Fitness Training for Eventers: A Role For Heart Rate Monitoring

Three-day eventers are known for being some of the fittest equine athletes. To be successful, they must balance suppleness and obedience in the dressage ring with power and endurance in cross-country and show jumping. However, even with meticulous planning, training protocols can sometimes fall short of meeting the exercise intensity of competition.

Learn about the insights gained when researchers gathered heart rate, speed, and lactate during the cross-country phase of eventing and how you can apply this research to your fitness program in this presentation from David Nash, director of nutrition technology at Kentucky Equine Research.

Don’t forget to join us for part two “Eventing Horse Nutrition” with Clarissa Brown-Douglas, Ph.D., coming up on Wednesday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. AEDT. Register now to join us live or receive a notification when the recording gets posted.