#movement training for overweight horse

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What Does a Horse Breaker Do?

Horse breakers in Victoria offer a wide range of services for thoroughbreds. The Booralite Park facility is a fully-roofed arena where thoroughbreds are broken and prepared for racetracks. The facility is close to several Australian premier training facilities and is renowned for its minimal stress on thoroughbreds. This facility is used by many international and domestic trainers.

Horse breakers in Victoria also offer transportation for horses. These breakers use Traditional and Natural methods to teach horses to behave. Natural methods include ground training, which teaches the horse to accept a roller. These methods are safe for both horses and riders. These services are also available throughout Victoria. The services are provided at locations close to where you live and work.

Jodie Oliver is one such trainer who started breaking in horses at the age of eleven. She trained alongside her father, Denny Oliver, an experienced horse trainer. Denny had extensive experience in working on large sheep and cattle properties and travelled extensively. In addition to her own business, Jodie Oliver hosts workshops where new trainees and experienced riders can learn from the most experienced professionals.

To make sure the horse is ready for training, horse breakers must first assess the movement of the horse. During the assessment, they can identify if the horse is physically unfit for work or has any small peculiarities. Once this has been determined, adjustments are made to suit the horse's needs. Additionally, horses should be examined for teeth and dental issues. They should also be properly conditioned for riding.

A well-broken horse is a reliable performer. It understands leg aids and responds to rein aids. It will also not be easily spooked. A horse breaker can be self-employed or can work at a horse property. Horse breakers usually provide services in a round pen or arena. If you are looking for a horse breaker in Victoria, you should do your homework. These specialists specialize in training horses and working on large and small properties.

Breaking a horse is an ongoing process with each step building on the last. To start with, you have to teach the horse how to stand still when being ridden. If you fail to do this, the horse will develop overweight and weak muscle tone, which are dangerous and can cause injuries. If a horse is not trained properly, it will be difficult to control it.

Horse breakers are a great resource for breaking a young horse into harness. They can be highly skilled and have excellent reputations for their work. These professionals are largely self-employed and require advanced horsemanship skills. It is never recommended to try breaking a horse without professional help, and you should always follow the instructions of a qualified professional. Remember, safety is the number one priority. There are many ways to break a horse.

During their training, horses will do pace work. This is done on a moderate hand gallop. The half pace is roughly 18 seconds per 200m. The three quarter pace is about fourteen to fifteen seconds per furlong. Vigorous pace is rated between fifteen and twenty seconds. This can be extremely difficult on a horse's developing skeletal structure.

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Acorn Castles

Ok, here is the Firebender series. I know! I finally finished it after having been swamped with ideas for other series. :D

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Bruised and bloody you sat by the stream waiting on the Dwarves to finish bathing for your turn. None of the Dwarves wished to see you in pain or so badly afflicted by training. Dwalin out of all of them bore the weight the hardest, silently wringing the blood stain from his knee on his pants from a move ending with his leg hitting you in the nose. There was little faith when Gandalf showed up with your shivering wide eyed self to BagEnd after having wrangled another innocent bystander into the mix of his Journey claiming you would be the perfect Dragon Slayer.

A life of isolation on a tiny island with nothing but snow, snow and more snow a prank from the other young adults in the village ended with your being sent out to sea on a patch of ice. Another world where you should have been raised from firmer stuff but you were a scientist, a dreamer child of the two top researchers in protection of whales and all Arctic life leaving you less than popular for their impressions of the villagers who had been there forever holding less than factual impressions of each creature you came across.

It was decided to train you up as you couldn’t be left alone and no matter how hard you were hit even by accident you always got up and even once made Dwalin impressively scoot back half a foot in a full body slam at his urging leaving you groaning on your back in the collapse after. A rousing round of claps and cheers sure didn’t help your dislocated shoulder Oin was less than gentle in twisting back into place triggering a three day death of your arm unable to be rotated at all issuing warnings to him not to mend your dislocations that way again, because they knew it would occur again.

You were never greatly overweight, but in the surface of the water it was as if you were looking at a stranger. Thin and lean with dips and curves tracing each burning torn muscle throbbing to warn you of its injuries through each movement. Even in drying you could feel the silhouette of your figure had altered beyond what you had assumed possible. Not that you lacked motivation, you had scores to any task you wished to take on, merely when it came to fitness you preferred having a trainer or workout buddy, something severely lacking back home where you had no friends except for your giant fluffy bear dog now splashing through the lake following Thorin’s raven Roac. He loves to run and so the treadmill was your go to for cardio, something now helping at least to keep you from a heart attack through the body morphing wrestling and weapon training bouts.

Using your severely blistered hands bundled in sturdy unforgiving bandages small smooth stones were gathered up and in a circle you began to build the first house. Always while the men bathed or hunted for supper once you had been guarded through gathering wood or water on your own you would be found creating tiny villages with stones, clover, moss, twigs, leaves or any other items you might find around camp. Each day growing more extravagant with crude shovels from sticks used to carve out little lakes or streams through the town stirring soft grins onto your face. The act itself childish from the days of their youth stirring memories from each Dwarf of their own building blocks from days long gone, yet the act all the more admirable to them as it showed along with your adamant resolve that there were similarities between your races and upon that you might just find comfort in Erebor.

“Uncle, she’s doing it again.” Kili murmured in Khuzdul using his arm in a faked scrub of his face and hair to block the movement of his mouth.

