June is the gateway to summer (and my birthday month!), so what better way to kick off the summer than with a challenging month of fitness! My Jump into June fitness challenge is ready for you to start on Monday, June 4th and will help you work up a sweat every week! This challenge involves only 7 moves and the only equipment you need is a set of dumbbells, hand weights, soup cans, or whatever else you want to use for a little bit of resistance. You can do these workouts any

When you are traveling either for work or vacation do you find it difficult to stick to your workouts? If you are like me, you probably have a typical routine of where you workout and what time of day you workout, and you enjoy sticking to that routine. Going away for a few days or a few weeks throws us out of our typical routine, and unless you learn to be flexible, before you know it your vacation is over and you completed zero workouts! Instead of throwing out any progres

THE EQUESTRIAN ATHLETE - PART 5 Lesson 5: Basic Fitness Program Design As you have progressed through this equestrian series, you have started to change your mindset that you are an athlete. It is now time to look at how to design a basic fitness program that will allow you to train for optimal performance. Like most sports we look at equestrian sports as having seasons. We can break down our yearly calendar into phases based on these seasons: off-season, pre-season, in-se