Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet
Exercise intensity of Icelandic riding school horses In Sweden, there are a total of 9500 horses at riding schools and a hundred riding schools with Icelandic horses. These horses are performing 5 million hours under rider each year. Despite this, there are very few studies measuring training inten...
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| author | Tjernström, Caroline |
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| description | Exercise intensity of Icelandic riding school horses
In Sweden, there are a total of 9500 horses at riding schools and a hundred riding schools with Icelandic horses. These horses are performing 5 million hours under rider each year. Despite this, there are very few studies measuring training intensity of horses in riding schools. Riding school horses are commonly participating in competitions during the year. However, there are no present studies on Icelandic horses training intensity at riding schools.
The main goal for training is to improve fitness and capacity of the horse to sustain a long and healthy life. To reduce the risk of overtraining, that results in damage to musculoskeletal tissues and potentially cause of lameness, trainers and riders must be aware of tools that can provide a better training schedule for the horse. Heart rate monitors are easy to use and provide a good tool for an objective measuring of condition. In this study training intensity of the Icelandic horse is measured in a riding school environment. The study contains two purposes; To find out how low/high the training intensity is and to see if the horses are well prepared for the type of competition they are competing in. The hypothesis was that the horses would not reach a high intensity during training, meaning they will rarely reach a heart rate frequency over 200 beats per minute and lactate levels around and above 4mmol/ L. The horses will reach a higher heart rate frequency during the competition than during training.
Five horses were measured during two weeks, totally at 8 occasions. The horse’s heart rate was measured before, during and after training. Lactate was measured by blood samples at the first occasion, immediately after the highest intensity of the training.
Four horses were used to measure the heart rate under a training occasion in comparison to a competition situation. The results of the measurements showed that the horses had a heart rate over 175 beat per minute during 02.18 minutes per training occasion and 03.43 minutes during the competition occasion. The horses had a low training intensity both during training and competition. Ten minutes after the competition the horse’s heartrate had recovered to below 80 beats per minute. They were prepared for the type of competition they were participating in. |
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| spelling | RepoSLU102592017-06-27T08:56:52Z https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/10259/ Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet Tjernström, Caroline Social sciences, humanities and education Exercise intensity of Icelandic riding school horses In Sweden, there are a total of 9500 horses at riding schools and a hundred riding schools with Icelandic horses. These horses are performing 5 million hours under rider each year. Despite this, there are very few studies measuring training intensity of horses in riding schools. Riding school horses are commonly participating in competitions during the year. However, there are no present studies on Icelandic horses training intensity at riding schools. The main goal for training is to improve fitness and capacity of the horse to sustain a long and healthy life. To reduce the risk of overtraining, that results in damage to musculoskeletal tissues and potentially cause of lameness, trainers and riders must be aware of tools that can provide a better training schedule for the horse. Heart rate monitors are easy to use and provide a good tool for an objective measuring of condition. In this study training intensity of the Icelandic horse is measured in a riding school environment. The study contains two purposes; To find out how low/high the training intensity is and to see if the horses are well prepared for the type of competition they are competing in. The hypothesis was that the horses would not reach a high intensity during training, meaning they will rarely reach a heart rate frequency over 200 beats per minute and lactate levels around and above 4mmol/ L. The horses will reach a higher heart rate frequency during the competition than during training. Five horses were measured during two weeks, totally at 8 occasions. The horse’s heart rate was measured before, during and after training. Lactate was measured by blood samples at the first occasion, immediately after the highest intensity of the training. Four horses were used to measure the heart rate under a training occasion in comparison to a competition situation. The results of the measurements showed that the horses had a heart rate over 175 beat per minute during 02.18 minutes per training occasion and 03.43 minutes during the competition occasion. The horses had a low training intensity both during training and competition. Ten minutes after the competition the horse’s heartrate had recovered to below 80 beats per minute. They were prepared for the type of competition they were participating in. I Sverige finns det totalt 9500 hästar på ridskolor runt om i landet (Svensk Ridsport 2017) och ett 100-tal ridskolor med islandshästar (Svenska Islandshäst Förbundet 2017). Dessa hästar utför 5 miljoner ridtimmar på ridskola varje år. Trots det höga antalet ridtimmar finns det endast ett fåtal studier utförda på hästarnas träningsintensitet i ridskoleverksamhet. Det är även vanligt att ridskolehästar deltar i tävlingssammanhang under terminerna vilket ställer ytterligare krav på deras fysiska förmågor. Enligt Evans (2000) kan ryttare, med hjälp av hjärtfrekvensmätningar, designa ett individanpassat träningsprogram för varje häst. Hjärtfrekvensmätare hjälper ryttaren kontrollera att hästen får den återhämtning den behöver, samtidigt som den tränar tillräckligt hårt för att förbättra sin kondition. Utan att mäta hjärtfrekvens eller laktatnivå vid träning vet ryttaren aldrig hur mycket hästen anstränger sig. Det är då inte möjligt att kontrollera träningsintensiteten efter de mål som är önskat för hästen. Hastighet och sträcka har även det en betydelse i förhållande till hjärtfrekvensen. Ryttaren behöver veta vilken hastighet och under hur lång sträcka hästen ska arbeta i en viss hjärtfrekvens för att kunna nå resultat med träningen och bygga upp en frisk och hållbar häst. Med hjälp av att kontrollera hästens återhämtning kan ryttaren upptäcka tidiga tecken på om något är fel i hästens kropp. En obalans mellan träning och återhämtning bidrar till en överansträngd häst och resultatet kan då bli t.ex. hälta, viktminskning, brist på tävlingsinstinkt och försämrad prestation (Hyyppä & Pösö 2004). En för låg träningsintensitet kan bidra till att hästen inte når sin önskade kapacitet. Hjärtfrekvens kan mätas med stetoskop eller genom att känna efter hästens hjärtfrekvens t.ex. under käken (Davies 2005). Hjärtfrekvensmätning i form av hjärtfrekvensband och hjärtfrekvensklocka ger möjlighet att mäta hjärtfrekvensen under hela ridpasset inklusive uppvärmning och nedvarvning. De moderna hjärtfrekvensklockorna har även en GPS funktion som mäter distansen på träningspasset samt vilket tempo hästen tränar i. Genom att kunna kontrollera vid vilken hastighet och distans hästen har en viss hjärtfrekvens, kan ryttaren anpassa intensiteten på träningen för att hästen ska hålla sig frisk och prestera efter sin bästa förmåga. Detta är ofta okända parametrar för många ryttare. 2017-06-19 First cycle, G2E NonPeerReviewed application/pdf sv https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/10259/11/tjernstrom_c_170627.pdf Tjernström, Caroline, 2017. Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet. First cycle, G2E. Uppsala: (VH) > Dept. of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry (until 231231) <https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/view/divisions/OID-712.html> urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-6460 swe |
| spellingShingle | Social sciences, humanities and education Tjernström, Caroline Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| title | Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| title_full | Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| title_fullStr | Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| title_full_unstemmed | Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| title_short | Träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| title_sort | träningsintensitet hos islandshästar i ridskoleverksamhet |
| topic | Social sciences, humanities and education |
| url | https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/10259/ https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/10259/ |