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The challenges of jumping horses through the training

The jumping sport represents a significant part of the equestrian industry that is largely focused on the realization of economic gain. In order to realise desired competition results, horses need to be adequately trained. Generally, training can be defined as ‘a complex process of different activities with a planned and oriented goal of making progress in achieving fitness and oriented movements during work'. Through training, horses need to improve or maintain maximum performance, preparing the horse for competition, delay onset of fatigue, improve skills or work capacity, minimize the incidence of injuries or metabolic disorders, and maintain willingness and enthusiasm for exercise. Furthermore, warming-up represents the unavoidable preparatory step of each training session aiming to prepare the body for the training by increasing the heart rate, enhancing blood supply to tissues, and increasing the flexibility of joints, ligaments, and tendons. Also, horses' trainers and handlers should nurture natural curiosity enabling horses to suppress potential fear of new stimuli and lift the performances in training and breeding. Finally, an adequately trained and bred horse is the one with good results in equestrian sports.

horse ; jumping training ; warm-up

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