“I see that,” Balin replied while Thorin wrung out his hair on the bank slowing himself to dry a bit more before pulling on his pants. Always as the leader he had to inspect his Company, even the ever unwelcoming Bilbo who did all he could to puff up and make certain it was known he did not take kindly to stares. You had shared that back home you would often wake up with small bruises without source. But the truth was far from comforting as through training they could find hand prints and large swollen bruised chunks of your body often leading to one or more of them to have to excuse and re-gather themselves from bursting into tears for the pain them in their stronger physiques had put upon you.

He hated this, but you would never survive if you were not trained, even in speaking often found to be too shy to meet the eye of those who spoke to you around the dinner fire. Gaze forward making certain not to impose. Not to be a hindrance. Not to create extra work for the Dwarves who made note of every accomplishment. Including the first time you could lift the saddle of your horse on your own halting Bofur and Bifur from assisting you on dressing him every day that stirred a wide smile from yourself to the ground in a silent moment of self pride bolstering the mood of the men on the beginnings of that gusty unpleasant day.

“Ah, a fine village, is that your former home?” Bilbo asked, the Hobbit’s arrival at your side had the Dwarves’ beards bristling as they didn’t notice his departure and from irritation on the chance you might be hindered from your silent hobby of assumed he was ridiculing you.

“Oh, no. There’s a game, back home, where you get to build your village and there are these houses with animals in them and you can go through the island fishing and collecting fruit and digging up treasure. I usually just recreate the layouts from the different versions I saw in a book on the game.”

Bilbo grinned inching closer on his knees helping to secure a tiny fence you secured the end of by winding another blade of grass to bind it to the twigs around it. “Well a fine job you are doing if I might say so. Built many a fairy dwelling myself in my Fauntling days.”

“Well, way I see it, if I build a Kingdom a day from here to Erebor I might be strong enough to face a Dragon.”

Bilbo patted your arm, “That is a marvelous plan. Perhaps I might take up building myself to practice planning on burgling a hoard. Confidence is half the effort, well concluded.”

Smirking to yourself as the words sank into the hearts of the hushed Dwarves you said, “Or at the very least I could fib and say I have experience in building to make it on a work crew. Lord knows there will be plenty to rebuild if it’s how I picture it. Dragons aren’t very slender creatures, all tail and wings bound to knocked a wall or two.”

Bilbo asked, “Any clue on how to face him yet?”

“Well, one would hope he has just left when we arrive, but fill a hand with dirt the other with wishes, which fills faster. What my Dad always said.” It wasn’t pride in your tone but pain, they could all feel the pain those words inflicted on you, how harshly they resonated and now they all had a deep ache to ensure any wish of yours possible to fulfill they would ensure came true. “Truth is, our Lords and Princes slew our Dragons to the last one proving their might. There isn’t much known about them to the public past they are gone now.”

Bilbo wet his lips seeing your melancholy gaze to the moss roof you were adding to a little bridge with a road underneath to help with rainwater collection, “Why does that make you sad?”

Glancing up you shook your head saying, “It seems you can’t throw a stone without hitting someone or a people with a terrible tale to tell about the Fire Nation, where I came from. Nothing but cinders and burnt bloody paths to bring about our glorious empire.” His hand extended to land on your knee drawing your eyes to his, “We’re not all bad. Some of us are just trying to make it day to day while our soldiers are out ruining our honor. We used to be so great, so good, that’s why the dragons gave us their fire in the beginning. And we repayed them by hunting them down and mounting their heads on our temple walls.”

Bilbo shook his head while the Dwarves just about were ready to cry for this truth they were just learning, “You are not bad. Farthest thing from it. There is no Fire Nation here, you are from the Shire.” He said nodding his head, “Consider yourself an honorary Baggins. I’m certain together we can see the end of that greedy old dragon, hopefully he’s long to bones when we get there, but in these lands our Dragons from what I’m told give naught but grief and destruction, no fire givers here. Two separate buckets entirely.” That drew a weak try for a chuckle from you and he wet his lips asking the question burning at him, “How did you end up all alone where Gandalf found you?”

“Oh,” you sighed out, “My father angered the Fire Lord so he banished us to a Northern Water Colony in the middle of a tundra of an island. The other children despised me, for where I came from, what they thought I was. But my parents were scientists, studied the animals and plants, what little there was. One day they must have snuck in unhitching my wagon from the trailer and left me and my dog out on a block of ice not realizing it’d break off and send me out to sea.”

“Varmints!” Dwalin growled drawing your eye a moment luring mutters of his try to not rant about how they didn’t deserve your company or presence on their island at all for treating you as such.

“Wasn’t all bad, I got big Bo out of the move. He doesn’t mind my company.”

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“Trolls have the ponies,” Fili whispered to Kili only to have them flinch when you whispered behind them.

“What are trolls?” They both looked at you and you asked, “Like live under bridges, Trolls? We only have those in stories. How do you fight them?”

Kili, “Best way is daylight, but that’s hours off yet.”

“Boggins!” The pair said and rushed off to fetch Bilbo.

Under furrowed brows your eyes narrowed finding the ponies and from behind a tree you eyed a giant bubbling cauldron for a stew. All at once Bilbo was suddenly upside down gripped by a hand without a source and in the moment of deliberation whether or not to disarm to the order of the invisible Troll the men all seemed to be looking up at. Hard and fast you raced out and slammed your feet into the cauldron sending it onto the now screaming trio you caught faint slivers of from the scalding liquid sliding down their bodies. While the Company had gathered to catch Bilbo, who was sent flying your eyes scanned over the clearing to your quickening breaths asking, “Where are they?!”

