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10K views · 114 reactions | 🪑 Stuck in a chair seat? Here’s a quick fix! ⚒️ If your legs are too far forward and your upper body leans back, your balance is off—and so is your horse’s! Bring your legs underneath you so your hips, shoulders, and heels are in line. This will help you stay balanced and allows your horse to move freely and lightly in the bridle. ✨🙋‍♀️ Want more tips to improve your position and ride with confidence? Come to my Free Rider Position Training and learn my three secrets for a good rider position. 👉 My next training is happening this Wednesday, March 5th, at 8am PT. Comment “RSVP” below and I’ll send you the link to save your seat! 🐴💫 #horseriding #dressagehorse #horsetrainingtips | Amelia Newcomb Dressage

2.2K views · 813 reactions | Why is it a good idea to warm your hips up before riding? 1. Improves Hip Mobility and Range of Motion - Riding requires hip flexion, extension, abduction, and rotation—all of which influence your ability to move with your horse. A warm-up increases synovial fluid production, which lubricates the joints, making movement smoother and reducing stiffness. 2. Enhances Balance and Stability in the Saddle - Your hips act as a shock absorber and help you stay centered over your horse. Activating your glutes, core, and hip stabilizers before riding improves your ability to maintain balance, especially during transitions, lateral movements, and jumping. 3. Reduces Tension and Grip in the Saddle - Tight hip flexors and adductors (inner thigh muscles) can lead to gripping with the knees, which disrupts your seat and makes it harder to follow your horse’s movement. Warming up encourages relaxation and suppleness, allowing your leg to drape around your horse rather than brace. 4. Prevents Injury and Strain - aCold, tight muscles are more prone to strains and overuse injuries. A good warm-up increases blood flow to the muscles, preparing them for the demands of riding and reducing the risk of pain or discomfort afterward. 5. Improves Communication with Your Horse - Your hips are a key part of aiding and cueing (e.g., half-halts, collection, lateral work). When your hips are mobile and engaged, you can apply subtle aids more effectively, leading to better responsiveness from your horse. #MichelleMethod #MM #Equestrian #Equine #Strength #Conditioning #Fitness #Exercise #RideStrong | Michelle Method

1.2K reactions · 37 shares | Comment HIPS if you want to ride with a better seat! 🐴 Learn exercises like this one and more in our Stable Seat: 4 Weeks to Stronger Hips program that starts 02/24! 🚨 — In order to have good control of your seat and an effective leg position, you have to work on hip strength and mobility along with core stability! 🐎 In the Half Kneeling Single Leg Squat, you.. ✅ Strengthen glutes for better pelvic stability ✅ Increase hip mobility ✅ Encourage core stability by maintaining an upright posture ✅ Internally rotate hips to prevent outward flaring of toes while riding TIPS FOR THIS EXERCISE: 🌟 The extended leg should be internally rotated, with the foot pointing straight and flat on the floor. This position encourages proper hip alignment in the saddle 🌟 Make sure you come up and down slowly and with extreme control to really engage and activate your core and hips 🌟 Place an extra pad or mat on the kneeling knee if you need to provide more cushion on your knee Save this exercise for your next workout!! #RIDEFIT | Haybales & Barbells ™ | Fitness for Equestrians

7K views · 714 reactions | Save this, it’s a keeper! This is a fantastic mobility exercise I want to share with you! 🤠 Will you give it a go? 💪🤩 Comment I’m IN if you want to join this challenge! Coach Nina xxx | Athleteq - Fitness and Health for Equestrian Athletes

976 reactions · 41 shares | Without strength, there is no suppleness! 🙅🏻‍♀️ More often than not, your hips are weak and not tight. Weak hips can lead to ineffective use of your seat, decrease your hip angle, and block the energy from your horse while you’re riding! 🐴 Luckily there are a lot of hip strengthening exercises you can do at home. 🏡 Here are just a few examples: ✅ Half Kneeling Side Lying Leg Raise ✅ Butterfly Folds ✅ Seated Straight Leg Hip Flexion ✅ Squat Side Steps Follow me for more fun exercises that will help you become the strongest rider you can be for your horse! ❤️ #RIDEFIT | Haybales & Barbells ™ | Fitness for Equestrians

20K views · 884 reactions | 🌟 My top 5 most viewed posts of 2024 - #4:⁣ ⁣ 🙋‍♀️ Do you tip forward in the saddle?⁣ ⁣ In part 1 we looked at 3 main reasons why riders tip forward in the saddle. Here are some exercises to help with this.⁣ ⁣ 🏇If you tip forward at the chest because you are anxious or nervous, or gripping on with your upper abdominals, then working on your diaphragmatic breathing is key to improving this.⁣ ⁣ 🌬️First try my diaphragm reset video (scroll back to find it), and then then work on diaphragm breathing in crook lying - think of inhaling fully in through your nose into the bottom of your rib cage in a 360 degree expansion, keeping your neck and shoulders relaxed. Then exhale through your mouth and allow your stomach to flatten as the air is expelled. You can challenge this further by coming up into a bridge position with your hands pointing towards the ceiling and doing a few diaphragmatic breaths there, and you can move your arms further back to make it even more challenging. Aim for 20 deep diaphragmatic breaths.⁣ ⁣ 🏇If you tip forward at the hips, then working on strengthening your hip flexor muscles into a lengthened position can be a game changer. Having psoas strength in a lengthened position helps to keep your torso upright. If you find hinging at the hips a tricky movement to master you can start in high kneeling, pushing the hips back and then forward. The bungi adds resistance for you to work against, improving that strength into lengthened position. Then progress this to standing, this is the first exercise in the Activate Your Seat level 1 video in the bungi. Repeat 10 times and aim for 3 sets.⁣ ⁣ 🏇If you tip forward because your pelvis tips into anterior rotation then aim to strengthen all the muscles around your pelvis. First posteriorly rotate your pelvis against the resistance of the bungi as a repetitive movement to learn the movement pattern. Then you can add thoracic rotation, this is a level 1 video exercise. And then you can progress to holding the posterior rotation against the resistance of the bungi and adding a pulsed squat. This is a level 2 video exercise. Aim for 10 reps, 3 sets.⁣ ⁣ 🙋‍♀️ Which area do you need to work on?⁣ ⁣ 💙 Maeve⁣ | Activate Your Seat

