Great advice. I love your fitness approach. I do one short steep hill after I ride down and up. Hills brought my horse back from fractured pelvis along with extensive rehab.
I've had luck with some horses like your mare by using gentle downhill gradients at a very slow walk encouraging the horse to unweight her shoulders shift balance to hind end. It's worth playing around with and let me know how it goes.
Super informative video ~ thank you for sharing your insights! I found you through Karen Rohlf. I just returned from a trip to the sports medicine vet and looking for exercises to build hind end engagement. My 21 year old Arab gelding has arthritis pretty badly in lower lumbar. This video has helped me to see that we want to work on very gradual hills. I’ve been using exercise #3 from your book 55 Correctives Exercises, walking in hand sideways along a hill and I can see that I’ve started off too aggressively with the steepest hills in our field.
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Very clarifying! Thanks so much!
Great advice. I love your fitness approach. I do one short steep hill after I ride down and up. Hills brought my horse back from fractured pelvis along with extensive rehab.
This is great timing. My horse has stiff stifles and slightly lame in his R hock. Would a moderate hill work best and for how long how often?
I recommend starting 10-minute exercises twice weekly on very mild hills
@@jecballou thanks so much!
Can hill work improve the lope for a 8 yr old mare that is rump high and in my opinion, doesn't bend her hind legs enough to have a smooth lope...
I've had luck with some horses like your mare by using gentle downhill gradients at a very slow walk encouraging the horse to unweight her shoulders shift balance to hind end. It's worth playing around with and let me know how it goes.
Thanks, I will try that..just happen to have hills at home!
@@jecballou
Super informative video ~ thank you for sharing your insights! I found you through Karen Rohlf. I just returned from a trip to the sports medicine vet and looking for exercises to build hind end engagement. My 21 year old Arab gelding has arthritis pretty badly in lower lumbar. This video has helped me to see that we want to work on very gradual hills. I’ve been using exercise #3 from your book 55 Correctives Exercises, walking in hand sideways along a hill and I can see that I’ve started off too aggressively with the steepest hills in our field.