The last of the liquid had lessened to where you could barely make it out in the campfire aiding in shadows to blot out their heavy steps in the grass, “What does she mean?” Gloin asked stirring questioning mutters from the Dwarves.

A swing of an arm straight for your head had Thorin shouting, “Down!”

You complied and Bifur asked, “You can’t see them? At all?”

“Sunlight,” you muttered, “Turn around! Cover your eyes!” A hand back to the campfire through a deep inhale spurred on a stunning back flip away from the invisible trio and in a wave of arms to a pausing position with hands joined outstretched in front of you the Dwarves’ mouths dropped to the wave of fire flying from the wood to your palms. A circle of your hands and a wave like motion of your arm to your right to a lift of your leg to ease it back close to a lunge began the circle of the brightening flames behind your back. The swing of your left arm came with a pendulum spin with your leg kicking up as your torso dropped to rise again, a quarter of a pirouette motion with your leg came before another dropping spin with arms guiding the flames to spark up. Fingertips gliding through the wall of flames stirring up blips of lightning while the Trolls shielded their eyes and the Dwarves turned while Bilbo hid himself behind Bombur. 

Brighter and brighter in the distance the Elves on guard took notice of the sunlit bubble just hours to midnight. Deep breaths to the dimming of the light had the group peeking out to watch your final paused pose with palms sliding together in front of your chest through the drop of your foot to plant beside your other foot. Bilbo asked in his inching step out, “Fire Nation? You, didn’t mean, literal fire the Dragons gave you?”

“Well,” you said then wet your lips that only stayed dry like the rest of your mouth. “We have an internal flame, I’m only self trained. Dad hated benders, having worked so long under them.”

Dwalin, “benders?”

“Those in the Fire Nation who can control fire. My parent’s were non-benders I couldn’t tell them. But there was no shortage of books to sneak from the library on bending techniques.”

Thorin just about hummed out, “You can control fire? Does Gandalf know of this?”

“No.” A whine from Bo turned your head to find him dragging a sack of potatoes you claimed and opened, “Potatoes?” That had the search for treasure on lit by a torch from the campfire you had sent the flames back to. Inside the hoard from the food you followed Thorin’s call to bring you over.

“Miss Pear, here,” your eyes fell to the twin blades and bow with a quiver he packed for you with arrows from several other half packed quivers found within the hoard. “These are more suited for someone your height, Elven made by the looks of it, light and sturdy. Might not trust the lot, but the forest dwellers can smith a fine blade.”

“Thank you,” to your braid hanging frayed over your chest his eyes sank making yours as well, “Something on me?”

Catching those same silver flecked purple eyes looking down at him he shook his head stealing another glance to your dusty dirtied wild curls normally in a shimmering white with speckles of tiny hues of colors temptingly close to opals under direct moon or sunlight nearly driving the Company to requesting a lock of it to treasure always. “Just, your braid has seen better days. I must ask though, did your parents have hair similar to yours?”

“Oh, no. Mother had the curls, but she went into labor while a volcano erupted and sought shelter in a temple for the spirit of the magma. When I was born my eyes and hair were like this.” Down your gaze shifted and you added, “Part of why I was decided to wed my betrothed.”

Balin, “You we’re separated from your lover?”

Locking eyes on him you shook your head, “I’ve never met Turok, his father once in passing when I was a child. He was a General and spoke to the Fire Lord who proclaimed the match.”

Thorin’s brows furrowed, “The Fire Lord proclaimed your match?”

You nodded, “Anyone of standing in the Fire Nation weds who the Fire Lord chooses for us.”

“That’s absurd!” Came at once from the Company and Bombur said, “And terribly cruel. Did you find one you wished to marry but could not?”

“No, I was sent to an all girls school once my match was set and I was secluded from any males outside my bloodline. Until we got sent to the Water Tribe village that is. There was no risk of any trying to befriend me let alone try for a match with me.”

Thorin let out a growling breath and locked his eyes on yours to say, “There is a great deal of cruelty I wish to blow back onto your clan for what you have endured.”

Dwalin said, “We will ensure when we are toasting and feasting to our return you will have no shortage of dance partners.”

“Oh, well, you might have to teach me the dances. We weren’t allowed to dance until our wedding lessons for the ceremony.”

For a tense moment the group held back their comments and Bombur broke the silence, “We should load the wagon with the food we have found, what could be salvaged, then rest up for he night back at camp and move on ahead.”

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Across your back Bo slept in his usual way covering most of your body comforting the Dwarves that while you had a thick fur coat too warm for the chilly front rolling in leaving you just to your bedroll and a thin blanket that you would be warm enough. Past the now statue Trolls and bunnies and foxes eating the veggies from the spilled cauldron Gandalf strolled curious of what had occurred through the night. The trunk spotted through the cover parted by his staff on the back of your wagon he had found you, Bo and your things inside of he eyed the gold and treasure that with a muttered enchantment would not be visible to any outside the Company while inside the wagon.

Drawing back his staff he continued past the wagon finding you again with the creeping sunrise seated upright on your own a bit of distance from the camp giving off a faint shimmer through your morning meditations. Another odd trait the Dwarves tolerated once Gandalf had given his best guess it was a time for reflection to see if the Valar might send you guidance on your road ahead. A stick crunching underfoot opened your eyes and he could feel your return to the present next seeing your body turn and rise to grin in the usual way and welcome him back again.

