Dressage exercises training

Dressage is imperative to build strong & consistent muscles in your horse. We will take you through 3 basic exercises you can do to improve..

The Refined Rider - Dressage - The turn on the forehand is a dressage exercise that can transform everything, yet many riders don't use it!

Sometimes planning and executing an effective schooling session can feel like a mission. To help you out, H&R has six great thirty-minute schooling plans to suit any horse

Why and when to introduce your horse to lateral work - While they used to be predominantly the domain of prancing dressage horses, lateral movements like shoulder-in and haunches-in offer unrivaled conditioning effects for almost any equine athlete. Exercise science has shown them to be on par with gymnastic routines like hill repeats and cavalletti routines in terms of muscle recruitment, with a bonus of altering motor sensory patterns. Below I will explain how and why you might consider…

Improve your strength for riding with these 7 key lower body dressage exercises for riders. Create better posture and balance for dressage .

Things are getting a little more complicated this week! We’re going to head into a bit more challenge with non-progressive transitions (specifically walk/canter/walk) and a walk/canter straig…

A discussion of this indispensable element in daily dressage training

To develop the horse symmetrically in body and limbs you can use gymnastic exercises. The core of the gymnastic exercises consists of the circle, shoulder-in and haunches-in. All the other exercises are derived..