PREMIUM
Lunging | Easy
This exercise helps your horse to: - Challenge his lateral balance, engaging his thoracic sling alternately to the right and left - Challenge his longitudinal balance, also engaging the thoracic sling - Take responsibility for maintaining his own balance
PREMIUM
Lunging | Medium
Linking tight curves and straight lines on the lunge helps to: - challenge the horse’s lateral balance (and therefore engage the thoracic sling alternately on each side) - encourage the horse to take responsibility for maintaining his own balance
PREMIUM
Lunging | Easy
or your horse to properly engage his thoracic sling, you’ll need him to be: - relaxed - in a rather low-head posture The spiral exercise helps develop lateral balance, which means the horse mobilizes his thoracic sling alternately on the right and left sides. Because this exercise involves riding on curves, often quite tight ones, be careful not to ask for it too long or too often. If your horse is young, has trouble finding his own balance, or has physical issues that show up on tight curves, limit this exercise to a few minutes each direction and prioritize wide curves (like the large spiral).
Lunging | Customizable
Work on trot/canter transitions on the lunge line. Encourage relaxation over ground poles. Maintain impulsion at the trot.
Lunging | Hard
Working on suppleness, altering the circles size with lateral movement.
Lunging | Medium
Use ground poles to perform transitions.
Lunging | Easy
Helps to strengthen the horse's back and abdominal muscles.
Lunging | Customizable
Change the location of your circle while maintaining the same diameter.
Lunging | Customizable
Perform all types of upward and downward transitions by voice on a circle. Horse autonomy and connection.
Lunging | Medium
Enlarge and shrink circles over ground poles
Lunging | Customizable
Precision of aids to achieve a clear halt.
Lunging | Easy
Perfect for starting lunging with a young horse and breaking the routine of lunging in a circle
Lunging | Medium
Work on the horse's consistency and responsiveness.
Lunging | Easy
Improve the horse's responsiveness, attention, balance, and core strength.
Lunging | Hard
Improve precision in directing the lunge line.
Lunging | Hard
Improve precision in directing the longe line.
Lunging | Medium
To be able to alternate between bending and a straight horse on the longe.
Lunging | Medium
Find balance and supple the horse.
Lunging | Easy
Beginning of longeing work: achieve a smooth track
Lunging | Medium
Work over ground poles at all three gaits.
Make planning your riding sessions easier with our selection of the best exercises for lunging your horse.
Did you know? Lunging is a training technique in which the handler works with the horse as it moves around them on a large circle, using a long lunge line. It allows you to develop your horse's suppleness, balance and responsiveness, while also teaching them to respond to your voice — a great challenge to take on!
And of course, lunging is also ideal when you don't have the time or motivation to ride but still want to work with your horse.
Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced rider, or even a riding instructor, discover a wide range of lunging exercises for free.
Say goodbye to a lack of inspiration and the routine that can creep into your training sessions with your horse. Step outside your comfort zone, improve your skills and have fun with our community-driven platform for riding exercises.
Whether you're looking to improve your riding, prepare for a competition, discover the world of equestrian sport, or simply spend some quality time with your horse, Appaloo Equestrian is the tool for you!
To find THE lunging session that best matches your needs, use our search bar to select your discipline, level, training area and available equipment.
Tell us how many jump poles, cavaletti, jump standards and cones you have available.
You'll then get exercises tailored to the criteria you've entered. Each session includes a simple diagram, along with details of the objectives, how to perform the exercise and potential difficulties.
All you have to do is follow the instructions — almost like following a recipe!
We'll give you all the ingredients you need to improve your horse's way of going, develop their jumping technique, introduce gymnastic exercises or work on their landing and recovery.
To achieve your goals, all that's left is to put your recipe in the oven — in other words, grab your horse, your lunge line and head to your training area!
We are constantly adding new content to the platform, so you'll regularly discover new exercises designed to help you improve and keep your training sessions interesting.
And did you know we're not the only ones creating riding sessions? Our community shares its own ideas too!
Our community system allows you to add your favourite exercises that aren't already available on the website. Simply click "Submit My Exercise" at the top of any exercise page and fill in the form.
Add the session type, description and an illustrative diagram — it's simple, quick and easy!
Thanks to you, the variety of exercises available on the platform continues to grow.
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You'll also get a sneak peek at new features, behind-the-scenes content and photoshoots showing our exercises in action.
It's also a great opportunity to connect with our community of passionate riders and horse lovers.
We wish you an enjoyable lunging session with your horse, together with Appaloo Equestrian!
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