How to Find Your Right Challenge Level
Learn a simple test to find the right challenge, intensity and duration, for YOU. Plus join me in the next guided movement as I finish up my ride in Mongolia!
Movement for Riders
Online Guided Program
No matter your age, your injuries, your current fitness level, and your riding abilities, you can improve your movement!
Until recently, the medical community thought that the brain is adaptable only until about age 25.
Then it’s all downhill from there.
Neurons start to die and no more growth or major changes can occur.
That’s just not true.
Research has debunked this belief, showing that the brain and neural system throughout our bodies is constantly adapting, all through our lives.
This is good news for us as riders!
It means that no matter what age you started riding (or returned!), or how one-sided or uncoordinated you feel now, you CAN change!
It does take effort, but not “work out until you are sweaty and exhausted” effort, just consistent effort to do key movements each day.
In my experience as a riding instructor, nothing affects a rider’s abilities to learn and improve in their skills more than their level of body awareness.
When we are connected to our bodies, we have a sense of our center, our balance, and fluid movement that transfers to the saddle.
All the techniques of riding, rein handling, seat and leg cues, are learned and refined faster and more easily.
The effort you put in to improve your movement and body awareness will go far beyond your time in the saddle.
Imagine the other activities you do each day, which of these could be more enjoyable if you felt more strong, mobile, and fit?
Movement is Life.
It’s not about how much you can do, or what you can do, as one of my teachers, Jonathan Fletcher says, “if you have a body and a willingness to learn you can do movement”.
Now, remember back to Part 1 of this training, where we talked about the nervous system and how it affects our balance, mobility, and strength.
The right exercises, at the right level, can make an immediate difference in our movement.
The key is to pay attention to how you feel and how your body responds to different movements.
There is a technique to test different movements, that’s what I want to share with you in this next video:
How to Test What Movement is Right for You
What did you think of this eye movement exercise? Pretty wild how a movement so small can have such an impact! We do more of these kinds of eye exercises in Movement for Riders. (I’ve been experimenting with practicing these mounted too.)
Now for our next follow along session – this one is focused on spine health, we are going to do some easy twists, circles, and hangs to take care of your back. (I needed this one after a long day of riding, and an almost tumble off a reindeer.)
Movement for Riders
Online Guided Program
Join this challenge for:
- 30 Follow Along Movement Routines Just For Riders
- Science of Movement Class
- Exercise Index
How do you feel after these few movements?
Leave a comment below! If you have any questions, I am happy to answer those too 🙂