Trying to organise my riding plans

Puzzle4ever

Puzzle4ever

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Hi,
I am looking to try and organise a weekly plan for working my horse. I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas of how I could organise this etc.
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I try and ride my horse weekends more than weekdays, as I don't finish work until 6pm. Although in the spring/summer I tend to ride in the week more. I jump once a week, and compete once a month and anything else is not set in stone.
 
Sorry no help but I read the thread title as "Trying to organise my riding pants". I thought:
a. who has riding pants?
b. just put them in the drawer

:D :D :D
 
How do you want to organise it? You need something that fits around your life and goals.
For me, I have a lesson on a Wednesday and normally compete on a Sunday. I like to get him out for a decent hack in the light on a Saturday as that is the only day time I have free in winter.
That leaves Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Out of those, I will try and do a schooling session which I will fit in around school availability and a hack in the dark, for fitness but I am flexible so if the weather is bad, that's a day off.
 
I'm a bit pants (but not the padded dressage type haha) at having any kind of plan and it can lead to just pottering around with no real purpose, and isn't great at keeping me motivated. Doing the Wobbleberry Challenge has really helped me though in having a goal to work to, breaking that down into its different elements and then working out what I need to do to get there. So set yourself a bigger goal that's do able but a stretch, and try working out a plan to get there

For me it's a mix of flatwork, polework, jumping and fitness hacking, plus competitions building up to the final goal, a BE80. Because that involves dressage sj and xc it's got lots of elements to work on.

I've also started doing one session to music, interval training around each song, that's more fun. And doing school sessions with a friend has helped keep me on track too.
 
I approach this from 2 angles- the first being what you can manage (fitting around work, family, other commitments) and the second being the type of training that works for the individual horse.

The latter is a huge factor for me because I have 2 completely different horses and my training plan has to be totally different for each. For instance, the diva thrives out hacking and I like to make this a priority, but when we do school work, I've discovered that she really needs to do 2 days on the run in the school. So we do 2 days schooling now and then 2 days hacking and so on. Wet weather or me feeling rough dictates our day off. Obviously during the darker winter days, hacking is out of the question after work, so I did that at the weekend, then did my 2 days schooling in the week, plus a lunge day, day off...
In summer, we compete every other weekend and go out to a farm ride on the weekend in between. The week is spent hacking, mostly.


The hooligan has to be trained completely differently, he thrives on school work and frankly needs to do a lot more of it to keep his ludicrous brain engaged. I also incorporate road walking into his schedule, after a tendon injury a few years ago. It's a system that works for us and has kept him sound.
 
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