Groundwork Exercises for Your Horse
Groundwork Exercise 1: Longeing
Longeing can be used to develop engagement, build stamina, and enhance your horse’s range of motion.
Groundwork Exercise 2: Ground Poles
To develop impulsion, improve posture, and increase flexibility, try laying down some
ground poles
.
Groundwork Exercise 3: Backing Up
Backing up
is a deceptively simple yet useful exercise for activating your horse’s hindquarters, core, and back.
Groundwork Exercise 4: Bands
These bands are strips of slightly stretchy fabric that do wonders for developing engagement, symmetry, and range of motion.
Groundwork Exercise 5: Carrot Stretches
Stationary mobility exercises, AKA carrot stretches, are great for developing stabilization and core muscles.
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