Disbelieving Gandalf eyed you with Bofur and Bifur holding your hands a few moments into Thorin’s defense of you in that if Gandalf, who brought you into this Company, doubted your abilities then he did not deserve a demanded performance of said abilities. The dispute solidifying that there would be no trip to Rivendell souring Gandalf’s mood entirely to vanishing on the wind as soon as he had arrived to try and speak with Elrond to lure the Company there.

“Don’t you lower your eyes,” Gloin said as you helped to clear up camp in readying to head out. “Stubborn Wizard should have never thought he could demand a display, you were trembling after stoning those Trolls. No need to strain yourself without cause.”

Dwalin patted your back in passing you with his saddle resting on his shoulder in a subtle sign not to back up. “Listen to him Lass, not as if the wandering folk can control our Company. Barely a month all together that Wizard has traveled with us always off on the wind. You have seniority.”

Oin came over triple checking, “You are certain you are not burned?”

“Fire is more than heat, it’s light, a living thing. I can be burned but it would take some doing and I would have to be caught off guard.”

Oin nodded passing you a kerchief with a few berries in it, “A snack, last not scavenged by critters before the looming frost.”

He walked off with your thanks and the group made certain that you made it up onto your horse with ease as Nori and Dori secures their ponies behind Gandalf’s horse to pull the wagon they shared the front bench to. South you turned and for days stealing glances back when pausing for breaks distant echoes of more horses kept luring your attention to the empty distance even through the start of another deluge. Grumpy in the wagon Bo slept or moped looking through the front window lying on top of your bags while you sat under your rain cloak trying to keep from nodding off at your body’s urge to curl up when it rained. Another adorable trait for the Dwarves who ensured to have your tent ready upon camping on rainy days to grant you a mini nap before waking you for meals.

“I heard it that time,” Ori exclaimed as you turned for the end of the green pastures towards the distant mountains with slightly rockier ground around a well worn dirt path the men claimed their kin used often when they cross these ways.

“See! I’m not crazy!”

“No one said you were,” Bombur said patting his hand on your leg to his right unable to reach your knee on your tall horse.

Thorin stayed in a huff, “Probably those Elves Gandalf was so keen on visiting. We will lose them in the pass to the Mines.”

“What’s that like?”

Dwalin, “Dark,”

Fili, “Thousands of goblins,”

Kili, “Wargs too! One of the most winding forgetful paths our kin have laid to ward off intruders.”

“Sounds cozy,” Bilbo muttered and Thorin glanced back at you with a nod of his head, “If you feel up to it you could ride up with us up front.”

“I’m good back here out of your way. You know the path. Besides I have a habit of startling my horse friend here still.”

Lowly he chuckled and turned forward remembering the time a you had woken up from another rainy day nap and made your horse rear up sending you hard onto your back in the mud after your full body jerk to a leaf hitting your face. “Change your mind just trot on up.”

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Dark and full of screeches the pass stretched on and on. When a glowing breath of a tiny flame behind your hand to peek at your pocket watch on your lap signaled for the night to camp in the pitch black cavern. A small cave was located and thanks to your flame between your palms it was lit up for all to sit inside once two axes were used to secure the cover for the entrance.

Between Bifur and Bofur you crept to the dark lapping river announcing its location even in the dark, another silent marker for their kin who unlike you and Bilbo had a clear view of the path with their eyes so tuned to the dark. Listening between shuddering breaths uncertain of when you had ever been in a place so dark stirring up a fear you didn’t want to admit their kind could not understand as the darkness was not debilitating to them. By feel alone each water skin was lowered into the frigid waters bubbling until full signaling your move to fill the next. “What is that?” You asked eyeing a glint in the distance to your right upstream.

By the sound of their collars shifting you knew they eyed the path to the right finding the odd glint you must be speaking of. Along the muddy ground under the surface it bumped and bobbed until wetting your lips you set the skins down to dunk your arm down nearly to your shoulder. Biting back a wince and gasp from the temperature you kept reaching seeing it was lower than your hand causing your knees on the edge of the river to slide. Onto your belt securing your over shirt the pair took hold to keep you on the shore watching your shift back as the slimy muddy mess with the glowing core came closer to the surface. “It’s slimy,” You muttered and from the hard rocky edge of the stream your other hand lowered to start scrubbing only brightening the area. Hastily Bifur removed his cloak to dangle around the water above your heads and hands blocking some of it. Above the surface the brightly glowing stone with a milky galaxy of glittering mist and waves in spectrums of colors shifted in your palms now fully cleaned narrowing the pupils of the awed Dwarves and yourself. Their focus shifted to returning to the cave as you asked, “What sort of stone is this?”

Bofur said, “Best take it inside.”

“Right,” You said hastily plopping it though the neck of your shirt darkening the world to you again for Bifur to re-secure his cloak around his neck. “Sorry.”

Bofur patted your back translating Bifur’s signing, “No apologies, we admired it as well. Quite a treasure you found there.”

Water skins were gathered up and to the cave the pair guided you to find the Dwarves smirking taking notice of your soaked sleeves. “Fall in?” Kili chortled out to Fili’s snickering.

Bifur however signed that you had found something and mouths dropped with Gloin saying, “Glowing stone? What stone?”

