November 11, 2011

2012 Calendar

What my conditioning calendar will "sort of" look like for 2012.  I just note a ballpark idea of what I want to accomplish in a given week.  Rain, snow, work, life disasters all will alter the finished product, a ride day may shift left or right depending on a holiday or an actual competition.  This is my been ridden, some fitness base on horse starter upper.  It has Wednesdays and Thursdays open for the most part as I do not see the light of day either day.   I try not to get too worked up over keeping the schedule but use it as a rather loose guideline for shooting towards a 25-30 mile completion.   I'm not inclined to add much cantering into my program as I haven't had a horse that I felt was really ready mentally  to go that speed, and don't foresee my using the canter all that much.  Just want to know that the horse has the gears working,  and will reasonably rate the speed I do wish to go.  My one longer ride is always on the weekend, I try to have a hill session once a week, and try to have a trotting session once a week.  Outside of that, it is just  adjust the sails as I go.  ~ E.G.



2012 Weekly Calendar :  All rides start with a walking warm up and end with a walking cool down. Pulse after 10 minutes of work cessation should be 60 beats per minute or less.  If not, you are too advanced, back your program up to a less strenuous level.  LSD= walk, trot, walk, trot building the trotting time up gradually.  Hillwork= a one hour session on a moderate grade hill, the longest gradual climb you have available or series of short, steep hills.  Beginning phase walking the hills, moderate phase builds in some uphill trotting.   Lunging= energetic ground work in a circle, laterally, backing up, trotting over poles, flexing and stretching.


Month
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
LSD 1 hour
Walk 50 trot 10
2
30 minute lunging session
3
LSD 1 hour
Walk 50 trot 10
4

5

6
LSD 1 hour
Walk 45 trot 15
7 Hill: Select the hill you will train on.
Walk  for 10 minutes.

8
LSD 1 hour
Walk 45 trot 15
9 30 minute lunging session

10
LSD 1 hour
Walk 35  trot 25
11

12

13

7 Hill: Walk  it for 15 minutes.

15
LSD 1 hour
Walk25  trot 35
16 30 minute lunging session


17
LSD 1 hour
Walk25  trot 35
18

19

20 LSD 1 hour
Walk 15  trot 45

7 Hill: Walk up it for 20 minutes.

22
LSD 1 hour
Walk 15  trot 45
23
30 minute lunging session

24 Hill: Walk  it for 25 minutes.

25

26

27
LSD 1 hour
Warm up, trot 4-5 miles, cool down. 
7

29

30
LSD 1 hour
Warm up, trot 4-5 miles, cool down. 
31 Hill: Walk  it for 30 minutes.

1
2

3
LSD 1 hour
Warm up, trot 4-5 miles, cool down. 
4 LSD 1 hour
Warm up, trot 4-5 miles, cool down
7 LSD
1 hour 15 min

6
30 minute lunging session

7 Hill: Walk  it for 35 minutes.


8

9

10
LSD
1 hour 15 min

11


12
Hill: Walk  it for 35 minutes.


13
30 minute lunging session

14
Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.

15

16

17 LSD
1 hour  20 min


18

19 Hill: Walk  it for 45 minutes.

20
30 minute lunging session

21
Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.

22

23

24 LSD
1 hour 35 min


25


26  Hills:
 1 hour


27
30 minute lunging session

28
Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.


29

1


2 LSD
1 hour 45 min
3
LSD
1 hour


4 Hills:
 1 hour, gradually add trotting into your hillwork.  Add one repetiion of trotting every week until you trot most of the uphill portion with downhill breaks of walking.


5
30 minute lunging session

6
Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.

7

8

9 LSD
2 hour


10
LSD
1 hour

11 Hills:
 1 hour

12
30 minute lunging session

13 Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.


14

15


16
LSD
2 hours 15 min
17
LSD 1 hour
18 Hills:
 1 hour



19
30 minute lunging session

20 Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.


21

22


23
LSD
1 hour  sustained trotting.
24  LSD 2 hour 30 min

25
30 minute lunging session

26
Hillwork: one hour

27 Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.


28

29

30 Warm up, trot out for an hour, cool down.


31 LSD 3 hours
(15 miles)

1
30 minute lunging session

2 Hillwork: one hour


3

4

5

6

7

8
30 minute lunging session

9 Hillwork: one hour


10

11

12

13

14 LSD
10 miles, break, 10 miles: 20 total miles

15. 30 minute lunging session

16  30 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.


17 Hillwork: one hour

18

19

20 1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

21 15 miles pick up the pace just a little.


