by Mary | Jul 25, 2017 | Useful Tips
Natural riders make it look easy whilst others battle endlessly to sit and maintain a balanced posture. What is their secret? The elusive core! The key to good riding is core function and stability. It enables a rider to maintain a balanced position, that isn’t...
by Mary | Jan 9, 2017 | Useful Tips
Depending on our horse’s needs, a combination of exercises to improve mobility, core stability, balance and strength can be a useful addition to ridden exercises or as part of a maintenance or rehabilitation programme. I find a good mixture of mobilising, lateral...
by Mary | Dec 8, 2016 | Useful Tips
As riders, we are obsessed with the straightness of our horses….and should be! So much so that the phrase ‘straightness training’ is now very much in vogue and has given rise to many excellent articles, research papers, videos, and blogs – all listing the...
by Mary | Nov 8, 2016 | Useful Tips
I work with horse riders to help them gain a better understanding of how their own body stability and core strength can have a significant impact on their horse’s way of going. Good core strength is fundamental to effective riding in terms of application of the...