What are EQ Bands and what do they do?
EQ Bands have been designed to elevate your fitness, balance, stability and riding position.
Designed to help and correct rider straightness, asymmetry and balance.
EQ Bands are the perfect tool to help develop a rider's position effectively through supported resistence training. Perfect for teaching riders to have the perfect position. Let the bands do the work, and start to learn the feel of a correct posture in the saddle.
They can be used on and off the horse to improve riders strength and core.
" Did you know that rider asymmetry can affect the way your horse moves and carries you as a rider."
" Resistence is the First Step to Change"
It's time we truly focus on ourselves as athletes, not only for our own gain but most importantly, our horses.
(Dee So'oialo - EQ Bands Founder)
What happens in an EQ Band lesson:
Ask the Rider to work in/warm up as normal. I will video snapshots of the warm up and then play back to the rider, explaining what I am seeing and how I am going to apply the bands and where.
I then will work with the rider and horse (whilst the rider is wearing the bands) to help correct the riders balance, position, stability and symmetry. I will also video some of this.
Then remove the bands and see the effect that the bands have made on the horse and rider. Again I will video.
The improvement seen whilst using the bands is usually carried forward to when the bands are removed.
All videos are sent to the rider and then I delete them from my files as per GDPR guidelines.
I will also demonstrate some of the exercises that can be done off the horse. To help improve your strength and core when riding. Not all positional correction work can be done in the saddle due to the body's muscle memory.i.e. a rider looking down when riding, will probably walk everywhere looking down or bowing their head. So if we can improve posture off the horse, the corrections made on the horse will become easier.
Exercises off the horse include work with the bands on and off a gym ball and balance board. The bands can also be used on their own off the horse.
"Resistance is the first step to change"
It's time we truly focus on ourselves as athletes, not only for our own gain but most importantly for our horses. Dee So'oialo - Dynamic Performance Hub
The EQ Bands are not just for the elite riders, but for EVERYONE, helping to deepen the riders seat, and helping to develop a riders "feel". The bands help you ride symmetrically and in balance with your horse which in turn helps to increase stability in the saddle so that the horse can move unhindered, therefore improving the horses way of going.
EQ Bands are available for purchase please contact Lynton Equestrian for further information
