"Sail away from the safe harbor."

Stephanie | dressage rider | accountability coach

[brygarth]

What a poser ~

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[the-preppy-eq]

I’m backkk!

I tried horse twitter for a while and that was not my thing. So I’m back to Tumblr.

Updates on me:

- I moved my horse to a better barn and switch to dressage and I am LOVING it!!!

- I started to take my health more seriously, joined an accountability group and now help to run it! I finished a 21 day program and I am now doing a six week program that I am more that a quarter of the way done with.

- I am looking into new barns to take jump lessons since my barn is strictly dressage. Hoping to find something close to keep up with jumping even if I don’t jump my horse anymore. Although I may start to jump her again.

[fiercefitandfab]

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[scarlettjane22]

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[fiercefitandfab]

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[fiercefitandfab]

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[col-de-rousset]

meter schooling 

Palgrave 2015

[triple-stitch]

©Triple Stitch Photography

[motivationsforlife]

Glowing City by Trent Szmolnik

[the-preppy-eq]

I can actually see a difference in my body with the little bit of working out that I’ve been doing and honestly I couldn’t be happier or more motivated. I’m gonna kick ass this show season 😈

[the-preppy-eq]

Week 2

So I already recapped my Monday lesson. Wednesday’s training ride was good apparently. We definitely need to work on stamina though. I didn’t get to ride again until Saturday and we had some sass and anticipation. We worked through it and ended with a couple of nice canter transitions and cantered over a couple of poles. Normally we don’t have a problem finding our distances to poles but the mare was just too amped up at times to listen to me but we figured it out.

I was able to work up my planks to 66 seconds at a time. Goal is to hit 75 seconds at the end of this week. Also upping my non riding day steps to 5.5k instead of 5k a day. On days that I ride I’m hitting 10k super easy. I’m gonna start adding in some arms and legs strength training on and off the horse. I really need to work on my foot facing forward more. Stupid ass instructor that I originally had screwed me over because I used to naturally put my foot forward and she told me that was wrong and made me keep it at a 45 degree angle with hyperflexed ankles to the point of my lower leg being ineffective.

I’ve lost a little bit of weight this week. Goal is to get to 140 or lower by my birthday and ultimately get down to 125ish by June 1st.

[the-preppy-eq]

Week 1

I guess going forward my weeks will be Sunday-Saturday. But here is a recap of the last week and a half.

I gave her the day off on Sunday because it was cold and I still wasn’t feeling 100%. Monday was my lesson day and boy was my mare feeling it. It was quite cold out and my horse had lots of energy and a short temper with me. I lost track of how many times she bucked. We trotted and canter some poles in a mini course. We had some issues with straightness and turning at some points while cantering.

She got today off because I already had plans. Tomorrow is her training ride. I’m not sure if it will be a jumping or dressage one. I’ll ride on Thursday and either my trainer or I will ride on Friday and then I have a lesson on Saturday.

I started my own fitness journey today. My food intake wasn’t great but it was better than it has been. I did a couple minutes of yoga in my scorching hot room, walked for 20 minutes, did some hip opening stretches, and did a plank three times until failure which was a minute all together because my room is so hot lol I have my window open to cool it down. Our heating system is a little screwed up right now

Goals: get 5k+ steps a day on days when I don’t ride, do yoga and stretching everyday, focus on core, and track my food intake. Eventually I want to start upping my cardio.

I want to lose the almost 10lbs I’ve gained over the four weeks. In this heat I think it will only take a week before I sweat it off 😓

[the-sciencey-thirty-something]

[the-preppy-eq]

So my vet doesn’t really “know” my horse because she has never needed anything beyond vaccines and her teeth done. He did her PPE when she was a hot mess without any real training. Well my trainer was riding her while the vet was out to see another horse and he asked who that horse was because he didn’t recognize her under saddle because she’s come so far. That’s pretty damn cool.

[the-preppy-eq]

This is a first... my grandfather is actually mad at one of my cousins... the cousins who in my grandparents eyes could never do any wrong.

[trackingup]

Bad riding looks like bad riding. But good riding looks like no riding.

http://www.chronofhorse.com/article/push-it (via trackingup)

[the-preppy-eq]

There is absolutely no reason for me to be at work today. I could have done EVERYTHING from home because what I needed here at work was never given to me and that person apparently isn’t coming in today...

[audreyslegacy]