Equine Wellness Club

10/12/2025

Flickin’ lines and hill climbs
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I still have some scattered bodywork availability for this year, please never be shy to reach out for a last minute appointment and even better, let’s book your appointments in advance for next year when you’re ready 👐🏼

Text only 0415 707 652

08/12/2025

Playing the role of sleepy pony ✨Annie✨. She always understands the assignment and she is ALWAYS the main character 🤝🏼 Equine Exercise Physiology 101

• Horses switch between aerobic (oxygen-based) and anaerobic (explosive) energy depending on the work.
• Aerobic metabolism builds stability, posture, and long-term soundness.
• Anaerobic metabolism gives speed + power but increases fatigue and injury risk when overused.
• Many horses hit anaerobic stress too early because their stabilisers and posture systems aren’t trained yet.
• Building aerobic capacity first is one of the strongest injury-prevention tools we have.
• Smart conditioning + supportive therapies = better circulation, recovery, and movement quality.

References ..
Snow & Valberg (1994) Equine muscle anatomy and adaptations to exercise. Equine Veterinary Journal.
Hodgson et al. (1994) Aerobic vs anaerobic thresholds in the horse. Equine Veterinary Journal.

07/12/2025

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01/12/2025

Blood Doping and Splenic Contraction 🩸💉🤝👩‍🔬

What the research highlighted:
• Sympathetic activation triggers the spleen to contract
• This rapidly increases circulating red blood cells
• The mechanism originally evolved as a survival response

Reference:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/pdf/download/eid/1-s2.0-S0737080683800239/first-page-pdf

Hanzawa, K., Kubo, K., Kai, M., Hiraga, A. & Watanabe, S. (1998). Effects of splenic erythrocytes and blood lactate levels in Thoroughbred horses during exercise.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Hanzawa+splenic+erythrocytes+horses

27/11/2025

Clever horses with their clever bodies… love it when they breathe

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Equine Locomotion-Respiratory coupling
• Horses use a 1:1 stride-breath ratio at the canter and gallop
• Breathing becomes mechanically linked to ribcage movement
• Posture, gait changes, tension and terrain influence ventilation efficiency

References:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1158850/

Lindinger, L. A., Kingston, J. K., & Anderson, J. E. (2004). Locomotor–respiratory coupling in horses.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Lindinger+locomotor+respiratory+coupling+horses

23/11/2025

15/11/2025

We love sleepovers at , learning from and clinics organised by Whole Horse with the coolest and most clever group of horse people imaginable 👯‍♀️🖤👩🏼‍🎓

10/11/2025

I have some scattered bodywork availability left for this year… if you’d like to jump onto one of my regional or local routes for 2025, get in touch asap

0415 707 652 (text preferred)
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27/10/2025

Long lining and cave climbing

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22/10/2025

The weather was wild… but she had a stick, a spare 20 minutes and a very clever orange pony 🧡