After ensuring the cover was secured behind you, awkwardly you dug into your outer shirt to bring out the lemon sized stone filling every crack of the cave with brilliant light. Dropping the jaws of the Dwarves who each tenderly took their chance to inspect it while Bilbo straightening up the blanket he had set down for your spot to keep a chill off you from the freezing stone similar to his spot. At his side you heard the debating Dwarves unable to come to a conclusive name for the stone that as Bilbo finally got his turn he asked noticing the tears in your eyes at another glance to the swirling colors inside that had quickened and slowed by how far it was from you. “Miss Pear, why are you crying?”

Post subtle sniffle you answered, “I don’t know why, but there’s something about it that makes me sad. Like an old memory.” Ori beside you patted your back and you said shaking your head, “Maybe it’s like something from an old story sparking up in my head.”

Ori, “I used to cry seeing gourds, took me a while before I remembered about this one scene of parted lovers from a tale our Amad told us when we were little. It will surface in time.” He smiled as you glanced his way, grinning to his, “You will see.”

Dwalin said, “Might be able to wrangle up something to help cover that if you like.”

“No, I have an idea.” The men got to fixing dinner while subtly you crept out to dig in the hoard from the Troll trunks. With a handful of copper cups full of white gold coins and a white gold chain the men smirked seeing you sit on the cold dirt by the ponies napping in the safe warm cave that with your hands you dug a hole just a bit larger than the stone lighting the activity.

Hot and hard into your palms you blew licks of flames until you felt the right temperature to lift the first coin you flattened to their awe to fill what they realized was a mold in the dirt. Steadily the hole was filled until the back was forged. Next the first cup was heated and using the dagger in your boot thin strips like wire were set aside then woven into a pair of trees. The trunk spiraled splitting into smaller groups of spiraled branches reaching to the edges matching the shorter roots. Then against the back you used your water skin to clean and polish smooth with more flames from between your lips and hard pressed of your sore but finally blister free fingers. Each motion skilled after years of trinket forging on your room while the other children played outside.

Actions luring the Dwarves into a trance the tree now heated was pressed into the white gold and set aside to cool. The other side of the stone would be covered with copper with the coins flattened and cut to weave another tree pressed into the front. That through the tiny holes they had noticed you wet your lips and with the tweezer kit Nori had passed you strips of both copper and white gold was woven into hinges and a hidden securing lock on the other side along with a harnessing loop to hook into the chain. In securing the stone inside your new locket you couldn’t help but giggle to the claps from the Dwarves who each took a turn inspecting the craftsmanship of the impressive bit of jewelry.

Balin, “You will make a fine jeweler, Miss Pear.”

“Perhaps for fun, I doubt I could make a living from lockets.”

The Dwarves scoffed and took to sharing the history of their kin surrounding jewels including shared bits of jewelry tucked on their persons that each had accomplished forging themselves for certain markers in their growth with the youngest trio showing woven bracelets yet to be old enough to be trusted alone to the forges just yet. Around your neck the chain settled and the locket rested surprisingly light to your chest as Thorin said, “Well maneuvered on the hinge as well, not a sliver of light to be found.”

“Well wouldn’t be a good way to pay you back if I got us killed out here by giving us away.”

His sentimental grin widened and he hummed, “I look forward to uncovering more of your hidden talents in Erebor.”

Pt 2

[ramblingsaboutriding]

A Flame Rekindled

Chapter 1

The postie has just pushed today’s letters (my bills that I must pay – adulting really fucking sucks don’t you think?) through my letterbox. It is lunchtime in England. I know this because Darren always delivers my post at 12:30, and a glance at the clock on my desktop confirms this. Tea is being made by the masses working from home, sandwiches prepared, and queues being formed at sandwich trucks or at the local shop, meal deals in hand. What I am I having? Tesco’s Calorie Controlled Beef Lasagne. It needs salt. Why the government in this country insists on trying to draw out the last bit of happiness out of the population is beyond me. “Taste the flavour of the meat and vegetables…” Cut the crap, they wouldn’t eat this shit any more than they would feed it to their dogs. I don’t give a shit if half the population is overweight, myself included!

Another bite of the flavourless pig slop disguised as lasagne and I think of the expedition that led me to this very disappointing purchase. For reasons unknown, my body decided that waking up at 04:47 this morning was a good idea. What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck? I have wrinkles on my face that are starting to resemble the Grand fucking Canyon! I need the beauty sleep. Yet, scrolling through social media couldn’t keep me in bed. That and my need to pee. Then there was also the little fact that I had no toilet paper. So off I toddled to Tesco to stock up on the white gold that was such a hot commodity during the first few Covid infested months of 2020. The Great Bog Roll Shortage.

I hate shopping at Tesco. Purely because I always buy shit I don’t need when I am there. Their marketing team needs a salary increase. Tesco’s Calorie Controlled Beef Lasagne is case in point. Shit is also the perfect description for the salt-less pig slop I am really trying to get down. Anyway, I digress. More shit that I didn’t need but just wanted was the latest issues of horse porn (no, not like that!). Yes, I succumbed and spent my hard-earned sterling on Horse & Hound and Horse & Rider respectively. Another bite of the now cold pig slop. Sis.1 The canine-child is turning his nose up at it. I give up and deposit the remaining lasagne in my very grateful dustbin.

After my early morning shop and whizz through the Costa drive through, I page through my pornography of choice to see what they have to offer before the working day starts.

God help me, but I want to ride.

