Podcasts about cavaletti

Dido Nitz unterhält sich mit Christoph Ackermann. Longieren ist ein weites Feld - vom bloßen "Herumschleudern" am Halfter bis zum gezielten Aufbau des Pferdes sehen wir alles in unseren Reithallen.  Möchtest du ein junges Pferd ausbilden oder die Rekonvaleszenz eines älteren begleiten? Mit einem Korrekturpferd neu starten? "Einfach nur" bewegen oder Muskeltraining? Was passiert, wenn sich das Pferd an der Longe anders verhält als es soll? Welche Ausrüstung ist vonnöten? Und natürlich die vieldiskutierten Streitfragen: Hilfszügel oder nicht? Kappzaum oder Trense? Mitgehen oder nicht? Um all das und noch viel mehr geht es in dieser Episode.Christoph Ackermann ist Dressurreiter, Ausbilder im In- und Ausland, Diplom-Betriebswirt und Verfechter der klassischen Reitlehre im Sinne der Ausbildungsskala. Der Inhaber der Condé Reitseminare war lange Jahre Meisterschüler bei Egon von Neindorff und ist Träger des goldenen Reitabzeichens. Seine Pferde bildete er alle selbst aus. Bei ihm definiert sich Erfolg zuvorderst in der Harmonie zwischen Reiter oder Reiterin und Pferd. Wobei das Wohlergehen des Pferdes immer an erster Stelle steht. Reiten mit dem Pferd und nicht gegen das Pferd, die Gesunderhaltung des Tieres sowie naturorientierte Gymnastizierung besitzen in seiner Ausbildung oberste Priorität.Dido Nitz ist nach vielen Jahren Programmleitung eines erfolgreichen Publikumsverlags als selbstständige Autorin, Lektorin und Beraterin für Programmgestaltung unterwegs. So lassen sich die Leidenschaft für Pferd und Buch nun auch professionell bestens verbinden, eine Kombination, die sie schon fast lebenslang prägend begleitet. In der equinen Praxis ist sie Freizeitreiterin und im regen Dialog mit ihrer wunderbar charakterstarken Lusitanostute Fior.Ton: Max Feichtinger, Tontechniker und Sattelhändler, eine spezielle Kombination, die in beiden Fällen feinstes Fingerspitzengefühl für Balance erfordert! Als Tontechniker hält er die Töne im Gleichgewicht. Im Fall der Podcasts von Condé Reitseminare ist es sein erklärtes Ziel, das Zuhören so angenehm wie möglich zu machen, um vom Inhalt nicht abzulenken.Support the show

Erika Jansson är dressyrryttaren och tränaren från Sverige som nu mera bor i USA.  Erika börjar med att berätta om sin resa från att läsa på Flyinge till att arbeta i olika stall runt om i världen. Tillslut hamnade hon i Kalifornien där hon numera har sin bas. Idag håller hon träningar runt om i USA och även här hemma i Sverige. Erika har i över 20 år arbetat med just bom- och kavalettiträning. Vi pratar om hur man gör, vad man ska tänka på. vilka vinster man kan få av att gå över lite bommar ibland och mycket mycket mer!   Vill du veta mer kan du läsa mer här: https://www.cavaletticlinic.com/ https://www.ejdressage.com/ 

Erika Jansson är dressyrryttaren och tränaren från Sverige som nu mera bor i USA.  Erika börjar med att berätta om sin resa från att läsa på Flyinge till att arbeta i olika stall runt om i världen. Tillslut hamnade hon i Kalifornien där hon numera har sin bas. Idag håller hon träningar runt om i USA och även här hemma i Sverige. Erika har i över 20 år arbetat med just bom- och kavalettiträning. Vi pratar om hur man gör, vad man ska tänka på. vilka vinster man kan få av att gå över lite bommar ibland och mycket mycket mer!   Vill du veta mer kan du läsa mer här: https://www.cavaletticlinic.com/ https://www.ejdressage.com/ 

In this episode, we discuss why everything is hard (just kidding, no answers here. Why IS everything so hard?); behaviors, routines, and material acquisitions that are helping take the edge off; behaviors that reduce my daily annoyance level and make it easier to enjoy my dogs (stationing/crating from a distance, putting their own collars on, picking up my ear buds when they fall, especially under furniture, Cavaletti, front and back paw targets); routines (nail trimmers on same hook as leashes, feeding out of slow feeders, Zoom training meetups); and material acquisitions (dry erase sleeves, pony jet, Bissel machine, slime flat tire machine). For full show notes and transcript, visit: www.hannahbranigan.dog/podcast/168 This podcast is supported by Karen Pryor Clicker Training's Brand-New On Cue! Training Treats: clickertraining.com/treats

Hoje o Future Hacker recebe duas grandes referências da criatividade da publicidade Brasileira, Mauro Cavaletti e Domenico Massareto. Mauro é Diretor Executivo Criativo da Huge Latam e fundador da Bitnik Estratégias Criativas. Domenico é fundador da Rain , startup que ajuda no processo criativo movido por inteligência artificial. Eles irão falar sobre criatividade, desafios da profissão, interface, plataformas de conversação desenvolvidas por processamentos de Linguagem natural. Além disso, "algoritmos criativos”, potencial e limites da inteligência artificial, novas profissões, ética e os impactos da IA no mercado de trabalho. Vale a pena conferir !

