ridecamp@endurance.net: [endurance] Walking or resting?

[endurance] Walking or resting?

Wendy Milner (wendy@nsmdserv.cnd.hp.com)
Thu, 28 Mar 96 9:51:48 MST

Walk your horse. Early research showed that the horse's heart rate
came down faster at a walk than at a complete rest.

Also, consider what we were taught in physical ed during school,
you just don't stand around after hard exercise, you walk so your
muscles don't cramp up.
>
> I would like some opinions on whether you should walk or stand and rest your
> horse after you have RUN up a long hill and your horse is breathing hard, is
> sweaty (wet) and it is either cold or hot outside. You would be walking down
> hill or flat if you kept going.
>
I have one training hill that is long and steep - even the mountain
bikers get off and walk. I keep Drake moving at a trot all the
way up the hill. At the top, he gets a 30 second break, then we walk
on. I use the break to get myself out of climb mode and into relax
mode.

--
Wendy


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