weekly riding schedule

[extrastars]

what is your week to week riding schedule? i find these very interesting so i thought id share mine as well. sometimes the days change around a bit but this is generally how it goes-
monday- flat school, walk trot canter, do some trot poles if they are already set up, and maybe some cavaletti. if i have an upcoming show i’ll school some parts of my dressage test as well.
tuesday- off day
wednesday- conditioning. our barn has a pasture we can ride in if the footing is good. if i cant ride in the field, i will probably do bareback in the ring to give my horse a mental break
thursday- jump lesson
friday- flat school, same as monday
saturday & sunday are both off days. i wish i could ride more but that just doesn’t fit in my schedule.

when/ how do you ride your horse every week? im very curious!

[OTTBaddiction]

This is my schedule for my 8yo OTTB during the competition season. I incorporate a fair bit of hacking as I have really good access to quiet roads and trails.

Monday: Day Off
Tuesday: Light Dressage/Hacking
Wednesday: Fitness (Gallops/Distance etc)
Thursday: Dressage
Friday: Jump School/Hacking
Saturday: Dressage/Competition
Sunday: Competition/Fitness

[jonem004]

My schedule in the spring/summer/show season-
Flat every single day, except days I jump. Work or weather will mandate a day off at least once a week, so I don’t worry about scheduling it in. I really try not to have more than one day off in a row.

Gymnastic jumping once a week-ish as part of fitting, unless we’re doing something else hard, like this weeks intro to counter canter. At least once a week we do cavelitti work as well.

Course practice if prepping for a show, but little mare seems to benefit more from flat work at this point. We probably only jump over 3ft at shows. I used to work on the AA H/J circuit and picked up the idea there that less is more jumping. Once the horse knows it’s job, no reason to pound on those legs. Just fine tune the ride between efforts.

Winter riding schedule last year- Ride just enough that they don’t jump out of the paddock. This winter I’m hoping to hunt, but plans<horses.

[FitToBeTied]

It varies by time of year. It varies by horse. It varies by ground conditions. etc. I ride five or six days a week. I have four horses to ride.

[Equisis]

Varies based on the horse, time of year, and whether they are competing that weekend/just competed. Average schedule:

Monday- off
Tuesday- 30min trot
Weds- flat
Thurs- SJ school
Fri- flat or XC school
Sat- flat or 30 trot
Sun- gallop

Young horses have a more relaxed schedule, trotting 3 or 4x per week with one jump school and one or two flat schools. They might get an extra day off.

On a competition week, depending on what day the competition begins, they might trot Monday so they can flat/jump/flat before they compete. After competition, they might have Monday off, Tuesday hack, Wednesday trot, then back to “real” work on Thursday.

[EventerAJ]

Sunday off.
Monday hack at least 30min.
Tuesday flat.
Wednesday flat.
Thursday jump.
Friday trot.
Saturday gallop.

This has been my weekly riding schedule for 18 years, for training through advanced. Each week is a “progression” with increasing work (aside from the trot day). My principles: always have a hack after a day off. Never jump or gallop after a day off. Try not to jump or gallop on back-to-back days (in case of minor strain/injury). Obviously this is allowed for competitions, but I “save” them for that. Baby horses may jump twice a week, and certain horses may benefit from two days of jumping for educational purposes. But in general, my horses jump once a week. Low level horses will skip the gallop day and have an extra day off, or XC school.

[evilc123]

Monday - Off
Tuesday - flat
Wednesday - flat w/ poles or cavaletti
Thursday - flat/trot sets, hill work (on competition week)
Friday - dressage lesson
Saturday - competition/trot sets, hill work (if not competing)
Sunday - competition/jump lesson (if not competing)

ETA: this is my horse’s schedule; the Wed and Thurs rides are done by my trainer

[RainWeasley]

This is something I need to figure out, now that I can get out 4 or 5 times a week instead of like two. Right now I kind of just go by what we ended up working on the last day I went out so we don’t do the same thing two sessions in a row. But I need to get a schedule down with maybe a day hacking, a day doing maybe fitness work in the field, a day jumping and a day flat/dressage, and if we have a 5th day doing whatever we feel like that day.

[woodhillsmanhattan]

I am in graduate school and my horse is well-seasoned jumper (we are newer to eventing). We are currently at Novice with goals to move up to Training. I try to ride 5 times a week. Like others, what we do shifts depending on footing, time of year, whether we have a competition, etc.

Day 1- Moderate conditioning (trot sets with some slow canter) OR some flatwork in the ring with raised trot/canter poles if the footing is bad.
Day 2- Dressage school
Day 3- More pole work (sometimes this day is lower height gymnastic exercises)
Day 4- Conditioning. We have a 15 minute hack up a steep hill to where I do conditioning. We do some brief trot sets (total about 20 minutes) and then a short gallop sprint twice on each lead.
Day 5- Light flat ride in the ring and walk around the fields just to loosen him up.
Day 6- Rest
Day 7- Either an additional rest day, light flat work, or some jumping

[Ajierene]

My job means my days at the farm vary. I am there 7 days a week, work allowing. So she often gets days off in succession with when I am away from work. This means I don’t plan days off…

Sometimes it goes like this:
Dressage
Dressage
Jumping
Dressage
Conditioning
Dressage stretch day
Dressage
Jumping
Dressage
Dressage
Conditioning
Dressage
Jumping
…wait…did I just ride her 2 weeks straight? Oops…day off… or not if I’m going to be gone for 3 or 4 days in another day or two - then she’s stuck with 16 days in a row! I think the most we have done is 20 but she doesn’t seem to mind.

Generally speaking, 2 days of dressage, one day of something else. About once a week a conditioning ride and about once a week a ‘stretchy’ dressage ride where we don’t get out of walk but really work on shoulder in, haunches in, turn on forehand, turn on haunches, leg yielding, etc. Every once in a while we forgo the saddle and pretend we are kids again.

We don’t just hack that much because she doesn’t think we live in a safe neighborhood…to many roving Amish…so hacking isn’t really relaxing for her. Also, we have only farm fields around to hack and I don’t think it is proper to ride across someone else’s property if it is to muddy or to grown.

[horseshorseshorseshorses]

I have a long work day and live pretty far from the barn so it can be a bit of a challenge to see my guy 6 or more days a week. I have a friend who can fill in the gaps though!

• Mondays: Day off/ride or flat lesson with friend.
• Tuesday: Off
• Wednesday: Flat ride/lunge (myself, friend or trainer)
• Thursday: Jump lesson or long flat ride + hack if the ground is good
• Friday: Flat/lunge/groundwork
• Saturday: Flat/hack/jump
• Sunday: Flat/Jump/groundwork

I do put poles, small jumps he can walk over and other things on my flat days to keep my guy busy. He is 5 and building up the muscle to go longer and harder under saddle. Sometimes I will get on, feel the dragon start to think about taking flight and change my mind for the plans for the day. Sometimes my ride is bopping around the arena and watching the other horses go. I try and find things for him to think through at least once a week. Our hacks are limited to the marsh land behind the barn or going off property. The latter has been challenging due to his unwillingness to get into the trailer and my lack of a truck.