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Rider Fitness

Rider wellbeing is crucial in order to continue participating in riding and equestrian sports. That includes rider fitness, mental wellbeing, and overall health. Horse Illustrated topics include yoga, meditation, losing weight, exercises to do on and off the horse, improving core strength, riding into middle and old age, breathing exercises, battling back pain, not getting overheated in hot weather riding, how to eat better, and more. Learn tips and tricks for rider fitness and to get healthier and stay that way so that you can ride well into your golden years. Your horse will like having a healthy owner to depend on for his care, and a fit rider is a better rider.

Improve Balance to Prevent Riding Falls As You Get Older

As the risk of falls increases with age, find out what you can do to improve balance and stay in…

3 months ago

5 Functional Exercises to Improve Your Riding

Riding demands a dynamic blend of stability, balance, strength, and coordination to communicate effectively with your equine partner. To improve…

3 months ago

Core Strength for Equestrians

Have you ever wondered why core muscles are so important, especially for equestrians? Riding requires more than just leg strength…

4 months ago

Yoga Postures for Equestrians

As a longtime horsewoman, yogi, and author of Yoga for Riders, I believe that yoga should be accessible to everybody…

5 months ago

Energy Intelligence for Equestrians to Prevent Burnout

We hear a lot about “burnout” these days when it comes to work, but it can also happen when it…

8 months ago

There’s More to Horses Than Just Riding

Like many horsewomen, I started as a young girl obsessed with horses. Nights would bring dreams of riding across fields…

9 months ago

Brain Games: Equestrian Neuroscience

By tapping the power of neuroscience and the miracle of brain plasticity, spending just a few minutes a day practicing…

9 months ago

Groundwork for the Human

Groundwork can be an essential part of horse training and is quite beneficial to our equines for a variety of…

10 months ago

Harness Your Monkey Mind: Be More Mindfully Present Around Horses

Does time spent with your horse feel more distracted and scattered, rather than present and meaningful? If so, you’re not…

10 months ago

Equestrian Goal Setting

Being an equestrian and a horse owner is a time-consuming and expensive lifestyle. Because of this, it can be easy…

11 months ago