ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Conditioning

Re: Conditioning

Truman Prevatt (prevatt@lds.loral.com)
Wed, 7 Jun 95 09:23:09 EDT

One other thing to consider is the state of the horse's condition. For a
young horse you are bring into condition the first time then the
conditioning routine will need to be different than a veteran horse that
you are maintaining condition. Maintance of condition and peaking for
events doesn't require near the amount of time as bring on a new horse.
For a horse in top condition a couple of good workouts a week should
suffice- again depending on the horse.

If human distance runners trained like some people train their distance
horses, then their careers would be shorten because of such problems as
micro tears, bone spurs, stress fractures, etc from over work!

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The race is not always to the swift, but to those that keep running.

Truman and Mystic "The Horse from HELL" Storm

prevatt@lds.loral.com
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