08/19/2026
S Lazy H Workshop — TIP TUESDAY 🐴💨
How many of you are truly conditioning your horse’s lungs AND muscles at least 1–2 times a week with some full-speed work?
In my opinion, this is one of the #1 things we overlook when trying to keep our horses competitive at a high level physically.
We spend so much time working the pattern, slow working, tuning, exercising and keeping them legged up—but being legged up and being conditioned to RUN are two different things.
Our horses are athletes. We ask them to explode, accelerate, turn hard, recover and finish strong. Their lungs and muscles need to be prepared for that workload before we ask for it in competition.
You can’t expect your horse to give you 100% at a run if you never condition their body for 100% effort at home.
Build the lungs. Build the muscle. Build the athlete. 💪🐴
As always—conditioning should be appropriate for the individual horse, footing, weather and fitness level. Build up to harder efforts rather than taking an unconditioned horse straight to a full sprint.
S Lazy H Workshop Tip Tuesday
