A convenient, at-the-barn reference to help riders give their horses the perfect warm-up, featuring 124 color photos and drawings.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Stretch Exercises for your horses:
Stretch Exercises for Your Horse: The Path to Perfect Suppleness
Not impressed: while the book looks great and there are lots of good photos, the content is a bit thin. After a couple of times I realize that the information I wanted just was not there. For example, the stretch for adductors which i wanted was 5 lines, but this was after 10 pages of diagrams and pictures of stretches under saddle and with the forelimb. The stretches under saddle are vaque and too general. this could have been so much... more info
Not what I was expecting:
I am not a horse trainer, but I have have been training my own horses for 20 years. I was hoping for a book with lots of pictures that I could glance at to visually remind me of what each exercise was. But this is not the book for me. It goes through each body part and gives detailed explanation of how muscles work, then active exercises and then goes to Passive exercises. So if you were wanting to passively stretch the whole horse, you have to keep thumbing through the book. The idea of the active riding... more info
Highly Recommended:
What a great book! All you need to know about your horse's muscles, why you need to stretch and in what situations, is in this book. I have never come across something quite so comprehensive and easy to understand in one book before. It has wonderful big glossy colour pictures, spiral bound for easy page turning as well as being able to keep it open on the page you want while trying out some exercises on your horse. I did several relevant stretch exercises on my horse's sore back end, and within a week... more info
Packed with Info:
This book will be read over and over as a handy reference guide. The topic is interesting and goes to a lot of trouble to explain in simple english, what problems may occur.