Hallo und herzlich Willkommen zu einer neuen Folge Agility aufs Ohr, eurem ersten deutschsprachigen Agility Podcast. Mein heutiger Gast hat die Agility Welt mit revolutioniert, würde ich sagen, da sie sich etwas Neues getraut hat um den Sport noch bekannter zu machen und auch ein jeder trainieren kann. Sie hat 2009 eine deutsche Agility DVD auf den Markt gebracht, die es so in dieser Art noch nicht gab und das nach 2 Jahren unermüdlicher Dreharbeiten. So entstand aus 40 Stunden Rohmaterial eine 4- stündige, sehr umfangreiche Agility DVD. 13 Jahre ist sie nun mittlerweile schon alt, was für eine Entwicklung in einer Hundesportart eine lange Zeit bedeutet. Da die DVD für ihre Zeit sehr, sehr fortschrittlich war ist einiges aber immer noch aktuell. Sicherlich wird mittlerweile vieles ganz anders und moderner ausgebildet aber auf der DVD sind schon Sachen zu sehen wie eine perfekte 2on2off Position, runnings, 2x2 Slalom,Cavaletti, Sprungtraining, Clickertraining und warm-up & cool-down und man muss sich nun 13 Jahre zurück denken. Da war das alles nicht die heutige Normalität, sondern eine wahre Besonderheit. Es gab zu diesem Zeitpunkt keine Deutschsprachige Agility Ausbildungs- DVD die das komplette Training umfasst und verschiedene Trainingsmethoden (z.B. Gassenslalom, 2x2 Slalom, V- Slalom) aufzeigt. Des Weiteren war es ihr Anliegen einen Trainingsaufbau mit anderen Hunden, als dem Border Collie zu zeigen um auch diejenigen zu motivieren und begeistern, die einen Hund haben mit einem eigenen Kopf und nicht von Anfang an mit voller Motivation dabei sind. Diese zwei Hauptgründe motivierte meinen heutigen Gast die DVD aufzunehmen und danach zu veröffentlichen. Ihr ist es wichtig das der Besitzer mit wenig Aufwand Zuhause Basics trainieren kann. Mittlerweile haben viele Sportler einen eigenen Parcours im Garten oder zumindest einige Geräte, früher war dies aber eine absolute Ausnahme. Außerdem gibt es heute die Möglichkeit sich eine Halle zu mieten, damals gab es so etwas auch noch nicht. Sie legt Wert auf gute Ausbildung – Basics (Führtechnik, Zonen oder Sprungtechnik) gesunde Hunde, die auch mit und in dem Sport alt werden und Spaß für Hund. Seit 1999 ist sie selbstständig mit ihrer Hundeschule & Seminarzentrum und verwirklichte sich 2015 dann endlich ihren Traum einer eigenen Hundesporthalle in Dorsten. Ihre große Leidenschaft ist das Agility, welche sie mit ihrer Liebe zu der Rasse Border Collie optimal vereinen kann. Ich freue mich, dass die Herausgeberin der DVD Agility Denk& Renn heute mein Gast ist und uns mit auf ihre Reise nimmt. Herzlich Willkommen Melanie Lehmann Melanie findet ihr auf Facebook unter: https://www.facebook.com/melanie.lehmann.12327 Auf Instagram unter: https://www.instagram.com/melanie.lehmann.hsz.dorsten/ und im Internet unter: https://www.hundesportzentrum-dorsten.de/de Agility auf´s Ohr findet ihr auf Facebook unter: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000037824468 Auf Instagram unter: https://instagram.com/diessnerjan?igshid=tt06gdmbfcvh Und im Internet unter: www.agility-akademie.de

Download the free iPhone polework app. Download the free Android polework app. I'm Elaine Heney, a horsewoman, creator of the award-winning Listening to the Horse documentary & #1 best-selling author from Ireland. I hope that you've been enjoying this podcast episode. If you need help with your horse, here are some useful horsemanship resources I've put together for you: 110+ Polework Exercises - no more boring circles or arena work. Shoulder out training improve top line, balance, lateral work & collection. Dancing at Liberty includes 11 inspiring liberty video lessons. Beautifully Connected Give your horse the gift of trust & connection. TrailBrave challenge for spooky, herd bound or anxious horses Confidence Fix - TONS of lessons for anxious or worried horses The Listening to the Horse Method - The perfect way to improve your riding & partnership You're welcome to learn more about my work at www.greyponyfilms.com and don't forget to join our online community on Facebook. We also have some free online workshops coming up you can watch from the comfort of your living room. If you want to help your horse become more confident, grab a ticket for our free 5 Days to Confidence workshop. And if you'd like to improve your riding skills, I have the perfect workshop just for you! It's called the 5 Days to Partnership Workshop. I hope you see you there :) Thanks again for listening & see you in the next episode, Elaine Heney.

