BENEFITS OF A PROPER LUNGE SESSION:
🌼Builds fitness and muscle. Working a horse in a circle at walk, trot, and canter improves cardiovascular endurance and strengthens hindquarters and topline muscles.
🌼Improves balance and coordination. Lunging encourages the horse to balance itself on the circle, developing coordination especially in young or green horses still learning to carry weight. In classical dressage training, this helps develop both longitudinal (fore-aft) and lateral (side-to-side) balance.
🌼Enhances suppleness and flexibility. Repeated transitions and changes of bend on the lunge help the horse stretch muscles and become more supple.
🌼Mental stimulation and focus. Lunging keeps high-energy horses mentally engaged. Introducing varied exercises (like trot–canter transitions or ground poles) prevents boredom. It also gives the horse a chance to focus on the handler’s cues rather than distractions. As one coach observes, a good lunging session “sharpens [the handler’s] ability to interpret equine cues” and helps the horse remain attentive to the handler’s body language.
🌼Assessment of soundness and behavior. Lunging lets you observe the horse’s natural gaits and identify any lameness or stiffness. It also teaches basic obedience (e.g. stop, walk on) on the ground. Trainers often mention that lunging gives the horse clear experience yielding to pressure; for example, understanding that turning or stopping on the lunge comes from moving the shoulders or hindquarters away from the handler’s signals.
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BE CAREFUL WHO YOU “HIGH-HAT” OR LOOK DOWN UPON IN THIS INDUSTRY…
The horse industry has a funny way of humbling people real fast.
The person you ignore today… The kid you laugh at… The beginner you talk down to… The small trainer trying to build something… The person asking questions… The one struggling but still showing up every single day… The person in the old beat up rig...
Might be the very person everyone will be looking up to a few years from now.
Too many people in this industry judge someone based off where they currently are instead of paying attention to where they’re headed. They judge by the appearance and current social standings.
They forget something important…
Every great competitor, trainer, horseman, breeder, farrier, vet, business owner, and mentor was once inexperienced too.
Nobody starts at the top.
Some people had help. Some had money. Some had connections.
But the ones who had nothing but a dream, grit, and the determination to keep learning when everybody around them doubted them... they're the ones who everyone else will be looking to to see how they made it.
The people who usually make it the furthest are not always the loudest, richest, or most naturally talented…
It’s often the people who stayed humble enough to learn… Hungry enough to improve… And disciplined enough to keep showing up after failure, embarrassment, criticism, haters, and setbacks.
Never forget… Confidence and arrogance are far from the same thing.
There’s a big difference between someone believing in themselves and someone believing they’re better than everybody else.
One builds people. The other tears people down.
This industry already has enough gatekeeping, ego, favoritism, and people trying to make others feel small.
What it needs more of is people willing to encourage, teach, support, and help raise the standard together.
So be very careful...
The same people you look down on today may become the people you one day need, respect, work for, buy from, learn from, or stand beside tomorrow.
Stay humble. Stay teachable. And never underestimate somebody that’s putting in all the work behind the scenes.
Dream BIG… NEVER QUIT!
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