Endurance Riding Optimized: Horse & Rider Readiness for the Long Game
Want to get started in endurance riding, move up in distance, and keep riding for years to come? Endurance Riding Optimized is about whole-horse, whole-rider readiness for the distance trail.
Join endurance rider, personal trainer, and nutrition coach Tamara Baysinger of The Sweaty Equestrian for practical episodes about conditioning your endurance horse, preparing for your first LD, 50-mile ride, improving rider fitness, navigating ride camp and vet checks, solving common training challenges, moving up to 100's, and building the skills and experience that help horse and rider succeed at distance riding.
If you’ve wondered How do I get started in endurance riding? How do I condition my horse for endurance? Are we ready for our first ride or to move up in distance? How fit do I need to be as a rider? How can I ride longer without getting tired? or How can I keep endurance riding as I get older?—then hit that "subscribe" button and come along for the ride.
Endurance Riding Optimized: Horse & Rider Readiness for the Long Game
Latest Episodes
Ep34 - Strategies for Slowing Down at the Start of an Endurance Ride
Links:The start of an endurance ride is challenging for many riders, especially when their horses want to go too fast. In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger - aka The Sweaty Equestrian - shares a combinat...
Ep33 - Chilled-Out Conditioning for Type A Endurance Riders
How much conditioning does your horse really need to get ready for endurance riding? In this episode, personal trainer and endurance rider Tamara Baysinger - aka The Sweaty Equestrian - explains why newer endurance horses benefit from a simple ...
Ep32 - Introducing: Endurance Riding Optimized
Exciting changes are coming to the podcast! In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger shares why Equestrian Fitness for the Long Ride is expanding to become Endurance Riding Optimized. Get a heads-up on what to expe...
Ep31 - Endurance Riding is More About Endurance Than Riding
Do you want to ride Tevis someday? Or ride your first 50? Or pursue some other big riding or personal fitness goal? In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger challenges you to balance that big dream with the mundane...
Ep30 - Will This Belief Limit Your Performance at Your Next Endurance Ride?
This is not a good time to start a rider fitness program...or is it? Speaking from experience, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger, aka The Sweaty Equestrian, challenges the common assumption that there's no point starting a f...