Roger from Green Flower Botanicals discusses how CBD oil dosage works and Coach Jenn has an exercise to help horse and rider improve straightness and lightness off the aids in upward and downward transitions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)

Roger from Green Flower Botanicals discusses how CBD oil dosage works and Coach Jenn has an exercise to help horse and rider improve straightness and lightness off the aids in upward and downward transitions.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)

SUMMARY: Lori Stevens is an animal behavior consultant, a professional dog trainer, a canine fitness trainer, an animal massage practitioner, and a senior Tellington TTouch® Training practitioner. She continually studies how animal behavior, movement, learning, fitness, and health all interact. She uses intimidation-free, scientific, and innovative methods, in an educational environment, to improve the health, behavior, performance, and fitness of animals. Lori gives workshops worldwide and has a private practice in Seattle, WA. She is also the creator of the Balance Harness. Lori's most recent of three DVDs by Tawser Dog Videos is co-presented with Kathy Sdao and called The Gift of a Gray Muzzle: Active Care for Senior Dogs. It focuses on improving the life of senior dogs. She teaches the popular FDSA course Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs, and will be introducing a new course this session called Helping Dogs Thrive: Fitness in Five. Links www.seattlettouch.com Next Episode:  To be released 1/26/2018, and I'll be talking to Chrissi Schranz about building reinforcers and recall training, so stay tuned! TRANSCRIPTION: Melissa Breau: This is Melissa Breau and you're listening to the Fenzi Dog Sports Podcast brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy, an online school dedicated to providing high-quality instruction for competitive dog sports using only the most current and progressive training methods. Today we'll be talking to Lori Stevens. Lori is an animal behavior consultant, a professional dog trainer, a canine fitness trainer, an animal massage practitioner, and a senior Tellington TTouch® Training practitioner. She continually studies how animal behavior, movement, learning, fitness, and health all interact. She uses intimidation-free, scientific, and innovative methods, in an educational environment, to improve the health, behavior, performance, and fitness of animals. Lori gives workshops worldwide and has a private practice in Seattle, WA. She is also the creator of the Balance Harness. Lori's most recent of three DVDs by Tawser Dog Videos is co-presented with Kathy Sdao and called The Gift of a Gray Muzzle: Active Care for Senior Dogs. It focuses on improving the life of senior dogs. She teaches the popular FDSA course Helping Dogs Thrive: Aging Dogs, and will be introducing a new course this session called Helping Dogs Thrive: Fitness in Five. Hi Lori, welcome back to the podcast. Lori Stevens: Hello Melissa. Thanks for having me back. Melissa Breau: I am very excited to talk to you again today. To start us out and remind listeners who you are, do you want to recap who the animals are that you share your life with? Lori Stevens: Sure. Since you made that plural, I'll add in my husband because humans are animals. Melissa Breau: Fair enough! Lori Stevens: Anyway, I live with my husband, Lee, and I live with my 12-and-a-half-year-old Aussie girl, Cassie. You know, I used to teach about aging dogs without actually having one, and now I have one. So after several years of teaching basically senior dogs how to have a better life, now I have one and I'm putting it to work. So it's nice to have a 12-and-a-half-year-old who's excited about doing fitness, and going to the park, and the beach, and trail outings, and all sorts of good things. Melissa Breau: You shared pictures. She's clearly in great shape. She looks awesome. Lori Stevens: Yeah, she's doing well. Melissa Breau: Good. I know from last time we talked that you're an advocate for canine fitness — probably not surprising based on what you do. But can you share a little about why it's important, especially for sports dogs? Lori Stevens: I'll start with sports. I have personal experience with seeing athletes go to the next level, and I think it's the cross-training, because they'll come in and basically say something like, “My dog keeps hitting bars. I think we need to improve something.” When we start doing some cross-training, or strengthening the core, or strengthening the legs that are involved in a jump, all those things, we see improvement in performance —surprise, surprise. I think a lot of time in sports the training is going to classes, practicing the sports, but sometimes you need to do one more level of fitness to get that extra little bit. There are so many benefits in canine fitness, things like strengthens muscles is obvious, but it really strengthens and helps the dog know when and how to engage their core muscles. That would happen automatically. It's not like they think, OK, it's time to engage my core muscles, but we do exercises where we start engaging them a lot and then it becomes more natural. You build better joint support through stronger muscles, improving flexibility, improve alignment and posture, balance and stability improve. And with that, what you get is fewer injuries, you get more confidence, you get more body awareness. And so dogs, when they're faced with a quick decision or a quick body move, they're more prepared and more confident to make that move, and stronger in that movement than they might be if they were just doing the regular training as a sport. It improves gait, movement, I just think it's fantastic. But another part of it, which I think we often leave out, is that it's a behavior changer. I have worked with fearful dogs that that was the way that I broke through to them. That confidence they get with suddenly doing things with their body that they've never done before, like hind leg targeting, I think that's a huge, huge exercise for dogs' awareness of where their back end is, their confidence. It seems to be a game changer, really, in terms of behavior, I have found. It's all the stuff you would naturally think of with fitness, but it also does a lot in terms of confidence, body awareness, and building trust even. I mean really being able to build trust, or doing something joyful that doesn't have the pressure of competition in it. Melissa Breau: I think that, for a lot of people, when they talk about fitness, they think about