Detraining And FR
Clock forward today. Txs to anonymous comment. After a few more posts to wrap up injury prevention I'm hoping the stars will align correctly and me, my horse and this blog can get onto the subject of "performance".
"Detraining" is a term I've used to describe the physiological processes involved in "layoff", and this could be one day to six months. Unknown whether this is a term used in exercise physiologists, but surely they have some descriptive word describing what occurs within bone tissue, muscles, and also tendons and ligaments from one bout of exercise to the next, however long that may be. For me the word is detraining.
As everything with our horse we need view detraining in terms of injury prevention and performance. For performance the idea is straightforward--how are those measurable performance parameters, speed, stamina, strength, etc. affected by layoffs. This aspect will have to be covered when discussing performance. The question of the moment: how do lay offs affect injury prevention?
Take note that lay off refers to that time from the end of the last exercise to the next. It may also refer to periods within the exercise program between particular types of exercise--e.g. how long between speed work, although we're sending the horse out every day for slow gallops. Or, how long has it been since we breezed for distance instead of short sprints. In everything the horse does we must consider the effect of gaps between particular types of activity!
Needless to say, there must be books written about this, or should be for our horses. There is a lot to consider. For here, I'll limit the discussion to fractures with the understanding that muscle detraining is much easier to fathom, and that ligaments and tendons present their own particularly physiology in this sense--e.g. how careful need we be to avoid a bow when we change up rider weight. Can that alarm bell blow loudly enough?
Continue next.
Training:
Fri. 3/11: Riderless spurts in near dark. Had to tack a shoe on the older and ran out of light.
Sat. 3/12: 10 min walk-trot under tack. Nob reports the horse as considerably less spooky than last fall.
"Detraining" is a term I've used to describe the physiological processes involved in "layoff", and this could be one day to six months. Unknown whether this is a term used in exercise physiologists, but surely they have some descriptive word describing what occurs within bone tissue, muscles, and also tendons and ligaments from one bout of exercise to the next, however long that may be. For me the word is detraining.
As everything with our horse we need view detraining in terms of injury prevention and performance. For performance the idea is straightforward--how are those measurable performance parameters, speed, stamina, strength, etc. affected by layoffs. This aspect will have to be covered when discussing performance. The question of the moment: how do lay offs affect injury prevention?
Take note that lay off refers to that time from the end of the last exercise to the next. It may also refer to periods within the exercise program between particular types of exercise--e.g. how long between speed work, although we're sending the horse out every day for slow gallops. Or, how long has it been since we breezed for distance instead of short sprints. In everything the horse does we must consider the effect of gaps between particular types of activity!
Needless to say, there must be books written about this, or should be for our horses. There is a lot to consider. For here, I'll limit the discussion to fractures with the understanding that muscle detraining is much easier to fathom, and that ligaments and tendons present their own particularly physiology in this sense--e.g. how careful need we be to avoid a bow when we change up rider weight. Can that alarm bell blow loudly enough?
Continue next.
Training:
Fri. 3/11: Riderless spurts in near dark. Had to tack a shoe on the older and ran out of light.
Sat. 3/12: 10 min walk-trot under tack. Nob reports the horse as considerably less spooky than last fall.
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