Beginning Western Exercises

Beginning Western Exercises
Author: Cherry Hill
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 33
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1580170455

With this pocket-sized guide in hand, you'll find it easy to develop and perfect your Western riding skills. Cherry Hill's exercises will help you learn to fine-tune transitions and changes of direction, master lateral work, improve collection, and perfect lead changes.

Beginning English Exercises

Beginning English Exercises
Author: Cherry Hill
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 33
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1580170447

With this pocket-sized guide in hand, you'll find it easy to develop and perfect your Western riding skills. Cherry Hill's exercises will help you learn to fine-tune transitions and changes of direction, master lateral work, improve collection, and perfect lead changes.

101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider

101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider
Author: Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-08-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1603429212

This series of Western Dressage exercises are designed to improve suppleness, balance in movement, and responsiveness. Each exercise has a specific goal in mind, and they are organized by different areas of focus: softness, looseness, rider development, engagement, adjustability, and ground work. With illustrated step-by-step instructions and full arena diagrams, you’ll quickly be on your way to mastering this exciting discipline.

Intermediate Western Exercises

Intermediate Western Exercises
Author: Cherry Hill
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 34
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1580170463

With this pocket-sized guide in hand, you'll find it easy to develop and perfect your Western riding skills. Cherry Hill's exercises will help you learn to hone balance and precise use of aids, improve bending, tighten transitions, develop lateral work, and begin collection.

Advanced Western Exercises

Advanced Western Exercises
Author: Cherry Hill
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2012-12-10
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1603428259

Strengthen your Western riding skills as you progress through a series of proven and effective exercises. Perfect for quick reference in the ring, this guide includes illustrated directions, an arena guide, and plenty of patterns to master. Focusing on essential riding fundamentals like lateral work, master collection, lead changes, and transitions, Cherry Hill offers plenty of encouraging expert advice for riders seeking to improve their horsemanship. Enjoy the rewarding satisfaction that comes with taking your riding to a new and exciting level.

101 Ground Training Exercises for Every Horse and Handler

101 Ground Training Exercises for Every Horse and Handler
Author: Cherry Hill
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1612120520

Presents ground training exercises for every horse and handler, including catching, yielding, turning, sacking out, backing, long lining, doing obstacle work, and more.

55 Corrective Exercises for Horses

55 Corrective Exercises for Horses
Author: Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-01-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1570769052

A highly illustrated guide to simple yet effective methods for keeping horses sound, healthy, and performing their best. Over time, horses (like people) acquire postural habits, compensate for soreness and injury, and develop poor movement patterns. This limits performance ability, causes unsoundness and health issues, and ultimately undermines the horse's overall well–being. Jec Aristotle Ballou has made a name for herself advocating for the horse and providing sensible instruction in his schooling, conditioning, and care. Her bestselling books and popular clinics are designed to enable any horse person to correctly apply proven principles that bring measurable progress while avoiding boredom and confusion. In her latest collection of mounted and unmounted corrective exercises, Ballou demonstrates how we can actively work to improve the horse's posture and movement, whether he is: An active performance or pleasure mount. An aging or older horse that benefits from gentle exercise. A horse being rehabilitated following injury, illness, or lack of conditioning. Ballou's positive cross–training techniques are free of shortcuts, and her guidelines for analyzing the horse's posture and way of going help readers gain a new awareness of the equine body. Applicable for all disciplines and full of quality color photographs to explain the exercises, this is an integral collection that optimizes how the horse uses his body and helps ensure he stays sounder and healthier for more years of his life.

101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider

101 Western Dressage Exercises for Horse & Rider
Author: Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1612121705

The exciting new discipline of Western Dressage lets riders of Western pleasure, work, or competitive horses enjoy the benefits of traditional dressage while using Western tack and attire. This book -- the very first on the topic -- offers 101 fun and effective exercises that will improve every Western horse's suppleness, balance in movement, and responsiveness. Each exercise is presented with illustrated, step-by-step instructions and a full arena diagram, and exercises are organized by focus: softness, looseness, rider development, engagement, adjustability, and ground work. This book is the ultimate reference for this new sport.

101 Arena Exercises for Horse & Rider

101 Arena Exercises for Horse & Rider
Author: Cherry Hill
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2012-12-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1603428208

Take your riding to a new level! Bringing together recognized classic exercises for both English and Western riders plus her own original patterns and maneuvers, Cherry Hill provides an array of drills that will improve your riding technique. Whether you are a rider interested in expanding your repertoire or an instructor looking for new drills, these exercises will add excitement and variety to your training.

Equine Fitness

Equine Fitness
Author: Jec Aristotle Ballou
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2009-12-09
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1603426698

Get your horse in shape and maintain his overall fitness, regardless of his age or abilities. Equine Fitness will have your horse looking and feeling his best with a series of fun exercise routines specifically designed to enhance his strength, stamina, and agility. Clear step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations make the exercises easy to follow, and the book includes a handy set of pocket-sized cards that you can use in the ring. Jec Ballou’s simple conditioning program promises lasting results for healthy horses and satisfied riders.