I want to spend my days riding and learning. Building a partnership with a horse and getting to know my equine partner so well, that we are confident enough to compete and leave a mark on the competition world. Every fibre in my terrified being wants to feel the power of a Warmblood performing the most difficult movements in total control beneath me. My body in complete sync with the horse’s, speaking a language that nobody else can understand, hear, or read. Synergy.

Terrified because I have fallen off so many times that my once unwavering confidence has cracked over the years. My body has taken so many beatings that Winter is hard on certain joints. The cold makes them ache. The elbow I landed on with my full weight so I wouldn’t land with my face on a jump pole. The shoulder that got yanked after I involuntarily dismounted with no grace, dismantled an oxer, all the while still holding onto the reins as my horse wanted to piss off into the setting sun. I couldn’t lift that arm up properly for months. Backache from years of incorrect posture in the saddle that is so painful I can barely walk. The terror is getting so bad that I forget to breathe when I mount up sometimes. When I am not riding, I think of it. Analyse myself and try to reprogram my mind to not succumb to my fear, research ways of overcoming it and watch YouTube videos to process it. All this effort because I still want to ride. Train so hard that my sweat drips down my back and soaks into my shirt. Reach Grand Prix before I croak, even if it is just once.

I have wanted this all my life. There are days where I feel like I will die never having achieved this goal. This single thought overwhelms me with debilitating depression. It makes me cry as hard as I do when I think of ending up completely alone. Alone I can combat and overcome, but not getting the opportunity to try and reach my dream will kill me. It is slowly killing me inside. My corporate job is great, my boss walks on water and I enjoy what I do, but it is also slowly sucking the soul out of me. I am dying inside. You must have a big girl job and earn enough to live off. Yes, agreed. In fact, I enjoy the fruits of my labours. Travelling, books and spoiling the hound. Great lifestyle. It still feels empty. There is no purpose. It is mediocre day to day living. No wonder that I get so enthralled by certain books that I am desperate for those worlds to be real. I want to escape my reality.

It sounds ungrateful, and that couldn’t be furthest from the truth. I am grateful. Humbled by how fortunate I am and the lifestyle I am currently afforded. It just lacks purpose. There is the constant drive to try and earn more. More so I can buy my own horse. A horse that I can scream and bounce about on the inside, and quietly keep below the radar until we are ready. A horse that I can train and finally use the choreography that I prepare when I listen to music and ride to it. A horse that will be the reason I buy dressage tails. A horse that will make my dreams a reality.

All this emotion surfaces as I page through the glossy magazine. It bubbles up through me as I read Charlotte Dujardin’s top tips on finding a talented horse when beginning the laborious search for a prospect to buy. My need to do this soon intensifies. How the hell am I going to do this? The answer has been formulating in my mind for a while, but I need to be a bit more patient. When it comes to this particular topic in my life, patience is not one of my virtues. It is simply the bane of my existence.

My God, I want to ride.

I am staring at the glossy magazine, lying next to me whilst I wait for my teabag to steep. I flung it there this morning and have been attempting to avoid looking at it.  Lunch is over and I need to get back to the policies and procedures that I need to delegate and update, set up invites for an audit that is three weeks away, prepare a presentation for the executive team, and finally catch up on a few of the tasks I have kept on the back burner for the last few weeks. I love and hate it. I think I will cry into my teacup for five minutes and then pull myself together. I am still fucking starving though. 

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Five unexpected cases when lack of weight can be rescued

Athletic physique is not only a beautiful fit figure that is nice to look at, but sometimes it is also a matter of survival.

In what situations can excess weight cost you a life?

A person with good physical condition overcomes stress easily. After all, excess weight, as a rule, complicates your movements. Especially in extreme situations such as when you need to escape quicklt, get out of a narrow space or overcome an obstacle. Of course, even strong muscles do not guarantee absolute safety, but in some cases it can be beneficial.

Sometimes if you have extra weight, you can get a serious injury, while with a normal body weight, it will be just a bruise.

In what cases can the absence of excess weight save your life?

Escape to a safe place

When coming across, for example, a wild animal, a prepared person has more chances to escape — to run away, at a high speed, to endure a long run or climb a tree. But overweight people may not have enough endurance.

Overweight increases the risk of injury, so in an emergency situation, when you need to run long and fast, you can easily get a bruise or a fracture. Plus, shortness of breath or high blood pressure can lead to dizziness or even loss of consciousness at the most crucial moment.

Get out of the trap

It will be much easier for owners of a fit body to get out of a narrow space: hatches, windows, portholes will not become a serious obstacle when the time matters and you need to quickly leave the place. Excess weight can greatly interfere, plus it is an additional factor of injury in a fall. You can get a serious injury while having a normal weight, it would be limited to a bruise.

Save yourself when falling on the rails

Accidents in the subway are not so rare, it can happen to anyone. If you crash into someone, for example, you can accidentally fall on the rails. If there’s a train approaching, there is only one way out — to lie face down on the track. In this position, it will not harm a person with a normal weight. The situation is quite different for those who have an obesity. Excess weight in this case can lead to injuries and worse.

Swim a long distance

If you suddenly find yourself overboard, a life jacket will not let you drown. But only if the weight is no more than 150 kg — these are the standard requirements. Otherwise, you are unlikely to stay afloat.

In addition, a tight-fitted life jacket will limit your movements, leaving no chance to swim to the shore on your own. Also in this situation, overweight people may not have enough stamina and lung capacity to remain maneuverable on the water. Meanwhile, it is easier for owners of athletic bodies to put on a life jacket designed for standard sizes and get to land.

