Today’s essay is not particularly mind-blowing or educational. Thinking about my friend Luke got me in the mood to talk about personal growth and horses.
Let me say that doing warm up exercise is never going to do harm. There is no reason to believe that it is a bad thing. But for most of us, it probably does not offer many advantages.
Hands up who lunges their horse and either instantly or within a lap or two, tell them to trot? Now keep your hands up if you also start trotting your horse within seconds of sitting in the saddle to ride.