Ambers Echo
Well-Known Member
Does this sort of things exist for horse riders?? I am very happy with my separate dressage and jumping instructors but I feel like it would be useful to have a plan that pulls it all together and includes fitness and schooling in between the lessons. I can only afford lessons once a month or so in each discipline so most of the time I am just bumbling along fairly cluelessly.
When I was doing a lot of triathlons I used to just swim/bike/run whenever in a fairly haphazard way but for one year when I was wanting to do an ironman I used an online coach who structured my training for me and gave me feedback on each session and told me what competitions to use as training/warm up comps to prepare for the event and what strength training I needed to add in etc. He identifuied my weaknesses and focused the training around those. The improvement by adding in some structure and focus was astonishing even though I did not really train that many more hours a week. And it did not cost much either as it was just a weekly email with the following week's plan attached and very occasionally a phone call.
Does such a thing exist for riders? Do you think it would help? If so, can anyone recommend anyone? My jumping and dressage lessons are private so I can work on what I want to work on in them. TIA x
When I was doing a lot of triathlons I used to just swim/bike/run whenever in a fairly haphazard way but for one year when I was wanting to do an ironman I used an online coach who structured my training for me and gave me feedback on each session and told me what competitions to use as training/warm up comps to prepare for the event and what strength training I needed to add in etc. He identifuied my weaknesses and focused the training around those. The improvement by adding in some structure and focus was astonishing even though I did not really train that many more hours a week. And it did not cost much either as it was just a weekly email with the following week's plan attached and very occasionally a phone call.
Does such a thing exist for riders? Do you think it would help? If so, can anyone recommend anyone? My jumping and dressage lessons are private so I can work on what I want to work on in them. TIA x