No, tell him he looks fine and we said so. :yes: I love dirt bikes too! Had a little Yamaha when I was young and would love to do it again.
And kudos to the both of you enjoying and sharing the same hobby. I have to drag hubby to the barn…
The analogy that makes sense to me is that you can carry a lot of weight in a well balanced, well packed backpack, but 1/10 of that weight in a purse with a thin shoulder strap will send you to the chiro…
I know a fairly BNT/BNR in the jumper ring who breeds very nice sporthorses. She’s about 5’5" and definitely 200lb+, but man, can that girl ride. I watched her showing a sale horse to a prospective buyer – the mare moved like a silk ribbon over a course of fences. When the buyer (a gal who weighed considerably less) got on, the mare acted like she had broken glass under the saddlepad. So, yeah – it’s mostly in the ride.
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Fancy,
I’m a bit overweight due to a medication I’m on, plus pre-menopause doesn’t help either.
I always thought the same when I was young and thin. That it was always the persons fault, why don’t they diet, why don’t they excerise…etc. I dropped weight very easily.
Trust me, I feel very humbled.
I started working at a stable in mid December. Feeding, haying, scrubbing and dumping buckets. I cleaned 8 stalls. Doesn’t sound like a lot. But these horses were in pretty much 24/7 except for work and deeply bedded. Manure pile was not close to the barn…a lot of up hill pushing…:yes:
I thought, wow! I’ll lose some weight. In 4 months I lost nothing!!! And I mean nothing.
I watch what I eat, don’t eat junk. The medication slowed my metabolism way down…it sucks…
My pony is a stocky 13.1 hands and handles me fine. I’m a balanced rider, certainly don’t bounce all over…
Just please remember. Not everyone who is over weight is that way on purpose and wants to be that way…:([/QUOTE]
Of course, I am aware of that. That’s why my examples are people have NO intention of losing weight. No medical issues there, maybe psychological. I have nothing but sympathy for people who due to medical issues have difficulty dropping the weight.
I’m sending you a PM Huntertwo.
I do not think you are too heavy for the horse; I am 5’5" and have weighed 160 before. It was no problem for a sturdily built 15’1 (which is not that much taller than the horse you lease). Sure, the less you weigh for long distances is probably better; however it can depend on how your seat on the horse is. I found the extra weight affected my balance at times. But there is no way you are too heavy for that horse.
Frankly your neighbor does not sound like a very nice person to keep making little remarks about your weight. Yes, the comments could be a control thing, I do not think I would consider her a friend. I have a neighbor like that (comments about other things). I finally called it quits with her because no matter how much dealings I had with her (had been decreasing), she just did not know when to keep her mouth shut. If she had a problem about your weight, she should have not leased the horse to you.
You are not too heavy for the horse.
160? Pffft. That’s nothing.
Didn’t they do a study that found that weight was more of a factor in speed events than distance? I remember reading something like that long ago, but don’t remember where I found it.