their own experiences. I don't know about you, but for me at least, the gym is not my favorite place to be. How does that compare to how dogs generally feel about fitness and what's the difference there? Lori Stevens: I hate the gym. Can I just say that? Really hate the gym. Melissa Breau: Absolutely. Lori Stevens: I have a personal trainer now. I love my trainer. And so maybe that's more like working with your dog. What pops to mind when I think of going to the gym is a sweaty place that doesn't smell great and has a lot of grunting. Canine fitness, what pops to mind when I think about it, is joy, joy, joy. That's what my canine gym is, my canine gym room. Doing fitness together is just a blast. I have to say that every dog I've ever worked with loves it, and that's why it's my sport. It's my sport, I'm calling it my sport because I don't have another sport, but to me, it really is. It's truly a fun activity and it's all about the joy. So they aren't really comparable, those two things. Melissa Breau: Fair enough, and I guess if someone was sitting there feeding us cookies for everything we did at the gym, we might enjoy it a little more too. Lori Stevens: Yeah, true. Melissa Breau: I think the other place that our concepts about our own fitness struggles sometimes hold us back is with the expectations around how much time we have to put into it. Most people probably think about spending an hour — or more, maybe — at the gym each time they go. Based on the upcoming course name, I'm going to guess that canine fitness differs there too. So how much time should people really be spending on canine fitness? Lori Stevens: You know that five is five hours. No, I'm just kidding. It's five minutes. You know, that goes for people too. When you're out walking your dog, and you're out in the woods, or on a trail, or in the park, it's OK if it takes an hour. But when you're in your house with your dog and you want to do some focused exercises, you want to stop and do a little training, so you might as well do a little fitness, five minutes is plenty. I do believe in warming up and cooling down, and the five minutes is the strengthening part, but if you wanted to turn that into two minutes of strengthening and a couple of minutes of warm-up, and a short cool down, that's fine too. I actually think, with people, they don't need to do an hour workout either. If I stop and do five to ten minutes of working out, that's better than if I don't do any at all, so the time thing, I think, often gets in the way. I also think we can over-train our dogs. I have a 12-and-a-half-year-old, and I set a timer. I set it for five minutes of training. If she's cold, like if she's been sleeping for a few hours, then I wake her up, I set my timer for five minutes, and we do five minutes of warm-up. Then I set it again, we do five minutes of strengthening, and then we do a few minutes of cool down, usually another five on the cool down. So I just set my timer. I think I got that idea of five, five, and five from Leslie Eide, a rehabilitation vet in our area. She also teaches fitness work. I think she's done some for Fenzi. I think the thing is that it's important to warm up a bit and cool down a bit, but you really don't have to spend that much time doing it. So all of the workouts that people are going to develop in my class are going to be five-minute workouts. We don't have to overthink this, you know. We can be creative. We just don't want to work the same muscles every day to fatigue. So we just want to be careful on that side of things. Melissa Breau: How much do fitness behaviors — maybe including or maybe not including warm-up and cool down stuff; I'll leave that up to you — but how much do those skills or those behaviors differ from other skills and behaviors that we teach our dog for sport or just for daily life? Lori Stevens: It's all behavior. How does it differ? I think the way it differs is that we need to be safe. So we need to pay attention to alignment, we need to start on the ground, and what I mean by that is we really need to build a foundation, just like with any sport. You're not going to get past the foundation stuff. You don't put your dog directly on a peanut and start doing things. One of my goals in teaching fitness is to really teach people how to be wonderful, incredibly sharp-eyed observers, and teach them what to look for when they're doing fitness, and how to start on the ground and build up. All these exercises that we do as foundation exercises, they're all going to get harder because we're going to be doing them on the ground first, on a stable platform, then an unstable platform, unstable equipment. Training fitness is not training for a competitive sport, so the pressure isn't the same, but you still have to have a good foundation for it. Just like with agility, you don't go in and start running courses. You teach the dog how to get on the equipment, how to exit the equipment, how to use the equipment safely. This is all a good thing, in my view, and that's why I can call it my sport, because there are a bunch of nuances. But it's also a very joyful thing to do. Not to say that sports isn't joyful. Most people do it because it's a blast. But precision is important in fitness training, just like it's important in competitive sports. It's just different in the sense that it's something you can do year-round. You might change your focus based on what you see in your dog, and all of it is about teaching behaviors, so the better you are at training and timing, the better your fitness work will look. Melissa Breau: You mentioned in there the idea of equipment. Do people need special equipment to do canine fitness? Lori Stevens: I think people like an excuse to buy equipment. Melissa Breau: Fair enough. Lori Stevens: I really do. I think it's funny, I do think they like that. But let's just say they can't afford it or they don't like it. There's a lot of things you can build. You can use things around the house. Do you have to have fancy cones? No, you can use potted plants. Do you have to have a fancy Cavalletti set with cones with poles through it? No, you can use your mops and brooms and put them on cans and use painter's tape. Do you have to buy fancy platforms or an aerobic platform? No, you can use books and bind them with duct tape and put anti-slip material around them. You can use air mattresses and pillows for unstable equipment. I'm betting most people will want to buy a piece of equipment or two, but you don't have to. Let me just add that the outdoors, when you go for a walk in