Any good exercises

[jodiew]

Hi all i no alot of you on here are all really experienced horsey people so i thought it would be best to ask you all.

Can anyone give me any good exercise to make my horse use his hind quaters, as he really needs to get sum muscle buil up on his back end and he needs more topline. I dont want anything to hard, as i wouldnt say i am an adveanced rider more of an intermediate

Would just reallly like some differnt ones to do, also is there anything i could do while i am lunging him?

Thanks

Jodie xx

 

[Tempi]

lots of transitions from trot to nearly walk and straight into trot again. Also use raised trotting poles, have alternate ends raised. Walk to canter transitions and canter to walk will also get his backend under him. Hill work will also definately help him to muscle up more behind.

 

[AmyMay]

Find a good steep hill and walk up it daily. As your horse gets fitter start asking them to trot up it - until they can work steadily to the top in a good rythmn and general outline. The horse doesn't have to be on the bit, but it should be working in to the contact.

 

[jodiew]

I would love to do the hill on e but we have no hill around us at all, totall flat

The only one we have is one of of the long and short sides of the out door school behinf the fence but i think that would be way to steep

 

[samp]

You need to get him to use his hindquarters more productively. hill work is fab as is lots of transitions and pole work. Anothe exercise is to do turn on the quarters and leg yielding. You want your horse to have better self carriage. He needs to have impulsion at all times. Don't force his head down the more engine he has behind the more he will naturally carry himself

 

[jodiew]

when i ride him and do transitions he does work soooo much better when i do walk to canter, but them he can sometimes, not so much get giddy but start to bounces around, its like he is sitting on his hocks and switching his front legs, if you no what i mean.

 

[jodiew]

Anybody else got any ideas?