Toning Stomach Muscles?

[maddielove]

I'm not 100% sure this is what my horse really needs, but I guess it's worth a shot. She appears to have rather weak stomach muscles (looks like the underside of her stomach is on her side sort of, think toning them might help) so I'm looking at how to go about tonining them up

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Can anyone recomend any exercises for this, I know that nothing probably does as much good as working in a good shape/outline but this is proving difficult as she's recovering from bruising on her back cause her saddle has been slipping (should get it back tomorrow though)
Also, would a pessoa be any good, I have one but horse is a bit of a menace to lunge (getting tonnes better so could give it a go again)
Bit of a dithering post, sorry!
Thanks in advance

 

[samp]

Anything that is going to get her to use her back really so lungeing in pessoa, pole work etc

 

[maddielove]

That sounds good, we're doing pole work just now (for physio) so maybe she's working her stomach then (prolly why her stomach muscles look very queer from working them)

 

[WishfulThinker]

If she works properly through her back then her stomach muscles will lift. You will be able to see a line running up to her hip when she is using her stomach properly.