over training syndrome

Friday, May 13, 2011

over training syndrome

I recently did a conditioning seminar with my dogs with Liz McGuire...unlike many of the agility handling seminars I have attended in the past, this seminar focused on our evaluating our dogs physically and learning exercises to help condition and strengthen them!

It was awesome and gave me some great ideas and exercises to incorporate into my training routine with my own dogs and also with my class...

So on Tuesday night instead of doing my regular agility training class, we took a field trip - literally!!! I packed up my dogs, two cones, an exercise ball and we all went to a huge field a couple of blocks from my house. There we set up a "course" using the 2 cones, 2 exercise balls, 6 weave poles, and a couple of huge garbage cans...the dogs had a BLAST!

I will be incorporating this kind of "course work" in my training on a regular basis and I will get video to share...