Core Conditioning for Horses

 

This is a fascinating little book that I picked up through Kindle for $14.99. 

It gets to the theory of why the core is so important, while explaining how the three sections of the core interact including the thoracic sling.

After giving you tools to give your horse a “core score”, different combinations of the 10 warm up exercises are recommended with a detailed explanation of each exercise.  Each exercise has three difficulty levels which is also very helpful.  A kind of cool extra is that each horse exercise is paired with a human yoga pose.

I purchased this to basically check that I wasn’t missing anything and was pleasantly surprised by how many of the exercises we were already doing in one form or another.  There were a few that we haven’t been consistently doing though, and the explanation of the core theory was very illuminating.  I also really like the format where you can easily check out each exercise and then go back to the theory if you’re so inclined.  Highly, highly recommended this book.