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“I need more strength for riding.”
“I get tired or unstable.”
“My legs shorten or grip.”
“I want strength that actually helps in the saddle.”
“I want to ride well for years to come.”

Rider strength is not about generic workouts. It is about building the kind of support, control, and resilience your body needs so riding feels more organised and less effortful.

This often connects to

glute strength · lower body support · strength that transfers to riding · stamina · muscle and bone health · rider longevity · energy

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Strength & FitnessSeat & HipsBalance & Core

Why Riders Need Strong Glutes (And Why Weak Glutes Change Everything In The Saddle)

There’s a certain feeling riders are always trying to create.

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Balance & CorePosture & AlignmentStrength & FitnessSeat & Hips

Why Your Hands Aren’t Steady (And Why It’s Not About Your Hands)

There’s a moment most riders notice. Your hands don’t feel as steady as you’d like.

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Seat & HipsBalance & CoreStrength & Fitness

Why You Bounce in Sitting Trot (And What Your Body Is Really Trying to Tell You)

There’s a moment every rider knows. You ask for sitting trot… and instead of feeling connected, you feel like you’re being gently — or sometimes not so gently — bounced out of the

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Posture & AlignmentBalance & CoreStrength & Fitness

Stronger in the Saddle: How Building Muscle Supports Your Riding Posture

There’s a moment in riding — whether in a collected canter or just a quiet halt — where everything feels still, balanced, and aligned.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CoreMindset & Confidence

How to Get Started with Strength Training (Even If You're a Total Beginner)

Let’s be honest — starting strength training can feel intimidating.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CoreDressage BasicsSeat & Hips

Why Strength Training Is the Missing Piece for Dressage Riders Over 40

If you’re a dressage rider over 40, chances are you’ve been told to stretch more, do more core work, or simply “ride more” to get stronger in the saddle.

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Seat & HipsBalance & CoreStrength & Fitness

Why Your Legs Slide Forward in the Saddle & How to Fix It for a Balanced Seat

Learn why your legs slide forward in the saddle and how to fix it so you have a more balanced and stable seat in the saddle.

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Seat & HipsStrength & FitnessBalance & Core

Struggling to Swing Your Leg Over When Mounting? Here’s How to Fix It!

Learn what's limiting you and how to fix so that mounting your horse becomes easier and much smoother every time you ride.

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Strength & FitnessDressage Basics

Riding Through Perimenopause: How to Stay Strong, Energized, and Balanced in the Saddle

Perimenopause affecting your riding? Support your body, protect your seat, and keep progressing in the saddle through your 40s and beyond.

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Seat & HipsBalance & CorePosture & AlignmentStrength & Fitness

Learn about your deep six and why they matter for dressage

Discover your deep six muscles and why they are important to understand as riders.

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21 Day Movement Challenge

Struggling to get some good habits happening OFF the horse?

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CoreSeat & HipsPosture & Alignment

Strength Building For Equestrians

Learn all about strength building for equestrians. Get workout ideas and discover the best sort of training to do as a rider.

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Staying Riding Fit With An Injured Ankle

Staying riding fit with an injured ankle with these 13 exercises. Including video demonstrating each exercise to help you stay active.

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Strength Training for Improved Energy: The Mitochondria Connection

Strength training and how it can improve your energy for riding. Learn how to get started and the role your mitochondria play in your energy.

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The Underestimated Power Of Strength Training For Riders

The Underestimated Power Of Strength Training For Riders. Its impact it has on your position. Not just performance, but longevity too.

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Is Running Good For Dressage Riders?

Is running good for dressage riders and learn what role it could play on your position in the saddle. Discover exercises to improve riding.

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Understanding Your Fascia And Its Role In The Saddle

Discover the role your fascia plays in the saddle. Learn what it is and ways you can improve it to help your riding.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CoreSeat & Hips

Glute Strengthening Exercises For Dressage Riders

Here are a selection of glute strengthening exercises for dressage riders to help strengthening and improve your seat while riding.

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Strength Training For Dressage

Learn why strength training is so important as we age and why we must pay attention to deliberately incorporating it into our lives.

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13 Ways To Build Stronger Bones And Prevent Injury From Falls

The great thing about dressage and most riding is that we can generally speaking ride in our older years.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & Core

7 Exercises To Improve Lower Body Strength And Balance

Improve your strength for riding with these 7 key lower body dressage exercises for riders. Create better posture and balance for dressage .

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Strength & FitnessPosture & AlignmentBalance & CoreSeat & Hips

6 Dressage Exercises To Help Improve Your Riding Posture

Here are my top 6 dressage exercises that you can do at home to help improve your position and posture in the saddle. Including step by step video to follow

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Strength & Fitness

How To Create Stable And Quiet Legs For Dressage

In this article I go into detail about how you can make your legs for dressage more quiet and stable. Understand why its important and how to achieve.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & Core

How Much Exercise Should I Be Doing Around My Riding?

Discover if horse riding is exercise, how many calories you burn and how you can get fitter for horse riding with these workouts.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CorePosture & Alignment

Equestrian Workouts To Improve Your Riding

Improve your horse riding fitness, no matter what equestrain discipline you do. Here are specific equestrian workouts & stretches.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CorePosture & AlignmentSeat & Hips

Pilates For Equestrian Athletes And How It Can Improve Your Dressage Posture

Why pilates for equestrian athletes can improve your core and overall stability in the saddle. A must for dressage riders. Including exercises you can try.

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Strength & FitnessSeat & HipsBalance & Core

Mounting Exercises To Help Improve Getting On The Horse

Flexibility is crucial to making mounting your horse much easier.

