weekend or so along. The rest of the time, the ponies are doing just that....resting. But once you have them in shape, go to a ride each month or so, they will hold their conditioning. And I also work full time, have a family, have to get Joni to Cross Country meets, take piano lessons myself, and so does Joni, live on a working cattle farm with a hubby that is responsible for ALL of that and driving a school bus, have aged parents living down the road from us, a broken vertebra and two shot knees. IT CAN BE DONE. Jody
Cindy Collins <c_collins@xxxxxxx> wrote: Oh, Angie! That's all way too much work. I just loan my horse out to the dressage queens and to my cowboy friend and they work him hard all winter. So, on the first ride of the season I am totally out of shape, but my horse is in the BEST shape of any horse in the area. He's spinning, screaming, rearing, trying to flip the reins over his head and I'm exhausted before I leave the camp. This is way more fun than all the work you are putting into getting a horse ready :) __________________________________________________
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