the park, it is full of exercise equipment. I'm going to give you yesterday's example. We haven't gone for our walk today yet. Yesterday's example was we went to the park and Cassie wanted to jump on every park bench. She sees the bench and she starts targeting for the bench, and she wants to go on every single bench. She can put her front legs up to work her hind legs, or she can push up all the way to do a little jump. Then we do uphill sprints because I'm in Seattle, so there's a lot of hills. We do uphill recalls and she sprints up the hill. We hind leg target curbs on our way to the park, and we were walking across a bridge, and I noticed there was this little shelf, a little curb-like thing that you could step up on. So we did ipsilateral work — I'd better say what that is — we did targeting with same-side legs on the little raised part of the bridge, and we turned around, did the other side, and I took a photo of it. We do that in the class, ipsilateral work. We ended with nosework in the park, followed by walking up a very steep hill. And I did a workout with her that day, too. But this was a really good workout just utilizing, there's often a big rock she likes to jump up on, and there's all sorts of logs that are a little slippery right now because it rains here nonstop for ages. There's exercise equipment everywhere. Maybe I should do a class someday on just outdoor equipment. Melissa Breau: That would certainly be cool. It would be interesting. Lori Stevens: Yeah. Melissa Breau: For those people who are interested in buying a couple of pieces of equipment, are there specific pieces you usually recommend for getting started, or good places to get their feet wet? Lori Stevens: First a caveat: You're talking to someone who has a ridiculous amount of equipment, so maybe I shouldn't really be allowed to answer this question. Older dogs do really well with a balance pad, and you don't have to buy it. You can get a balance pad on Amazon for people and it's not very expensive. You can do a lot of things with a balance pad. I like for people to have a Fitbone or two, or a couple of 14-inch discs. Those pieces of equipment, either one, a Fitbone or a 14-inch disc, or two Fitbones or two 14-inch discs, you can do a lot with those. Platforms are super-useful. Where do you buy a platform, right? A lot of people have been making platforms recently, so there's a lot of how-to's on that. But you asked me about buying. An aerobic step bench is actually a useful platform. Michelle Pouliot has a place that she links to that builds platforms according to her specifications, so I've got a couple of those. And then Paw Pods. They're inexpensive and they're a blast. You just have to make sure you get the ones that are nice and soft, so I get the FitPAWS ones. They're really fun, because then you can target one paw at a time, target all four, do turns, and do side steps onto them and all sorts of things. Back onto them, back onto all four, there's a million things you can do with the Paw Pods. OK, I'll stop. Was that just a couple of pieces? Melissa Breau: No, that's excellent. Paw Pods are fascinating. I've never taught a dog to use them, but just in general I've seen some stuff done with them and they're pretty cool. They require a real awareness of where all four of your feet are. Lori Stevens: Exactly, and it is just fun. It's fun to teach and fun to do them. Melissa Breau: I know you have, and you mentioned this earlier too, this idea of fitness foundation behaviors. I know that's part of what's on your syllabus, so I wanted to ask you what you mean by that, and what are some examples of something that counts as a fitness foundation behavior. Lori Stevens: One isn't even a fitness behavior, but having a good nose-to-hand touch where your dog can … so targeting is a big one, so first a nose-to-hand touch, and that's super-useful for positioning. Having an easy go-to default behavior they can do when you just ask them to do something and they don't do it, you can just say, “Touch.” So when you practice that in all sorts of ways, and moving them into position with your nose-to-hand targeting, then you've got something that you can use during fitness training that gets them to a certain place, gets them on something, gets them off of something. Getting off of equipment sometimes can be challenging for some people. So just to continue with the targeting, being able to target with one paw, target something, your hand, with each of your four paws — not your four paws, your dog's four paws — targeting with one paw, two paws up, four paws up, is a useful foundation skill. Hind leg targeting is, in my opinion, hind leg targeting is a useful skill for all dogs, period. Being able to hind leg target something is really important, but then, of course, it's a foundation behavior when you're just teaching a dog to hind leg target a mat. But it becomes more skillful and more of a fitness behavior when you're targeting something unstable and higher up and asking to hold that position and maybe do shoulder exercises with their hind end up. So these things that start on the ground that don't seem like that big a deal, they build and become more difficult and more challenging fitness exercises or strengthening exercises. Backing up, side stepping — both of those are foundation exercises, but side stepping on unstable equipment is a different thing than side stepping with all four feet on the ground. I call them foundations because you're giving the dog the idea of what is side stepping and what is backing up, or asking them to do it on something difficult. Melissa Breau: What are some of the basic exercises that you teach most often? What do those look like, and what are the benefits of doing some of them? Lori Stevens: Let me just start with the simplest concept, and that is, when you put two front feet up on something, your dog is usually, not always, but you can help them shift their weight to their back legs, so the further they're standing up, the less likely that they'll have the weight on their front legs. The benefit of putting two paws up on something and holding is that the hind legs are being used more. If the hind legs are up, then the weight is more down on the front legs, so you're building front leg muscles. Things like tuck sits and sphinx downs require more core work. There's something that is often said in physical therapy, and that is, you stabilize, you strengthen the proximal, which is the core, which is the trunk, to get better distal mobility from a strengthen position. So it's important