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Seat & HipsStrength & Fitness

Soothing Stretches To Help Improve Sciatica In Riders

Sciatica can be common in horse riders. This article will show you stretches to reduce your sciatica pain for good.

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Strength & Fitness

Dressage Rider Leg Strength - 6 Exercises To Help You Improve

Work on your dressage rider leg strength for better communication with your horse. Breakdown of exercises and a video to guide you through.

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Posture & AlignmentStrength & Fitness

Improve Your Rider Shoulder Stability

As a rider the key is creating an illusion of stillness and creating soft hands is part of this picture.

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I Need To Improve My Cardio

Learn how you can improve your overall cardio fitness for riding and whats the best approach to take.

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Improving Reaction Time In Dressage Riders

Learn why improving reaction time in dressage riders can help create a more balanced a stable rider in the saddle. Including what to do and how to improve.

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Seat & HipsStrength & Fitness

Yoga For Dressage Riders - Routine To Improve Your Mobility Before You Ride

Yoga is a really powerful tool to help you become more supple in the saddle.

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Seat & HipsStrength & Fitness

Stretches To Help With Hip Mobility In Dressage Riders

Hip mobility in dressage is a crucial element to creating a deep seat. Here are some great mobility routines you can start today.

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Seat & HipsStrength & Fitness

How To Stretch Your Piriformis & Why It’s Important For Dressage Riders

Learn how to stretch piriformis, where it is and why it is an important area for dressage riders to keep healthy. With a step by step guide to stretching.

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Seat & HipsStrength & Fitness

Improve Hip Mobility With These 6 Stretches

Here are six hip stretches for horse riders with a focus on dressage. Improve your mobility and suppleness so you can feel morse stable in the saddle.

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Balance & CoreStrength & Fitness

7 Simple Ways To Improve Your Core Strength For Dressage Riders

Learn how to improve core strength for horse riding, especially for dressage. Article includes videos with free core exercises to try.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CoreDressage BasicsPosture & Alignment

What is Rider Biomechanics?

What is Rider Biomechanics? Dressage riders require a strength and fitness that is subtle to the unknown eye. What on earth is biomechanics and what does it have to do with dressage?

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Posture & AlignmentStrength & FitnessDressage BasicsSeat & Hips

Dressage Position – What Is Alignment And Why Is It Important

Dressage position – what is alignment and why is it important to understand as dressage riders. Get the exercises to improve yours today

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Strength & FitnessSeat & HipsDressage BasicsPosture & Alignment

Exercises To Keep Your Heels Down

Ever since being a little girl bouncing around on my welsh pony "Smokey" at pony club, the words heels down have been drummed into my ears as I am sure you can relate.

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Strength & Fitness

What Sort Of Fitness Training Is Best For Dressage Riders

As dressage riders, focusing on your fitness off the horse is often the missing ingredient to improve how you perform as a team.

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Strength & Fitness

Is Strength Training Beneficial For My Riding Fitness?

It’s common for dressage riders to be unsure of how to improve their fitness to enhance their riding.

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Strength & FitnessPosture & Alignment

5 Exercises To Test And Improve Your Rider Symmetry

5 exercises to test and improve your rider symmetry and overall posture in the saddle. Discover simple ways to improve position today.

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Strength & FitnessBalance & CorePosture & AlignmentSeat & Hips

How Mobility And Yoga Can Help Your Riding

When you’re in your twenties, it seems you can go a 110 percent at the gym, a charity run, or a boot camp with ease.

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Balance & CoreStrength & FitnessSeat & Hips

Using A Balance Ball To Improve Your Seat In Dressage

Establishing balanced seat bones and a strong core is vital for dressage riders to move freely with their horse.

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Dressage Rider Exercises For Improved Fitness

Here are some great dressage rider exercises to help improve overall rider fitness. By including them you will help improve stamina and endurance.

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Balance & CoreStrength & FitnessPosture & Alignment

5 Swissball Moves To Improve Your Riding Posture

When we ride in a good position the body has an illusion of stillness.

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Strength & Fitness

Joint Pain In Dressage Riders

As riders understanding how your body works in the saddle is key to helping prevent any joint pain as a dressage rider in the future.

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Strength & Fitness

How To Be A Fitter Healthier More Focused Rider

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Strength & FitnessPosture & Alignment

Resistance Band Exercises For Dressage Riders

These 12 resistance band exercises for Dressage riders are easily done at home. Designed to improve your posture and position in the saddle.

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Seat & HipsStrength & FitnessPosture & Alignment

The Best Stretches For Dressage Riders (In Less Than 5 Minutes)

Here is a selection of the best stretches for dressage riders to help loosen them up before a ride. Do this as a routine and notice the change.

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Strength & FitnessPosture & Alignment

Upper Body Exercises For Dressage Riders

Here are a selection of upper body exercises for dressage riders to help improve their riding posture and position in the saddle. Full video and guidelines

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Posture & AlignmentBalance & CoreStrength & FitnessSeat & Hips

5 Yoga Poses To Improve Your Dressage

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Balance & CoreStrength & FitnessPosture & Alignment

Why Planks Are Great For Dressage Rider Posture (With 6 Different Variations To Try)

Why Planks Are Great For Dressage Rider Posture With 6 Different Variations To Try

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Balance & CoreStrength & Fitness

Strength Exercises For Horse Riders - Improve With These 6 Core Exercises

Core strength exercises for horse riders to help improve your posture and stability in the saddle. Learn why its important and get the exercises that work.

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Strength & Fitness

Dressage Strength - Improve Your Posture + Balance In the Saddle

Improve your dressage strength and stamina in the saddle with these great exercises. Fine tune your symmetry and evenness to help you feel more balanced.

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