Building Muscle

[Little Wolf Ranch]

I am looking to see what exercises everyone does with their minis over the winter so they are ready for showing come spring. I am not looking to add supplements for muscle, I am wanting to increase muscle through good nutrition and exercise.

My show horses for next year are currently on 13% protein 9% fat pelleted grain, alfalfa pellets, soaked beet pulp pellets, calf manna and oats.

I have been doing free lunging in a large round pen for about 10 minutes a day and have been doing ground work practice but I feel I need to do more work to get the tone I am looking for. All my show horses are over the age of 3 so I have been starting their hunter and jumper training as well.

Thanks yall!

 

[Marsha Cassada]

You could add cavaletti to your round pen work.

 

[paintponylvr]

The trainer that had my 2 yr old stallion said that she would "pony" him off of the golf cart for 45 minutes at a trot (I remember her fields & roads being flat). I don't know how she broke it up to condition for that - that was at the end of his training/conditioning period before going to Congress.

This is what he looked like at Congress -

Pro photo in the ring -