I´m looking for specific workouts for mine hobby horseriding[dressage]

Mine horse get's lately kinda out of control and I guess it's because I'm not fit enough to keep up with mine horse compared to a year ago when I went to the gym.

 

Currently I got a full-time job as a kitchen employee and mine hobby, and study in webprogramming so there isn't enough time for the gym seeing the distance of the closest one is 20 km away (I don't got a car).

 

Anyway, I'm looking for workouts specially for mine legs, maby the pelvis muscles if possible and stamina.

I'm already cycling around 25-30 km per hour on a race/normal bike combo.

 

I hope maby some'one know some good coordination training as well?

 

thanks in advance.

Edited June 2, 201115 yr by kensha

Got any off road surface near you? A bit of mountain biking will do wonders for your legs, more than road cycling by quite a bit.

 

Frankly though the actual dressage should be more than adequate exercise for your legs as my girl friend used to do it and her legs have gone downhill since she stopped

So far I know there isn`t an offroad any nearby there is a long road that stretch out without stoplights but for offroad, I don`t know any.

 

Anyway, mine horse isn`t quite for beginners so the helps I need to provide to mine horse needs to reach it, but I notice mine condition to mine leg isn`t been well to that. Thaugh mine stamina is but not the strength.

Squats are the king of leg exercises! Pretty difficult if you don't have a barbell and squat rack though. Maybe you can try prison squats, pistol squats or burpees? If you have a sandbag or old car tyre you can try sandbag thrusters. I guess you'd also need to do calf raises for horse riding, again difficult without weights but you can do them on 1 foot. You'd probably need to work adductor's and hips too... check http://www.exrx.net/Lists/Directory.html I love that site.

eat spinach

prison squats

 

I assume these involve reaching for a bar of soap without bending over?

Nice site Jock, i've been looking to sort myself out before i plan to cycle round the country so i'll be bookmarking this.

 

I assume these involve reaching for a bar of soap without bending over?

 

Damn beat me to it!

the soap?

witty comments FTW

the soap?

 

First i'd like to check why you're in my shower...

can't wait for the sex change. and it's MY shower!

That's just impatient!

Sorry i had no idea it was your shower, i'm off home for a bath and to cry... :'(

eat spinach

Wow! Another one kind of squats exercises?

Decent website to see what exercises you can do for ever muscle. http://www.coopersguns.com/videos/exercise-encyclopedia/

Wow I will bookmark that one j05hr thanks alot

dobule

Edited June 2, 201115 yr by kensha

all that cycling should give you plenty strong enough legs the problem is it will build up the wrong muscles for leg yielding your horse.

maybe try this? should get blood pumping at least

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975#p/u/63/gYnqvUuU4qw

Edited June 4, 201115 yr by zed

I curently use the link from j05hr and I have done some of the workouts on that website, and it goes nicely.

 

Anyway, I have also done some groundwork with mine horse and tomorow I will be back on mine sadle and I´ll see how she then reacts.

Edited June 4, 201115 yr by kensha

I would have initially suggested the White Woman Workout but seeing that you're a male, you might need to take a different route. I live in a "hilly" area so for me jogging is the best solution. Jogging/running on different terrains does help you develop and gain control of stamina. If you do not live in a hilly terrain, there are few treadmills that can simulate it. This can also be good to do with bicycles. In addition to that, I do some

. Military jogs are also a good exercise. You do this by placing some heavy objects in your backpack (about 30-50 pounds) or weight belts and run around your neighborhood a few times. Each day you increase the distance a lap or two.

@Sazzad, would this get me into the militairy if I do that on mine own?