to be able to have the strength of that stability in your trunk and in your core, your stabilization muscles, your multifidi, your transverse abdominus muscles. It's important to be able to automatically engage those, your serratus, in order to do some of these other exercises. So the benefits of the core work is to be able to do more difficult things safely. The benefits of some of the other exercises we work on, like, let's just say crawling. Crawling, you're down in a sphinx down position and then you're moving forward on the ground. So you're working the back muscles. You're utilizing all four limbs, and those limbs, especially the back legs, really have to work the rotation of the hip. The benefits of these exercises are pretty amazing. Another example would be with the dog standing on all four legs. If you lift the left front leg, you're going to put more weight on the right back leg, so if you've got a dog that's in a habit of standing to the side because maybe they hurt their right knee two years ago, so they got in a habit of unloading that leg, well, lifting the front left paw loads that leg, and in their body they start getting the muscle memory back of, Oh yeah, I can use that leg like I used it before. It doesn't hurt at all. Let me just add that I still think it's important that everybody who does fitness is checked out by a veterinarian, and if they've had any sort of problems that they're cleared for the exercises first. But there's a lot of benefits that come from doing this work that sometimes people don't even see until they start doing it. It's pretty cool. And then there's the behavior benefits, like I said earlier. The body awareness, the bonding that occurs, the trust and joy. And do you know that some of the agility dogs I work with have never slowed down, and they're like, “Ha ha ha, my dog will never slow down,” and they walk over those Cavaletti poles. But slowing down helps dogs go faster, because in slowing down they really get to know their bodies better, and they get to know where they're not just pushing through. Being the little masters of muscle compensation that they are, when you're moving slowly, it all stands out. You have to know what muscles you're using, you have to know where your feet are in a different sort of way, and so the slow work doesn't slow your dog down on the course. It helps your dog because they're even more confident and more aware, I think. Melissa Breau: I wanted to ask if there are differences in the behaviors you'd recommend for daily fitness versus those you use to warm up and cool down, or whether the behaviors are multifunctional. Maybe you could just talk to all that a little bit. Lori Stevens: The exercises are multifunctional, or at least some of them are. In my warm-up I might do a few tuck sits and a few tuck sits to stand. I might do some short recalls. I might do some targeting, some spins, some bows, some Cavalletti work. But I'm not going to do ten tuck sits to stands, three sets, with feet upon a Fitbone, as my warm-up. So the concept of the exercise is the exercise might be the same, but I'll just do two or three of them in a warm-up versus ten of them, really hard, three sets. I want the dogs, as they're warming up, to go through the different movements. I want them to back up and side step, and all that's on the ground during a warm-up, really. I often just come in from a walk, like, I walk Cassie for however long, usually we walk at least 30 minutes, and we walk in the house and she's pretty warmed up, so we just do a few exercises right after that. But it's spins and turns to get the … or spins in each direction, sorry. It's good lateral flexion for the spine, so it warms up the spine muscles. Cavalletti work is a nice warm-up exercise when you're trotting across them, but I'm not going to raise them real high and have a dog do high steps, or side stepping, or backing up over Cavelletti poles as a warm-up, because that's taking it a little bit further. So they're multifunctional, but they're done in the simplest way during warm-ups and cool downs. I probably made that into something longer than it needed to be. In cool downs I'm even going to go lighter and do less in a cool down than I would in a warm-up. Melissa Breau: You mentioned this earlier, and you talk about it a little bit in your syllabus, this concept of alignment. I wanted to ask what you mean by that, and if you can talk a little bit about why it's important. Lori Stevens: It's super-important, and why it's important has to do with the muscles that are engaging. I'm an alignment geek, I admit. If a dog sits with a leg shooting out to the side, or just a super-sloppy sit to the side, the first thing I want to know is why that's happening and let's change it. If a back is roached up or humped up, I want to know is something wrong. Hunched up, back roached, I don't know how you'd say roaching, but hopefully people know what that is. Sometimes what I see is a dog can stand with their feet under them perfectly fine, but as soon as they step up on a platform, their back feet go really wide, or their front feet go really wide. Have you ever seen people that are standing with their legs really wide? They're not using their core. They're just creating this super-broad base that they don't have to use any muscles. I mean, you have to use muscles to stand, but it's a rather lazy, non-core way of standing. Sorry if you're thinking, I do that all the time! So what I'm looking for is that dogs are using the muscles I expect, they have nice, long spines, neutral necks, their tail is not tucked. If the dog's tail is tucked — some dogs tuck their tails a lot — but if the dog's tail is really tucked and their legs are wide, then I think either, They're not comfortable standing like this. Maybe we're standing on something a little bit too high. Maybe for one reason or another they might or might not be hurting. It's really hard to tell because you can't ask. So I want to see if we can change their position in a way that puts them in better alignment and if they're comfortable doing that. Now if the dog regularly really goes wide in the back, I know how to encourage them to have their legs under them, but if I all of a sudden start doing the exercise with their legs in, they might be using muscles they have never used before. So I have to really be careful with not just bringing their legs in and then doing a million exercises, because the dog needs to get used to using those new muscles. So anyway, alignment is a really, really big deal. It's just safe. It's