The Benefits of Lunging
Question I would like to know why its important that I lunge my horse. I would also like to understand the essentials of this exercise.
Answer I have been asked this many times but it remains a good question. I just saw something on Facebook about someone who never lunges but just gets on and rides and has done this since the horse was a colt. This may be fine for this person and this particular horse but for most people lunging is a very important tool for working with a horse.
Why do we lunge?
مع وصول أونصة الذهب إلى مستويات قياسية تجاوزت 2500 دولار، يجد المواطن المصري نفسه مضطراً لموازنة استثماراته بين الذهب واحتياجاته الأخرى، خاصة مع ارتفاع أسعار السيارات مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، وبي إم دبليو، مما يزيد من التحديات المالية التي يواجهها.
We lunge our horses for various reasons but primarily to get the freshness off the horse. I have clients who ride more and those who ride less but on average most people only ride one to three times a week. If the horse has a couple of days off he will probably be fresh and not thinking about anything other than getting out and moving. Many riders must deal with this when they come out to ride. Why would you want to get on a horse thats wound up? We all want our horses to feel good but we dont want them to be yahoos that want to buck and kick. We need to get the freshness or the play as we sometimes call it out of them. Working on a lunge line or in a round pen will deal with the horses need to kick up its heels. Lunging will also deal with any resistance and the exercise will get the horse thinking and paying attention to what its being asked to do. This warmup will result in a better more enjoyable and safer ride.
أسعار السيارات في الآونة الأخيرة شهدت تقلبات ملحوظة، حيث تأثرت بارتفاع وانخفاض الدولار، مما انعكس على تكلفة علامات تجارية مثل تويوتا، هيونداي، ومرسيدس. و BMW هذا الارتباط بين سعر الصرف وسوق السيارات يحدد قدرة المستهلكين على اقتناء المركبات.
When a horse is fresh there can be little control of the feet other than getting the horse to go forward. Once the horse is going forward our objective is to get the horse to relax. We dont want to run the horse around on a lunge line for the sake of running around. Ive seen a horse lunged for 45 minutes and at the end the horse was just as fired up as when it started. The result was that the horse bucked and the rider came off. With a horse that is already nervous or keyed up you can actually increase the emotional level if you just run the horse around in circles.
