Horses need daily exercise to stay healthy.If you own a horse, you need to make sure your horse has regular exercise sessions to maintain a healthy weight.Warm up your horse with a walk or trot.Do riding and non-riding exercises with your horse to build its strength.If you want your horse to be injury free, end every exercise session with cooling down.
Step 1: If you're riding, put on some clothes.
Next, put a saddle on your horse.The bridle should be put on your horse.Don't pinching your horse if your equipment is securely fastened.If the weather is warm, you can tack up your horse outside in a fenced off area.If it is not too hot, plan the exercise early in the day.Being tacked inside might be better for some horses.If the weather is cold, you should keep your horse warm by tacking it up in an indoor facility.You can lead your horse through a warm-up if you can't ride it.
Step 2: A ten minute walk is all you need.
Warm up your horse's muscles by going for a slow walk on an easy trail or in a riding ring indoors.You can either ride the horse or hold the rope and walk beside it.The walk should include some right and left turns.The horse can be walked in both directions.You can stretch your horse's neck with this.
Step 3: A trot is for ten minutes.
Encourage your horse to do a trot after a slow walk to get its blood flowing.You can go on a different trail.During the trot, do several figure eights and circles so your horse can warm up.If you jog next to the horse and hold the lead rope, you can encourage it to trot.In both directions, do this.
Step 4: The warm-up can be done with a lunge line.
During the warm-up, you can use a lunge line.The lunge line leads to an outdoor pen or indoor ring.For ten to fifteen minutes in both directions, have it walk, trot, and canter on the lunge line.This could lead to injury if you lunge your horse on a circle with a diameter less than 20 meters.Lunging your horse in cold weather should be easy.Don't let your horse run wild.
Step 5: Take your horse for a walk.
Find hills that are gradual and not too steep.When riding the horse up and down hills, use your abdominal muscles to balance.A great way to build up your horse's strength is hill training.Once your horse is warmed up, take it up and down the hills.It should be in good shape.
Step 6: Ground poles can be used.
Start with a ground pole if your horse has never used one before.The poles should be placed between 2.5 to 3 inches apart.Place the horse between the poles 4 to 4.5 inches apart.The cantering poles should be 9 to 10 inches apart.Make sure your horse's feet are in the center of the space between the poles.
Step 7: For ten minutes.
There is a rocking motion when you have the horse move.It is a good way to build up your horse's strength.Break cantering sessions up with periods of walking or other exercises.
Step 8: Your horse should gallop.
Encourage the horse to gallop.If your horse has been warmed up with a walk and a trot, gallop it.You can gallop on a trail or in an indoor pen.Before doing any other exercises, you should do a one- to three-mile walk to cool down your horse.Only gallop a horse that is in good shape.
Step 9: Do a jump with your horse.
You can train your horse to jump over a course if it is a show horse.Jump with raised poles and small rails.Take your horse on a jumping circuit to build its strength and endurance.An appointment with a trainer is necessary if your horse is new to jumping.They can create a program that works for your horse.Cross rails should be the first jump for horses that are just learning to jump.Work your horse to higher jumps.If your horse is in good health, do jumping training with it.
Step 10: Take your horse for a ride in a pasture.
If the horse isn't a riding horse, let it go for a walk on its own.It should be allowed to eat in a fenced in pasture for at least 30 minutes to an hour a day.If there are other horses in the pasture, let your horse run and interact with them.This is a good way to spend time with your horse.
Step 11: You can give your horse toys.
Horses push toys like giant balls.You can buy your horse toys at your local equestrian store.Your horse can kick them around if you keep them in the fenced pasture.It is a good idea to pick toys that are designed for horses.Don't buy toys with sharp ends or hard sides.Milk jugs, balls, and kiddie pools are great horse toys.They can be put in your horse's stall for fun.
Step 12: Encourage your horse to go swimming.
Swimming is a great way to exercise your horse.Horses like to swim in a lake, pond, or pool.The horse should be comfortable in shallow puddles and low water.It should go further into the water and start to swim.When your horse is in water, always watch it.Pull your horse out of the water if it starts to sink.Try riding your horse in shallow water.It engages new muscle groups.
Step 13: The lunge line can be used to work your horse.
Hold the lunge line on the horse in one hand.Hold the whip in your other hand.The horse should be placed in the center of the pen with your arms in a V-shape.The horse is in a circle.The whip can be used to drive the horse's hind legs.The lunge line should be used in both directions.The whip should only be used lightly on the horse's hind legs.Don't hit it hard with the whip.
Step 14: There is a trail that you can take a walk on with your horse.
If you want to work out without riding, you can go for a one-mile walk on a trail with a lead rope on your horse.Walk beside the horse as you lead it on the walk.You can use an easy trail outdoors.
Step 15: For ten to fifteen minutes, walk your horse.
If your horse has had a good exercise session, you can take it for a walk in a shady area outside or inside.It can reduce its heart rate by walking slowly and easily.
Step 16: If it's very hot outside, spray your horse.
If your horse is exercising on a hot day, sponge or spray it with cool water.It will help to cool it down.If you want your horse to cool down quickly, spray it down in a shady area.You can dry your horse with a towel or a sweat scraper.
Step 17: There is a blanket on the horse.
To keep your horse's body temperature from dropping too low after exercise, place a blanket made of polar fleece around its mid-section.If you sweat on your horse, the polar fleece will keep it warm.You can keep the horse warm by covering it with blankets.To keep your horse warm, use a base cooler blanket and a second blanket.
Step 18: Put your horse down and brush it.
It's a good idea to use a towel to remove any water between its legs, chest, and elbow.It should be wiped of its flank and abdomen as well.It is not at risk of developing a chill.Remove all the blankets from your horse once you have dried it.It will fluff its undercoat if you brush it from head to tail.The undercoat protects it from the cold.
Step 19: It should cool off before you feed it.
Give your horse a drink of water.Give it any hay or feed when the temperature drops to 102 degrees.Use a rectal thermometer to take your horse's temperature.Feeding it when it is still warm can increase its risk of colic, so don't give it grain until it has reached a normal body temperature.Count your horse's breaths for 15 seconds and then multiply by four if you don't have a thermometer.A cooled-down horse should have between eight and sixteen breaths per minute.