42K views · 3K reactions | 3 exercises to get your abs working for YOU in the sitting trot 🐎 Equestrians don’t need a six pack. However, a strong core is important for several reasons: 1) We want to follow and absorb the horse’s movements with supple hips. The torso should be as stable as possible and not wobble around, tilt or perform unwanted belly dance movements. This is a challenge for your core muscles, especially in extended trot or if your horse naturally is a big mover.  2) We don’t want our hips to just move along passively. If you want to use your seat to influence the movement of the trot, e.g. during half halts, you can control your pelvic movements via your core muscles. 3) Last but not least, a strong core is one of the best preventative measures you can take to avoid injuries, spinal problems, back pain and the like.  Try this for 7 days and feel the difference – let us know how it goes and don’t forget to tag us! 👉 Exercise 1: Partner exercise! To warm-up start with this neuro drill using non-linear, complex movements to increase cerebellar activity and improve your reflexive stability. Try to perform the figure of eight with your wrists as smoothly as possible despite the interference. 30 seconds per arm 👉 Exercise 2: In contrast to “normal” sit-ups, this exercise allows you to contract your abdominal muscles from a stretched position. You can make the exercise a little easier by placing the foam roller higher towards the shoulder blades. Important: Make sure you don’t change the position of your bottom and legs during the exercise. 10 controlled reps 👉 Exercise 3: Draw your belly button towards your spine and press your lower back into the floor throughout the exercise! When you notice that your back is coming away from the floor, do the easier version with your legs bent. 10 reps each side #aubenhausenclub #dressurfit #riderfitness #equestrianfitness #dressage #dressageseat #dressagerider #equestrian | Aubenhausen Club International

20K views · 229 reactions | A LOT of questions have rolled in about our training tools, so we're here to answer them (and maybe bust a few misconceptions, too ) | ProHorse Training

217K views · 2.9K reactions | 3 steps to better seated trot @topfans | Advantage Horsemanship with Scott Purdum

14K views · 141 reactions | And then repeat until you don't need your reins anymore If your goal is ride your horse at liberty, your starting place will be to refine your cues -- over and over again - | ProHorse Training

8.1K views · 1.2K reactions | A common issue I encounter in clinics every week: A lack of “following arms” in the walk, and especially the canter, gallop and jump. This has to be a major focus of one’s riding. Your arms should elastically follow the natural gestures of the neck and head during the walk, canter and gallop. Two clinic dates remain open until March: January 10-12 and January 17-19. To book a clinic, visit equestriancoach.com. Tactful, sensitive hands that are used with feeling can be developed using the exercises I demonstrate in my lesson linked in bio. 🔗 | EquestrianCoach

90K views · 2K reactions | Contact or Free Rein? Wow! We’ve had such a tremendous response, and stirred up so much controversy with our recent video HOLD YOUR HORSES, that we feel... | By Mind Your Horse | Facebook

9.8K views · 1.7K reactions | Is your horse listening properly to your inside leg? | Leo Rauscher

51K views · 2.1K reactions | How do you apply your lower leg? How much have you really thought about it? When we are taught to ride, our coaches, usually cue us to “squeeze our legs“ to get the horse to move forward. While that is fine for a novice, often it is not greatly refined or differently taught as we progress in our skills. Most of us still rely quite heavily on our hamstrings to pull our lower leg back, our adductors to squeeze our knees in, and our hip flexors to pull our thigh up when trying to apply the lower leg. While I’m obviously exaggerating in this video, the issue with this type of aid is that it creates a very unstable base, usually throws our body to the side or collapses our lateral trunk (which the horse compensates for), and provides a disjointed pressure through the leg. To maintain a secure lower leg and provide consistent pressure through the whole limb, leg aids should be generated more at the hip, not at the knee. That means hip muscles should be the main drivers, with the hamstrings and adductors working primarily to provide stability, not movement. The main movers should be your hip extensors and rotators, mainly your glute max and glute med. Instead of pulling your lower leg up to drive the back of your calf into the horse, think of keeping the front of your hip long and squeezing your glute to move a stable leg. This will help you keep your torso much more stable, keep your pelvis fairly soft, and provide consistent pressure through your entire lower leg, not just at your knee or the back of your calf. Give it a try on your next ride and let me know what you think! This one hit home? The Equestrian Physio Training App will be launching this fall! Check the link in my bio to sign up for the waitlist and be the first to know when it launches! | The Equestrian Physio