safer. There's no reason to do things with improper alignment. It's the same thing in human training as well. Melissa Breau: I'll let you talk a little more about the class specifically. I know it's called Helping Dogs Thrive: Fitness In Five, and it's in February, so lots of f's. What does it entail, what is it going to look like? Do you want to just talk us through a little bit? Lori Stevens: It's going to be fun, it's going to be educational, it will benefit your dog and help him in sports. At the end of, so every week, I think this time I'm going to release everything the first day of the week. You'll have lectures that will tell you a bit about why I want things to go a certain way, or things to keep in mind, or learning about fitness. So I'll have lectures. Then I'll have exercises, and I'll say how to get the behaviors, what they're good for. I'll say the setup, what you need in your environment, the instructions, the number of repetitions and sets, I'll have video of the exercise. So we'll do that. And then, at the end of every week, I'm going to have something called The Five-Minute Workout, it's just called Five-Minute Workout. I'm not going to create the five-minute workout. However, I'm going to give everybody the tools to create their own five-minute workout. So you can imagine what the homework will be. The homework will be showing the exercises, or for sure showing videos of the exercises that you're having trouble teaching. But also I'm going to want to see parts of the five-minute workout. The first week, you're learning how to do a five-minute workout. You're not all of a sudden, “Here's my five-minute workout.” It's going to build across the weeks, and every week your five-minute workout can incorporate, like, let's just say we're in Week 3. Your five-minute workout can include the exercises from Week 3, 2, and 1, so we can get creative and more mixing and matching. Anyway, that's basically how the class is laid out. I'm going to have lectures on things like raising criteria. I'll talk about the benefits, the kinds of movements, the anatomical terminology, like what is cranial and what's caudal, what's lateral and what's medial. I'll talk about exercise frequency, repetitions, durations, and sets. I'll talk about physiological issues, muscle actions. So there's things I'll just talk about, but then there's the exercises, so people will have both. They'll learn about fitness and they will learn the exercises. Melissa Breau: They'll learn both the whys and the hows. Lori Stevens: Yeah. Melissa Breau: I think you hit on the things that people are most likely to have questions about. I feel like anytime people talk about this stuff, it's like, “OK, but how much do I do? How long do I do it?” and all those pieces. Lori Stevens: Yeah, right. Exactly. And it's really different from the Aging Dogs class. In the Aging Dogs class, depending on the age of the dog, for sure, I'm not always this picky about everything. I'm likely to be a little bit more picky about alignment and how we're doing the exercise than I am in the Aging Dogs class. It all depends on the dog, but when you're working with a 16-year-old dog, teaching him fitness exercises, you're going to go really slowly, give that dog the time to learn them, and you're not going to be super-picky about, you're going to be as picky as you can be about alignment, but it's different. Melissa Breau: You hit on something there, and I didn't tell you I was going to ask you this, but you brought it up and I think it makes sense to maybe talk about it for just a quick second. Is there a type of dog that is a good fit for the class, or maybe isn't as good a fit for the class? Lori Stevens: I would say if it's a dog that … OK, first of all, if it's a puppy and the growth plates aren't closed yet, then puppies probably should not take the class, because everything about repetitions and sets aren't going to apply to the puppy. Somebody could take it if they have a puppy. I recommend they audit it. Then, when their dog's growth plates close, then they can start applying it, or they can take it again later. It's a lot of material. You could audit it, then take it later, and still go, “Oh, I don't remember doing this.” If your dog's coming off a pretty serious injury and you've got contraindications, things you really shouldn't be doing, maybe don't take it at Gold. Maybe just audit it. Check with your vet. It's different if you're coming here and you've been released from the rehab vet to come to me to do exercises. But if you are taking this as a fitness class, I'm going to assume your dog is pretty healthy. Other than that, pretty much all dogs can take it. For sure the dogs that are pretty mobile that have been in my Aging Dogs class, they can take it. They may not be able to do everything, but the ones that are pretty mobile, there's some I have in mind that could definitely take it. But if you've got a dog that can hardly move, this will be challenging, is my guess. But there's always something, you know? I have to do some harder exercises for the dogs that are more performance dogs. They're strong and they're used to doing things. And then you can always just stick with the basics and build really, really gradually until you're ready to go up a level. So it really depends. Melissa Breau: If people have questions, they can message you, right? Lori Stevens: Whatever people have, yeah. I think it's going to be a well-attended class, based on the interest I've seen so far, so I hope. It should be really fun. It should be a very positive experience for the dogs and people. Melissa Breau: Well, thank you so much for coming back on the podcast, Lori. This is fun to learn a little more about this stuff, and I feel like every time we talk about it, I'm like, Hmm, I really should be doing that. So thank you for coming back on and talking through this with me. And thank you to all of our wonderful listeners out there for tuning in. We'll be back next week, this time with Chrissi Schranz to talk about building reinforcers and recall training. If you haven't already, I hope you'll subscribe to our podcast in itunes or the podcast app of your choice so our next episode will automatically download to your phone as soon as it becomes available. CREDITS: Today's show is brought to you by the Fenzi Dog Sports Academy. Special thanks to Denise Fenzi for supporting this podcast. Music provided royalty-free by BenSound.com; the track featured here is called “Buddy.” Audio editing provided by Chris Lang. Thanks again for tuning in -- and happy training!

