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Conditioning Schedule

This document provides guidelines for creating a monthly conditioning calendar and weekly schedule to prepare a horse for competition season. It recommends determining the date of your first event and working backwards to establish when weekly training with gallop days and interval training should begin. The sample weekly schedule outlines different types of work for each day, including dressage, gymnastics, galloping, and rest. The gallop schedule provides examples of trot and gallop sets to gradually increase the horse's fitness from beginner novice to preliminary level over 10 weeks. Tips are given for structuring conditioning appropriately based on the horse's stress levels and respiration.

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Conditioning Schedule

This document provides guidelines for creating a monthly conditioning calendar and weekly schedule to prepare a horse for competition season. It recommends determining the date of your first event and working backwards to establish when weekly training with gallop days and interval training should begin. The sample weekly schedule outlines different types of work for each day, including dressage, gymnastics, galloping, and rest. The gallop schedule provides examples of trot and gallop sets to gradually increase the horse's fitness from beginner novice to preliminary level over 10 weeks. Tips are given for structuring conditioning appropriately based on the horse's stress levels and respiration.

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Conditioning and Training Calendars

Make copies of a blank monthly calendar page and fill it in with your conditioning schedule each month
following the tips and suggestions below.
To get your horse into condition for the competition season. Use a Weekly Schedule modeled after the
conditioning schedule outlined below. Determine what your first event will be, then work backwards
from that date to determine when your weekly schedule with gallop days / interval training must begin.

Weekly Schedule
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
(go to day 1)

-Day off
-Long and low dressage
-Gallop day (see below)
-Dressage
-Gymnastics (jump day)
-Dressage
-Gallop day (see below)

On calendars, include:
Type of work (dressage, gymn./jump, gallop, day off)
Total amount of time you expect youll ride
What 2-3 things you plan to do or concentrate on (suppling,
canter departs, caveletti, etc)
Gallop day, include number and type of sets
Include lunging or warm-up info as well
On day off, specify if that means turn-out or in the stall..

Gallop Schedule
(Note: start gallops only after horse has had 6 weeks steady work)
Gallop day

Trot Sets

Gallop sets (400-475 mpm or less) Break between each set

1st
2nd
3rd
4th

Three
Three
Three
Three

5 min. sets
5 min. sets
5 min. sets
5 min. sets

One
4 min. set
2 min.
Two 3 min. sets
2 min.
Two 3 min. sets
2 min.
Two 4 min. sets
2 min.
Horse is now ready for first Beg. Novice event of the season.

5th
6th

Three 5 min. sets


Four 5 min. sets

Two 4 min. sets


2 min.
Three 3 min. sets
2 min.
Horse is now ready for first Novice event of the season.

7th
8th

Four
Four

5 min
5 min

Three 3 min.
2 min.
Three 4 min.
2 min.
Horse is now ready for first Training event of the season.

9th
10th

Two
Two

10 min
10 min

Three 4 min.
2 min.
Three 4 min.
2 min.
Horse is now ready for first Preliminary event of the season

Tips for Conditioning / Training Schedule

No two hard or strenuous days in a row


Day after a hard school, get them to loosen and stretch
After a day off, no hard schools (e.g. dont go gallop or after a day off!)
Gauge stress of gallops by symptoms; respirations, heart rate recovery, tiredness next day
Avoid steep downgrades when galloping
For Preliminary, build up to 20 minute trots
For Training, eventually build up to four 5 min. trots and three 4 min. gallop sets
For hotter horses, do less number of gallops but make them longer and slower (e.g. two 6 min. at
375-400mpm rather than three 4 min., just have total time add up to the same number)
Note horses respiration when galloping. If over 100/min., then thats enough for the day. Also give
them a longer walk if their respirations are not coming down between your sets.
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