BEST FOR DOGS FITNESS

[blando 0]

lamping cant beet it and in the summer little walks like anyone normally does peak um up ready for season again end of summer but lamping reallly does it for my dogs

 

 

i was amazed at how much better condition my dog has stayed in as i have carried on lamping thought the summer and now the silage is cut i can continue to do so. last season my dog had al sorts of injuries just because she was unfit, shes still far to delicate mind!

[mistwalker 0]

My personal thoughts on it are this:

Your dogs personal fitness training regime should mimic the conditions you will work it under.

If you're dog is a saluki x (or similar) which you use on hares etc. (pre-ban of course), then I agree that long distance/ endurance type training (a few miles beside the bike at a pace that pushes the dog for a little while, but not too much, then a slower recovery pace, with maybe a short 50yd sprint near the end, then a gentle cool-down) is ideal. This gets the dogs cardio-respiratory system and muscles conditioned for a, possibly, lengthy course, followed by a wee walk til the next hare is flushed.

On the other hand, the ferreter with his whippet, or beddy whippet x would do better with a tennis raquet and ball, down the local park giving the wee pocket-rocket a few short, sharp 25 - 40 yd bursts, whilst getting some good retrieving training done too.

Now, before you start slating this theory, consider a 18" whippet doing the first training regime to help when ferreting or (even worse?) a 28" deerhound x doing the second to help course fen hares.

I know there are a few on here who have boxed a bit or done/ do martial arts, as I have. I also have over 12 years experience as a personal trainer and the old adage 'If you want to improve your boxing, you better get in the ring and box' is a true one.

[inan 841]

I would suggest you find somewhere to ride where the dog is off the lead.

 

I found out to my cost what happens when your happily riding along dog lead in hand and Peter rabbit decides to cross your path.

Yes and make sure the dog has emptied itself first,I had one stop dead for a dump pulled me off backwards,how I laughed!

[Guest Bunny Basher]

My personal thoughts on it are this:

Your dogs personal fitness training regime should mimic the conditions you will work it under.

If you're dog is a saluki x (or similar) which you use on hares etc. (pre-ban of course), then I agree that long distance/ endurance type training (a few miles beside the bike at a pace that pushes the dog for a little while, but not too much, then a slower recovery pace, with maybe a short 50yd sprint near the end, then a gentle cool-down) is ideal. This gets the dogs cardio-respiratory system and muscles conditioned for a, possibly, lengthy course, followed by a wee walk til the next hare is flushed.

On the other hand, the ferreter with his whippet, or beddy whippet x would do better with a tennis raquet and ball, down the local park giving the wee pocket-rocket a few short, sharp 25 - 40 yd bursts, whilst getting some good retrieving training done too.

Now, before you start slating this theory, consider a 18" whippet doing the first training regime to help when ferreting or (even worse?) a 28" deerhound x doing the second to help course fen hares.

I know there are a few on here who have boxed a bit or done/ do martial arts, as I have. I also have over 12 years experience as a personal trainer and the old adage 'If you want to improve your boxing, you better get in the ring and box' is a true one.

 

 

 

TOTALLY AGREE

[jonathan 0]

thats what i do with my two bedlington x take them out on my bmx but there of the lead and they just follow and some times they get a couple of bunnys on the way round where i liove i am none as boy on bike with dogs

[pistol pete 0]

My personal thoughts on it are this:

Your dogs personal fitness training regime should mimic the conditions you will work it under.

If you're dog is a saluki x (or similar) which you use on hares etc. (pre-ban of course), then I agree that long distance/ endurance type training (a few miles beside the bike at a pace that pushes the dog for a little while, but not too much, then a slower recovery pace, with maybe a short 50yd sprint near the end, then a gentle cool-down) is ideal. This gets the dogs cardio-respiratory system and muscles conditioned for a, possibly, lengthy course, followed by a wee walk til the next hare is flushed.

On the other hand, the ferreter with his whippet, or beddy whippet x would do better with a tennis raquet and ball, down the local park giving the wee pocket-rocket a few short, sharp 25 - 40 yd bursts, whilst getting some good retrieving training done too.

Now, before you start slating this theory, consider a 18" whippet doing the first training regime to help when ferreting or (even worse?) a 28" deerhound x doing the second to help course fen hares.

I know there are a few on here who have boxed a bit or done/ do martial arts, as I have. I also have over 12 years experience as a personal trainer and the old adage 'If you want to improve your boxing, you better get in the ring and box' is a true one.

just to add my thoughts which are pretty much the same if you have a dog that you run on everything that gets up in front of it then you should do a mixture of the above training that way it should be ready for anything

[MATTI 34]

A dog need's a bit of a rest during the year you can.t expect them to be 100% fit all year round year in year out, they are athlete's afterall football player's don't play all year round Track and Marathon runner's don't run all year. In between season's they don't need to be bursting out of their skin, also it give's game time to breed and mature, (there is nothing to boast about killing summer hare's or cub's) Half of how you keep your dog fit is how you feed them not just exercise them. :thumbs-up:

[fred dog 0]

a big f*****g brown hare

[tyson 1]

a big f*****g brown hare

 

3 or 4 big f*****g brown haqres