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Flexibility needed to ride a Horse?

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Re: Flexibility needed to ride a Horse?

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Postby PinkDalek » June 22nd, 2020, 9:28 pm

MaraMan wrote:My apologies for my semantic inexactitude :lol:


Not at all. It helped me to get up to date on the situation, seeing quite a few of these vehicles being ridden illegally on a daily basis!

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Re: Flexibility needed to ride a Horse?

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Postby stewamax » June 23rd, 2020, 10:18 am

Find a good riding school (ask around).
Most riders experience short-term pain in their adductor muscles (inside of the upper thigh) after a layoff - typically after the summer when the horses come in from grass.
And, if taught properly, riding will do wonders for your posture. Riding without stirrups (i.e. the instructor will tell you to 'quit and cross your stirrups') teaches you that riding by balance (''get your weight in your heels") needs a straight vertical line between heels and top of head. Just watch a good dressage rider.
'Tis good for your lower back too, as it engenders fore-and-back flexibility in the L4 through L6 vertebra, very similar in fact to that of a more intimate exercise...
Do it!!


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