08/09/2026
Brace yourself for a post full of clichés… but they are true.
1. Consistency is key - Bobby is slowly building muscle back after some time off due to a minor health issue. He’s worked little and often (half hour ish 5/6 times a week). But the consistency is proving fruitful. Exercising your horse frequently, with good quality exercises for a shorter time is so much better than taking them on 2 hour hacks once or twice a week.
Which brings me to my next cliché…
2. Quality over quantity - as with much of physio, it’s not the amount of times we can get your animal to do something, but the quality of the movement that matters. I can get your dog or horse to go over poles 10 times. But if they’re stumbling or hitting the pole 9 of those times, that’s not helping them, if anything it’s building negative associations. I’d rather get an animal to do a movement 3 good times and stop, than 10 times and 7 of them be done incorrectly.
3. It’s a marathon, not a sprint - building muscle takes time. There might not be that much difference between these two photos, but there is only 6 weeks between them, and it’s a start. Muscle takes time to build, quite a lot of time to be honest, but Bobby, his owner and his rider have been working so incredibly hard and it is starting to show and pay off!
Keep going guys and the next time I see you we’ll do some more bum shots! 😅❤️
