How often do you ride etc???

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05kitty93

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Hi,

I try and ride 4/5 days a week (at most) due to work commitments and atm the weather. lol I try and have a lesson every other week, school and lots of hacking. I ride for between 1hr and 3hrs a time - If i school its normally for about 30mins tho.

How often do you ride your horses and how long?

And what do you do with them?

I often feel I dont do enough to try and keep her fit and the weight off. Lottie is a section D and weight is a BIG issue all year round. :roll:
Ruth.
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Normally (i.e when horse is sound and happy) I ride 5-6 days a week (6 in summer, 5 in winter, if i'm lucky 7 in holidays)
I do about 3 or 4 schooling sessions a week for about 45 mins-1hr 15 mins and a hack of about 1 1/2 hrs then sometimes a jumping session or another hack. One of those days is substiuted each week for lunging..
Looking at that it seems quite a lot to stil have a fat horse at the end of it!!! I sypmathise with you, she's a section d cross-must be the breed!
 
At the moment about 3/4 yimes a week, but this week all the wind and rain and my dodgy back has meant I have only managed 2 x this week which is pretty poor for my standards!
 
I ride 3 to 4 times a week, usually a mix of schooling, jumping hacking. My sharer rides usually 3 times a week doing similar activities.
 
I try to ride 6 days a week - and try and follow a routine of 3 days schooling (1 x lunge 30 mins, 1 x schooling 45-1hr and 1 20mins school followed by short hack out), 2 jumping sessions (usually 30mins but only cos I like to end on a good note and darent risk doing it again
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) and 1 hack (around 1-2hrs). I usually compete once a week so may vary routine a bit to do more or less jumping depending on whether we're competing dressage or jumping but always try and get a hack in
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I have trouble keeping weight off my irish fat thing too so try and do lots of canter work and not to give into her pleading-I-am-so-starving-looks
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I ride 6-7 days a week. We dont really like schooling.Poppy is 23 so not really to bothered. We were jumping untill the end of the summer when i found out she was losing her eye sight so we stop jumping now. Which is a shame cause she really enjoy's her self.
We hack between half hour to 3 hours.We try to get down beach as much as we can for a good gallop when tide is right.
We ride what ever the weather.
 
I ride 4 or 5 times a week. This usually involves 1 lesson and 1 schooling session, these last between 20 and 30 minutes. The rest is hacking which can be anything between 30 minutes and 2 hours.
 
6 days a week, usually with a comp/hunt/outing once a week. depends on the weather and if the arena is flooded
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ride monday, have pc rally on tues, sj comp on wed, thur dressage lesson, fri is ride and if show on sat then clean, sat either comp or hack. sun is day off!
 
JBJ - My bl**dy mare, who I love dearly, is constantly starving. lol I will try to do more canter work with her too.

Thanks for all your comments and advice.

Indianas Mum - How is Indi and do you still have Rollo? I cant remember if your Mum was selling him or not a few months ago?
 
I ride every day a week. Pip gets ridden most days, as does Ginga. Pip has one trot schooling session, one canter and one extension/cellection and one day hacking or jumping. He drives at the weekend. He has a driven one day event once a month and in the summer 3 DE's. He is a welsh,tb hackney X. Ginga has one days schooling, and one jumping or hacking and one off. He is a welsharab X. He is not competeing at the moment due to time, but has the odd long distance. The other boys all get schooled about 2/4 days, and a different 2 of them have a one day event a month. In march they will do a 1De as a team, then do the 3DE season all 5 of them in a team with a travelling spare.
 
my daughter and I share our pony. She is ridden 6 days a week for around 45 mins a session & we work out who is doing which days on a weekly basis
 
I normally try to ride every day but in reality my horse gets worked 5/6 days a week. I lunge him the other 1/2 days, so he some kind of exercise every day.

I work full time so have to fit riding / lunging in around that. I've been getting up really early and riding before work but now it isn't light until about 7.30am so it's getting a bit difficult!

Roll on the longer days!
 
I ride 1 or 2 a week max! LOL!!! but thats because theres a 80 mile distance between me and my horse!!! she gets ridden about 4/5 times a week (i think) at the mo! Used to ride her 6 times a week though.
 
At the moment mine are getting 2/3 nights in the week each and then both days at a weekend usually competing.

But in the summer they get ridden about 6 times a week, to keep their weight down!
 
Depends on work and sometimes weather, I like to ride about 3 times a week, sometimes in the summer it can be 4 days in a row, my rides vary from half hour to 4 hours, nothing written in stone, it's supposed to be my leisure time so depends on how I feel, havent ridden in over 7 days which is a long gap for me as his lordship has a sore hip, according to back lady.
 
As I have two I am usually riding every day. But now that Spider is on box rest im riding 4-5 times a week as am trying to give Dexter a few more days off now over winter as he will not have a few weeks off stupid TB!!
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I ride Breeze four times a week usually, 2 schooling, one jumping and on long 1 hour and a 1/2 hack.
This week tho' i have only ridden her twice due to the weather, riding her tonight though.
I then ride most days at the RS other peoples horses or Misty..
 
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