Today FEI rider Erin Freedman and Dressage Radio Show co-hosts Reese Koffler Stanfield and Philip Parkes talk about incorporating cavaletti into your training regime. Listen in...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)

This week we chat with Bridget Hay about breeding, training and competing her stallion Faolan, also Erin Freedman is going to join us for a great trainer tip on the use of cavalettti.  Listen in...Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/user?u=87421)

Noter og linksk: SiVP.dk/27 Jeannette Jalving har været kirurg på Evidensia Kolding Dyrehospital siden 2008 og er den kirurgisk ansvarlige på dyrehospitalet. Patellaluksation som lejlighedsfund Jeannette fortæller at det oftest er ved andre undersøgelser, at vi finder patellaluksationerne – altså som lejlighedsfund. Det kan være en god ide at mærke knæskallen efter på alle hunde, fortsætter Jeannette. Både for at sikre vi husker det hver gang, men også for at få fornemmelse af, hvad der føles rigtigt. Hundene vil ikke altid vise så tydelige symptomer at ejer har bemærket det, eller også vil den blot lave nogle små hop, som ikke bliver betragtet som noget større problem – heller ikke af dyrlægen. Gradinddeling af patellaluksation Den internationale anerkendte gradinddeling i Jeannettes oversættelse i DVT: Grad 1 Patella kan manuelt luxeres på ekstenderet knæ, men flytter sig straks tilbage Grad 2 Patella kan luxeres på flekteret knæ, men flytter sig tilbage ved ekstension Grad 3 Patella er permanent luxeret. Den kan forskubbes til fos- saen, men luxeres straks igen. Grad 4 Patella er permanent luxeret og kan ikke reluxeres. Dansk Kennelklubs inddeling af patellaluksationer Grad 0 Normal, ikke lukseret patella Grad 1 Patella ligger på plads men kan lukseres manuelt. Patella vender spontant tilbage til normal position, f.eks. når bagbenet bøjes. Grad 2 Patella kan let lukseres enten manuelt eller spontant. Patella forbliver hovedsageligt lukseret, også under bevægelse, men kan reponeres manuelt. Grad 3 Patella er permanent lukseret og kan ikke reponeres. Anbefalinger for grad 1 - 3 Ved grad 4, hvor Patella er permanent lukseret, men hunden ikke har symptomer, er det ikke sikkert at vi behøver foretage et indgreb, forklarer Jeannette. Når knæskallen sidder fast, kan den ikke gøre meget skade på ledbrusken og formentlig heller ikke gøre så meget skade for knæet. På samme måde kan en hund med grad 1 Patellaluksation også være ugeneret af det og dermed heller ikke have gavn af et indgreb. Ved patellaluksationer af grad 2 og 3 vil ledbrusken på humerus blive slidt i stykker og der vil der komme slidgigt i knæet. Er knæskallen løs allerede i hvalpetiden, kan det være med til at forværre tilstanden. Både fordi der ikke bliver dannet en korrekt sulcus, hvor knæskallen skal ligge og fordi Quadriceps lægger større pres på vækstfladen distalt på humerus. Der bliver altså et pres der sænker væksten medialt og et lettet pres øger væksten lateralt. Operationer for pateallaluksation Imbrication af ledkapselen og patella-fabella sutur Ved begge disse operationer åbner kirurgen slet ikke op til ledet, fortæller Jeannette. Ved imbricationen sættes opstrammende ligature i ledkapslen så knæskallen bliver trykket ned i sulcus. Med en patella-fabella sutur bliver knæskallen tøjret med en anker-sutur til sesamknoglen bag knæet. Crista tibia transposition Ved en Crista tibia flytning flytter man den forreste kam på Tibia lidt til den ene eller anden side. Det er her det lige ligament sidder fast så incisionen for senen flytter med. På den måde kan trækket i senen komme korrekt hen over sulcus på Humerus. Sulcus plastic Der er flere måder at lave Sulcus plastic på. Her løfter men ledbrusken på Humerus under Patella, fjerner noget af knoglen i dybden og lægger brusken tilbage henover. På den måde får Patella en dybere fure at ligge i. Ulempen kan være at sulcus med tiden ujævnes og hunden dermed mister effekten af operationen. CORA osteotomier Internationale eksperter eksperimentere med at lave oprettende kirurgi på både Humerus og Tibia. Metoden går ud på, at man fjerner et lagkage-formaet stykke af knoglen så vinklen af resten af knoglen bliver rettet op. Jeannette fortæller at den slags er utrolig svært at få gjort præcist nok. Ridgestop Metoden Ridgestop er nyere metode, hvor Jeannette sætter et plastik implantat på kanten af Humeruskondulen og på den måde forhøjer kanten til sulcus. Metoden kan desuden kombineres andre operationsteknikker. Jeannette anbefaler normal ejeren til en knæopereret hund, at den skal holdes i ro op til 6 uger. Med denne metode, kan det være svær for ejeren allerede efter små 10 dage, hunden begynder at bruge benet normalt. Jeannette har desuden også en oplevelse af at hundene er mindre plaget af denne metode. Rådgivning i perioden efter operation Jeannette forklarer at vi skal være opmærksomme på de sædvanlige tegn på infektion: Varme, rødme og unaturlige hævelser. Der må under ingen omstændigheder være superation fra sådan et sår. Der kan dog naturligt være en mindre hævelse proximalt ved incisionen. Det vigtigste er dog at hunden holder sig i ro, så Jeannette snakker med ejeren om aktiv fodring og ture i cykelvogn. Ved Ridgestop-metoden er der ikke meget genoptræning, da hundene ofte bruger benet normalt hurtigt. Ellers er Jeannette glad for at bruge luftmadrasser til hundene, så de lærer at stå på benet og stole på at det kan bære igen. Cavaletti-øvelser er også en god ting for mellemstore og store hunde. Det kan for eksempel gøres ved at lægge en stige ned og lade hunden gå hen over den. Hunden skal altså løfte benet 5-10 cm og samtidig placere det præcist mellem trinene. Desuden er alt motion i snor på korte ture og legetøjet skal samles sammen.  

In this episode we look back at the ELF event in Sydney from 13-15 November. I also talk about the plan to get riding fit and what I discovered about arena maintenance. The URLs mentioned are: Building Cavaletti: http://www.texashorsemansdirectory.com/thdcav.html Evention TV build your own cavaletti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJ1UQ2xU6k 6 training videos for showjumpers: https://www.facebook.com/notes/johnson-equestrian-services/five-videos-of-simple-training-tips-used-at-johnsonequestrian/1116101641735486

Premier Equestrian presents Gold Medalist David O'Conner, as he gives tips on equestrian jumping training. For more information: Call 800-611-6109 Premier Equestrian offers maintenance free Cavaletti jumps, horse jumps, and horse jumping equipment. We have a large selection of durable cavaletti jumps. Cavaletti jumps come in a variety of colors along with horse jumping poles and accessories including The Stacker cavaletti and Quick Cavaletti, the Block Cavaletti and Easy Glide Jump Cavaletti.