How Your Horse Moves: A Unique Visual Guide to Improving Performance: A Graphic Guide to Understanding How Your Horse Works - Hardcover

Higgins, Gillian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0715329928 ISBN 13: 9780715329924

Verlag: David & Charles, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

• Understand how bones and muscles work together to produce movement by seeing the musculoskeletal system painted on a real equine canvas
• Discover how correct riding and training can bring out the best in your horse ? increasing fitness, strength and balance ? by seeing exactly what happens as he moves
• Practical exercises and stretches demonstrate how you can improve suppleness, reduce the risk of injury, gain confidence and develop a deeper rapport with your horse

This unique ?inside-out? view of how the horse uses its body is presented in a graphic, easy-to-follow way to aid in improving all aspects of riding and training. You'll discover the true effect of riding and training on each part of the horse by seeing the skeleton and major muscles painted on the outside. Practical exercises demonstrate how to improve movement, build the right muscles and increase suppleness in the horse. Includes step-by-step guidance on the correct way to warm-up your horse and stretching routines to help guard against injury.

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Gillian Higgins is a professional equine sports therapist with her own equine massage and manipulation business and regularly writes forYour Horse and British Dressage magazine. She has a first class Equine Business Management degree and holds qualifications in human sports and remedial massage. In 2006 she began a lecture demonstration programme, Horses Inside Out, to great acclaim.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: David & Charles
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0715329928
• ISBN 13: 9780715329924
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 153
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