Resistance Bands Help Strengthen Horses’ Core Muscles

After four weeks of training with resistance bands, horses showed less unwanted vertebral movement along the back from the withers to the croup, said Nicole Rombach, APM, MEEBW, CCBW, PG AM, MSc, PhD, president of Equinenergy/Caninenergy Ltd. and chair of the International Equine Body Worker Association for the United Kingdom and Europe.
The bands stimulate proprioception—self-awareness of where and how an individual’s body parts are being used—Rombach said, which results in the strengthening of muscles that regular exercise doesn’t usually affect.
“There’s constant feedback in motion between the stimulus (the bands) and the muscles via the skin, and movement is created, altered, and/or enhanced by stimulation of those muscles—in this case, with emphasis on core musculature (the abdominals, obliques, and hindquarter stabilizers, including the biceps femoris),” she said
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