Be Your Own Equine Sports Coach

by Alison Lincoln

Overview

As riders, we often spend many hours training independently without regular access to high quality coaches, sport psychologists, biomechanic specialists or exercise physiologists. This can be the difference between performing well and performing to the best of your ability consistently and reliably over the long term. By bringing together the science of training, coaching and psychology, Be Your Own Equine Sports Coach explores the horse and rider as individual athletes and how, as a combination, you can meet the demands of competition by building highly personalized strategies and techniques that enable you to reach your potential in whatever discipline you choose and whatever your ambition. Key areas covered include: making sports psychology work for you; understanding human peak performance; the physiological and biomechanical demands of horse sport; developing sport specific training programmes; analysing your performance, and finally, strategic development and authentic leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908809971
Publisher:	Crowood Press, The
Publication date:	04/22/2022
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.64(w) x 9.37(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Alison Lincoln has a degree in Equine Sports Coaching and has taught on Sports Science and Equine Science courses at several different colleges across the UK. As a lifelong rider and competitor, she’s always been fascinated by human peak performance, equine exercise physiology and biomechanics and how a knowledge of these areas can help to get the best out of both horse and rider.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Part 1 The Rider as an Athlete

1 The Inner Game - Making Sports Psychology Work for You 9

2 Understanding Human Peak Performance 27

3 What Limits a Riders Performance? 39

4 Becoming an Independent Learner 51

Part 2 The Horse as an Athlete

5 Response to Exercise and Training 57

6 General Training Principles 67

7 Evaluating the Health and Fitness of Your Horse 79

8 What Limits a Horse's Performance? 85

9 The Biomechanical Demands of Horse Sports 93

10 Adapting Your Training and Competing in Extreme Weather 119

11 Feeding for Performance 123

Part 3 Building a System for Long-Term Success

12 Training and Conditioning Programmes 129

13 Analysing Your Performance 141

14 Authentic Leadership 151

Bibliography 155

Index 159

Editorial Reviews

‘This book provides the reader with a complete picture of the requirements for achieving success in equestrian sport. The successful rider will not only be a great competitor on the day but will have an understanding of all the components that come into play in terms of training, conditioning and developing the equine athlete, who is their partner. This well researched book will stimulate the reader to analyse and understand what elements are involved in achieving the best out of their equine partner. I would recommend this book to any rider, whether amateur or professional, young or mature, who has aspirations to compete at the top level of equestrian sport.’ - Christopher Bartle FBHS, High Performance Coach - British Eventing Team -

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