Aquatic Conditioning
A One Of Kind Conditioning Course For Your Canine Athlete
What is it?
Most people have heard of aquatic (or aqua) therapy. Something primarily used for low impact, low intensity water based exercise. Often for sick, senior or injured dog's and people. The primary focus of Aquatic Conditioning is optimum health and improved athletic performance.
Resistance, Assistance (buoyancy), and Instability make aquatic conditioning so unique and effective and no other conditioning platform can provide all three. Developed under the guidance of Eve Pugh DVM, CVA, CCRP and taught by Martial ARFS owner Jeris Pugh, this course will teach you how to use your pool, a lake, or the ocean to improve your dog's health or performance, like you never thought possible.
Aquatic Conditioning balance training is a platform for training your dog that goes far beyond anything they could do on land. First there's simply no way in which the platform will not move. This provides a consistent and constant need for your dog to adjust to the ground beneath them. As well, using a hard surface like a boogie board give your dog the feeling of being grounded while also providing a surface that immediately responds to any change in your dog's body position or limb placement. In this lesson Jeris explains how aquatic conditioning balance training works and why it's so beneficial
What Are The Exercises?
Aquatic Conditioning jumping trainig increases power as a result of your dog pushing through the resistance of the water. As well, the buoyancy helps to minimize the concussive forces of landing after a jump. In this example, Jeris explains the basics of aquatic conditioning jump training.
Jeris Pugh