22 Intervals
15 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.

23
HILLS
1 hour

24
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

25

26

27 TRAVEL
Pre-ride first or last five miles of the trail.
28 competition
25 mile LD

29 Intervals 20 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.

30 30 minute lunging session

1
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

2

3

4
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

5
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

6
Intervals 30 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.

7 30 minute lunging session


8
HILLS
1 hour

9

10

11
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

12 15 miles LSD

13 Intervals  35 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.


14
30 minute lunging session
15
HILLS
1 hour

16

17

18
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

19 1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)


20 Intervals  40 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.


21
30 minute lunging session
22
HILLS
1 hour

23

24

25
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

26 15 miles LSD

27 Intervals  45 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.


28 30 minute lunging session

29
HILLS
1 hour

30

31

1
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

2
15 miles LSD
3 Intervals 45 minutes of warm up, trot, canter.


4 30 minute lunging session

5
Hills 1 hour

6

7

8
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

9
15 miles LSD
10
15 miles LSD

11
30 minute lunging session

12
Hills 1 hour

13

14

15 1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)



16 1 hour trotting

17 Intervals
1 hour of warm up, walk, trot, and cantering intervals.
18
30 minute lunging session

19
Hills 1 hour

20

21

22
1 hour sustained trotting
(6 miles)

23
1 hour trotting
24
15 miles LSD

25
30 minute lunging session

26
1 hour trotting
27

28

29
Hills 1 hour

30
1 hour trotting
1
1 hour of warm up, walk, trot, and cantering intervals.
2
30 minute lunging session

3
1 hour trotting
4

5

6
Hills 1 hour

7
1 hour trotting
8
15 miles LSD

9
30 minute lunging session

10
1 hour trotting
11

12

13
Hills 1 hour

14
1 hour trotting
15
1 hour of warm up, walk, trot, and cantering intervals.
16
30 minute lunging session

17
1 hour trotting
18

19

20
Hills 1 hour

21
1 hour trotting
22
15 miles LSD

23
30 minute lunging session

24
1 hour trotting
25

26

27
Hills 1 hour

28
1 hour trotting
29
1 hour of warm up, walk, trot, and cantering intervals.
30
30 minute lunging session

31

1

2

3
Hills 1 hour

4
1 hour trotting
5
1 hour trotting
6
30 minute lunging session

7
1 hour trotting
8

9

10
Hills 1 hour

11
1 hour trotting
12
15 miles LSD

13
30 minute lunging session

14
1 hour trotting
15

16

17
Hills 1 hour

18
1 hour trotting
19
1 hour trotting
20
30 minute lunging session

21
1 hour trotting
22

23

24
Hills 1 hour

25
1 hour trotting
26
15 miles LSD

27
30 minute lunging session

28
1 hour trotting
29

30

31
Hills 1 hour

1
1 hour trotting
2
1 hour trotting
3
30 minute lunging session

4
1 hour trotting
5

6

7
Hills 1 hour

8
1 hour trotting
9
15 miles LSD

10
30 minute lunging session

11
1 hour trotting
12

13

14
Hills 1 hour

15
1 hour trotting
16
1 hour trotting
17
30 minute lunging session

18
1 hour trotting
19

20

21
Hills 1 hour

22
1 hour trotting
23
15 miles LSD

24
30 minute lunging session

25
1 hour trotting
26

27

28
Hills 1 hour

29
1 hour trotting
30
1 hour trotting
1
30 minute lunging session

2
1 hour trotting
3

4

5
Hills 1 hour

6

7
15 miles LSD

8
30 minute lunging session

9
1 hour trotting
10

11

12
Hills 1 hour

13

14
1 hour trotting
15
30 minute lunging session

16
1 hour trotting
17

18

19
Hills 1 hour

20

21
15 miles LSD

22
30 minute lunging session

23
1 hour trotting
24

25

26
Hills 1 hour

27

28

29
30 minute lunging session

30
1 hour trotting
31

1

2
Hills 1 hour

3

4
15 miles LSD

5
30 minute lunging session

6
1 hour trotting
7

8

9 Hills 1 hour


10

11
15 miles LSD

12
30 minute lunging session

13
1 hour trotting
14

15

16
Hills 1 hour

17

18
15 miles LSD

19
30 minute lunging session

20

21

22

23
Hills 1 hour

24

25
15 miles LSD

26

27

28

29

30
Hills 1 hour

1

2
1 hour trotting
3

4 1 hour trotting

5

6

7
Hills 1 hour

8

9
15 miles LSD

10

11
1 hour trotting
12

13

14
1 hour trotting
15

16
1 hour trotting
17

18
1 hour trotting
19

20

21
Hills 1 hour

22

23
15 miles LSD

24

25
1 hour trotting
26

27

28
1 hour trotting
29

30
1 hour trotting
31

1
1 hour trotting
2

3

4
Hills 1 hour

5



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