How often do you ride/lunge your horse?

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I ride between 4 - 5 x per week. Cob gets 2/3 days off a week.
She is 5yrs old and we mainly hack with maybe 1 x schooling session per week. Obviously its not always possible to ride with a 5month baby in tow :)
So going to fit a lunging session in on the days where i can't ride (obviously with her normal 2 days off per week).

How about you?
Do you ever feel guilty when you can't ride?!!
 
I have a 4.5 month old and I am the same, ride 4-5 times a week and lunge if I can't ride. I'm currently getting her fit so I may start looking for someone who wants to ride as she's pretty simple :) this baby lark can be hard work!
 
Weather permitting I hack 5 days a week, lunge once a week and give 1 day off usually after a weekend where we have done longer hacks :-D to be fair, I don't have a baby so you guys are doing pretty well to fit in riding 4-5 times a week!! Hope I can manage to ride that much if I ever have kids!!
 
One of mine I try to ride four times a week (doesnt always happen with other things getting in the way) and I lunge in a pessoa once a week. My youngster I ride three times a week, she doesn't need any more than that right now I feel. I'm trying to keep it fun and easy for her at the moment as I only recently brought her back into work after I backed her and turned her away last year.
 
I ride 6 times a week, on Sundays she either gets lunged or hacked.

We have very little turnout and I find its better for her to come out and do something than to be stuck in her stall all day.
 
I tend to ride around 4 or 5 times a week, it seems to be the norm!
If we have competed he gets the day after off. I try to lunge but its more often in winter with dark nights and bad weather.
Mine is a 6 year old TB and fairly easy going! :)
 
Al rides each about 6 times a week, including competing.

She tries to school one of those times, jump another, then the rest is split up between leg stretches and fittening work. This is only with her competing gang though, the hunters get hacked only and not much exciting stuff until mid-summer as they only need to be kept not-fat.

Lunging is rare, more of a part of gradual fittening or something to do with the ones who come out a bit too keen, so not something that's done often.
 
i dont ride atm but when i did i rode 6 days a week a combination of riding (mostly), lunging, long reining and blasting around the field :D

normally 40 mins - an hour - horse was quite fit :)
 
Old lad is hacked for half an hour 3x week.

Dae long reined for 20 mins 3x week.

Fergs ridden 6x week (varies between 1 hour schooling/jumping once each per week, 40m-2hr hacks and 40 minute fast work/interval training the rest of the time) and lunged / long reined 1-2x week.

He usually gets Saturdays off, unless competing, when he gets Mondays off :)
 
I dont lunge or school anymore (we dont have a school-have an occasional lesson gets a bit expenive with school hire and lesson) so I hack out about 4 times a week. I used to get stressed if I didnt ride 6 times a week but now my horse is older (19) we are happy to hack out a few times a week and if I cant due to weather or work commitments we just pick up when we can.
 
I lunge once a week maybe and ride 2-3 times. I only lunge when the ground permits, as no school. I ride out then 2-3 times a week.
 
Four or five times a week, one of them lungeing. Lungeing is to work on downward transitions without a rider and riding is a mixture of hacking and schooling. My boy likes working but have to admit I didn't ride tonight as it was very windy - and therefore spooky - and there was noone around to pick me up if I came off! Consoled myself by getting ahead with jobs and giving my field mate's horse a good brush as she's on hols
 
My sharer rides two days a week, either schooling twice or one hack and one schooling session. I lunge him in the EquiAmi once a week and ride three days a week, generally schooling, one hack and one roadwork hack on hills to help his muscle development. This depends on my work schedule though as work is a 120 mile round trip, two or three times a week. The rest of the week I work from home.
 
Older horse ridden/lunged 4 -5 times/week, sometimes about 2 hour hack, youngster gets 1/2 hr 3 -4 times a week, occasional lungeing (no school).
 
I probably ride 4-5 days a week in summer, 3-4 days a week in winter. I don't stick to a rigid plan; if we've have a good (or bad!) few days schooling we'll go for a hack; if I'm pushed for time we'll just do a little bit in the school; if I remembered to put on my brave pants we'll do a bit of polework or jumping. We'll lunge more in the winter, or when we've hit a problem I think lunging could help, but not as a matter of course.

I used to stress about having schedules, and timetables, and trying to work out that each week I needed 1x lunging session, 1 x polework, 1 x hack, 2 x schooling ... then events get in the way and you miss one. Now we just do what I feel like (and very occasionally when I try to second guess what he feels like :p), including having random days off for a good wither scratch or massage or just a hello, and we're both happier as a result. :D
 
I ride 5 days a week (sometimes 4 depending on my work schedule). Two days a week hacking between 1 and two hours, three days schooling for an hour each time including a weekly private lesson. In addition my instructor will long rein/lunge one day a week if I can't get up to the yard to two days or more in a row. It seems my horse tends to thrive on having a constant workload and is at that stage where he gets bored (and hence Bolshy) if he's not being asked to learn anything new on a very regular basis.
I'm exhausted as I school before work so up at 6.30am then on the go till about 11pm when I fall in the door after work. Plus I drive 36 miles round trip in the morning to the yard followed by 24 mile round trip after that between home and work.
Will now stick to the same schedule over the coming winter as luckily now have an indoor so can ride anytime in any weather.
I really need to keep up the work with my horse as he's still a youngster that is at that sponge stage where he is keen to take in new things and is eager to please plus he needs to be fittened post surgery after a long spell on box rest.
 
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