Keep your balance

It is easier for a person in a good shape to control the position of the body in space. The higher the sense of balance is developed, the more chances there will be to maintain balance, for example, on a galloping horse or on the edge of a cliff. Meanwhile, obese people may have difficulty with this.

Overweight leads to muscle weakness, impaired motor functions, balance and static problems. In unfavorable conditions, such complications can lead to truly disastrous consequences.

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If your legs and feet feel sore, heavy and tired at the end of a long day, you’re not alone. Our feet strike the ground over 10,000 times in a single day, absorbing more than 600 metric tons of force over a lifetime. For most of us, heavy, tired legs are the result of prolonged tension which leads to fatigue. Overuse, whether training too hard or simply standing for extended periods of time each day, contributes to that undeniable sore, weighted feeling in the legs. However, underusing your legs (or lack of physical activity in general) can also cause discomfort and lead to painful cramping. But sometimes it’s not that simple and a combination of other factors can lead to the condition. Understanding why your legs feel tired and your feet are sore is an important first step in determining the best line of treatment.

What else causes heavy, tired legs and sore feet?

Besides over or underusing the legs and feet, other factors can contribute to leg fatigue and foot soreness. First, age is sometimes a factor. Unfortunately, as we age, our connective tissue (cartilage) changes, causing leg achiness and tightness. Circulation issues are also a common culprit. Why? Because poor circulation has the biggest impact on the legs since it’s harder for the blood to flow upwards from the feet to the heart. When the blood can’t circulate, blood can collect in the legs which can produce a tired and heavy sensation. This is why people with underlying conditions that cause poor circulation, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis, often suffer from swollen, tired legs and ankles at the end of the day. Another cause of tired, heavy legs is varicose veins and this condition is also related to poor circulation. Varicose veins are a fairly common ailment—about 30% of the population have them. They occur when small, superficial veins lose their elasticity and start to pool blood, resulting in enlarged, twisted, knotty veins that protrude from the skin. While usually benign, varicose vein cases may still result in leg tenderness, heaviness and pain after walking or standing. Sore feet and legs can also be caused by a host of other underlying medical conditions. For example, low levels of potassium in the blood, often caused by other conditions or prescription medications, can cause tired, heavy legs. Pregnancy, obesity and even smoking can also exacerbate foot soreness and leg fatigue issues. It’s important to consult your doctor to ensure there isn’t a serious underlying medical reason for your tired legs and sore feet that may require medical treatment. However, most leg and feet heaviness and fatigue can be resolved with a few, simple lifestyle changes and treatments you can do at home.

Movement & Exercise

Obviously, if you’re generally sedentary, getting up and moving will go a long way to relieve achy, tired legs. Your muscles weaken after prolonged inactivity. And when your muscles are weak, you’re more likely to suffer muscle soreness from simple, everyday activities. Staying active will stimulate blood flow to muscle tissue, keeping it healthy. Some people have the opposite problem. Save for an injury, tired legs and sore feet of highly active individuals are frequently caused by overworking the muscles.  If you’re overusing your legs and feet, make sure to allow the body time to adequately rest. Without proper rest, the leg muscles can’t fully recover. Also, regardless of activity level, stretching adequately before any physical activity will help prevent that uncomfortable tired-leg feeling. Besides generally staying active, there are also specific exercises that can help relieve tired legs. Stretching the quads is very important because the quad muscle is so large. When the quad gets fatigued, the entire leg feels fatigued. A quad stretch will relieve some of that tension. Simply hold onto a chair or counter, stand on one foot and grab the other foot behind you, gently stretching the front of the leg. Maintain the stretch for 30 seconds, then switch legs. Repeat two more times. For the lower leg, calf stretches can be helpful. Simply hold onto the back of a chair for balance, raise up onto your toes (the balls of the feet) and remain in that position for a few seconds. Then lower your heels to the ground and repeat.

Lifestyle Changes

There are a few lifestyle changes that can help improve the feeling of tired, heavy legs and tender feet. For example, if you’re overweight, losing a few pounds can reduce the pressure on the legs and may help to relieve leg tiredness. Also, overconsuming salt leads to fluid retention and swelling that can cause sore feet and legs. Cutting down on salt intake can reduce fluid retention and swelling. Finally, make sure you’re drinking lots of water. Dehydration can lead to cramping and discomfort in the legs and feet.

Circulation Support

After a long day of constant activity or continual standing, blood pools in the lower legs, causing discomfort. Compression socks are a great tool for tired leg sufferers because they improve circulation by gently squeezing stretched vein walls and restoring blood flow back to the heart. Another activity which has a marked negative impact on circulation is smoking. How? The nicotine in cigarettes decreases the flow of blood and causes blood vessels to tighten, making it more difficult to circulate. So, quitting smoking may also offer some relief from achy, painful legs and feet because it will improve your circulation.

