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Greetings!
Hiya, new member of the group here :) I've been theoretically 5:2ing for over a year, but more seriously this year - combined with increased activity I've lost about 10kg. I'm not super strict with fast day calories, and I still eat too much on the other days, but it's working anyway, hooray! Nice to join y'all - anything…
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Riding-specific exercise
What exercises do you do, or recommend, to improve your horse-riding? And what weaknesses do you need to address? I'm a big fan of Pilates and Yoga, for core strength and general flexibility and body awareness. Ballet is great for this too! Plus bodyweight strength exercises - push-ups, crunches and reverse crunches, fire…
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Would you rather...
... have a horse that came to you well trained, that you could ride competitively at a high level in your chosen discipline? Or a green horse that you brought on yourself, that might never achieve huge things, but you did it all together? I have chosen the second - my horse is a rescue, when I got him 2 years ago he was…
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Trainers - the good, the bad, the mediocre...
I'm a pretty self-sufficient gym user - I read a lot, I set my own goals and research my own work-outs - but working at a recreation centre, I thought I'd take advantage of the chance to use one of the centre's trainers to make some suggestions to my training. So I tell him - I do c25k 2-3 times a week, ride my horse 2-3…
