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What goes into an online coaching programme?
Online coaching & workouts have become more & more popular & accessible over the past 18 months thanks to the pandemic. All of us have...
kmbleekman
Oct 20, 20218 min read


Meet the riders; Jasmine Punter
Jasmine is one of my online coaching clients who has been training with me since Spring 2021. During this year she’s seen her showjumping...
kmbleekman
Oct 14, 20215 min read


The effect of your period on training
I specialise in training female Equestrians so female health & the menstrual cycle is something I like to educate all of my clients on....
kmbleekman
Oct 7, 20216 min read


Upper Body Workout for Riders
Upper body strength in riders is an important component to be the best & most effective you can be in the seat, whatever your discipline....
kmbleekman
Sep 30, 20213 min read


Rider Functional Training
Functional training is a buzzword that is most definitely overused these days in the fitness industry! You've probably been into a gym or...
kmbleekman
Sep 23, 20216 min read


What to eat for weight loss
If you typed that into google you’d find about 1,000,000 pages of results come up & where to start is like oh my word. Weight loss &...
kmbleekman
Sep 16, 20215 min read


Identity-Based Goals
It’s easy to look at your friend or another rider & think I should be doing that or I should be riding more like her. One thing that is...
kmbleekman
Sep 8, 20213 min read


Will yoga & mobility help my riding?
Fitting all areas of fitness into your weekly or monthly training programme is hard work; it’s a juggling act but it’s important that you...
kmbleekman
Sep 1, 20214 min read


What is the posterior chain & why is it important for riding?
I speak alot about strengthening your posterior chain when I am discussing rider fitness & strength training. When you want to increase...
kmbleekman
Aug 25, 20215 min read


Me time; getting caught up in the pace of life
It’s easy with the pace of life to get swept up & caught in all the craziness. Whether you’re running around behind your kids all day,...
kmbleekman
Aug 12, 20213 min read


Improve your sitting trot
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve ran a sitting trot series on my social media pages so I thought, after we’ve all been inspired by the...
kmbleekman
Aug 4, 20217 min read


Olympic Fever 🐴🇬🇧🐴🇬🇧🐴🇬🇧
With the Olympics going on all around us & Team GB absolutely smashing the dressage out the water it’s hard not to be inspired! Seeing...
kmbleekman
Jul 29, 20215 min read


Food for Stay Away Shows
It's the time of year where many of us find ourselves away at shows, camps or clinics every weekend or end of the week. It can seem like...
kmbleekman
Jul 21, 20216 min read


A riders healthy & balanced diet
Most riders spend hours of their time & hundreds of pounds working out the best nutrition & supplements to provide their horses with all...
kmbleekman
Jul 14, 20216 min read


Lower Back Pain & Riding
Back pain is something that affects most riders at some point during their riding lives. Understanding the cause of your lower back pain...
kmbleekman
Jul 7, 20216 min read


Fitness for the weekend rider
Many of us spend our days & weeks working 8-5 then come Friday the weekend is here & hurrah it is pony time! For those of us who are what...
kmbleekman
Jun 30, 20215 min read


Core Training to Actually Help Your Riding
If you walked into a gym or logged into a zoom session for a core class I'd put money on it that you'd see people lying on the floor...
kmbleekman
Jun 23, 20213 min read


How dehydration affects your riding ability
Considering the human body is made up of 40%-75% of water mass, hydration is absolutely key & whilst we are enjoying temperatures of up...
kmbleekman
Jun 16, 20216 min read


Tight hip flexors?
Many riders I work with come to me suffering from hip flexor tightness & pain. Your range of motion at the hip joint hugely affects your...
kmbleekman
Jun 9, 20215 min read


Consistency is key
I’ve started to realise that much of my written content starts with the line; “Just as you would with your horse.” It’s becoming a...
kmbleekman
Jun 2, 20216 min read
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