Footlogix® Treatment for Tired Legs and Sore Feet

Even if you stay active, regularly do exercises focused on leg and foot comfort and are proactive about your circulatory health, you still may suffer from sore legs and feet. That’s when additional treatments from Footlogix® can help. The Footlogix® Specialty Solutions line includes the Footlogix® Tired Leg Formula. This distinctive product is specially formulated with vasoactive properties to support micro-circulation and greatly improve the feeling of tired, heavy legs and feet. The specialized solution contains unique ingredients, such as urea to lock in moisture; horse chestnut to promote normal tone in the walls of veins and reduce edema; and witch hazel, which acts as an anti-inflammatory and reduces swelling. In fact, the Footlogix® Tired Leg Formula is so effective at treating tired legs and feet that it is a popular treatment recommended by podiatrists for chronic venous insufficiency and varicose veins. Footlogix® Tired Leg Formula can be used as often as needed to soothe achy, heavy legs and sore feet. To apply, simply shake the can well and massage a walnut sized amount of the light, mousse formula into the legs and feet. The product is instantly cooling and refreshing. It is absorbed quickly and leaves no sticky residue, so clothes and shoes can be worn immediately after application. The Footlogix® Tired Leg Formula is highly recommended for wearers of compression socks or hosiery, as the ingredients won’t break down elastic fibers. Footlogix® products are unique in that the Footlogix® line of transformational foot care products contain state of the art ingredients and incorporate their advanced and patented Dermal Infusion Technology® (DIT) to deliver these key ingredients past the outer layer of the skin of the feet and deeply into the epidermis. In addition, all Footlogix® products create a protective barrier to protect the feet and lock in moisture, while still allowing the skin to transpire, and are perfectly safe for everyone, including diabetics, seniors, and anyone else who may be immune-compromised or just have sensitive skin.

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Facts About the People Who Can’t Walk...

The fact is that if you want to stay healthy, you need to exercise, and exercise is very important for human beings. when we noticed that a lot of people stop releasing very soon, Then we started researching what could be the reason behind it Then we concluded that those who did not go to hate their goals with preparation would get up too soon or their muscles would ache.

Believe me, you will be very happy to know that so many people quit exercising for no reason. But the only problem that arose was the fact that it was ready But one of the problems I saw most was that they didn’t count in time to prepare for the full. We should use shoes that fit our feet.

Why Daily Walk is important For our Health?

Running every day may have some health benefits. Studies show that running just 5 to 10 minutes of each day at an ordinary footstep may help to reduce your risk of death from heart attacks, strokes, and other common diseases. But the same analysis also shows that these benefits top off at 4.5 hours a week, meaning there’s no need to run for hours each day. Running is a high-impact workout and exercise can lead to injuries such as stress breakage and shin splints. These health benefits seemed to be more significant in people with longer training sessions.

However, running too much, too intensely, or incorrectly can have negative health effects. If you increase the daily habit of walking, your illnesses, stress, and the possibility of seeing a doctor will decrease, is not it worth it to try? We have listed the benefits of walking to treat the problems that people mostly complain about most, such as blood pressure, cholesterol, overweight, and insulin resistance. In the event that walking is the most important thing that doctors suggest to those who are going through the surgery because of heart problems, why not take a regular walk before getting heart disease? For all physicians, that is, one of the most important benefits of walking is to reduce the risk of getting heart disease.

Why Nike’s Shoes are best for runners?

Nike is sold about 780 million product items of footwear, clothes, and sports equipment running shoes. These are used as deliberate to be the shoes for every runner for every day in the thousands of stores all over the world for every single year. The footwear of the Nike brand is mainly manufactured from Vietnam, China, Indonesia, and a large number of Nike shoes are manufactured in the USA. The Nike company sells $24.3 billion of footwear in a year. Nike is still on No.1 in all over the world sneakers market.

Nike shoes are the most unusual running shoe brands all over the world. These are less weighted, therefore more Suitable or Comfortable for the players. As we know the new trend in shoe Stability is less interference, or infinity of running follows that Rule by Providing Support, Consolation, and an Untroubled ride without any Blunder in your Natural movement.

It has a Soft Step in feel but Strong response, and the rocker-shaped sole helps you glide through your Step. The Running shoes aren’t hard to come by, But as fashion catches up with technical unprecedented, a few designs have come out that look the part, carry out well enough for a platform top spot, and offer an expansive more running experience. Not you’re just taking to the enamel or you’re having an experience of a marathon, our vision has something modern to outfit every type for a runner.

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5 tips to stay on track with your fitness goals

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Pool Fitness Ideas

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Teenage Fitness Ideas

But these few tips that helped. A power-lifter will define fitness in terms of our effort aimed at burning fat you would need cardio fitness equipment. An individual that is tailored to fit your needs perfectly. Choosing one too hard, or that of an exercise, gets so fatigued that the quality of our favorite Portable Fitness Equipment, a Power Push ups, Power Jumpers, Vertical Jumpers and Power Wheels all add more challenge to the health of your family's day. Some shows will allow you and has a very good level of fitness.

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‘Shes good, but shes big’: my years as a ‘fat’ ballerina

Olivia Campbell on reconciling the dimensions of the her geniu and the dimensions of the their own bodies, and how giving up can be an play of self-preservation I could’ve been a professional ballet dancer. At least, this is the lie I tell myself, how I am able to face my thoughtfulnes in the reflect every day without collapsing into a puddle of regret. After spending a year at a move conservatory in London, I cease. A years later, I tried again at colleges and universities in my home district of Virginia. But two years in, I violated my paw and decided to switch to a major that was less confined to my physical coherence: journalism. Soon, I became the arts journalist of the school article. Now, 10 years after move away from college, I have three beautiful sons and a successful freelance writing vocation. But the facts of the case that I quit before I had the chance to see if I could genuinely supplant haunts me to this day. tk I struggle to articulate this degree of know-how when explaining my background to parties. I “trained to be a professional dancer”; I was a “semi-professional dancer”; I” studied move in college and used to school ballet first-class “. When you bring up past hop suffer, most people usurp it was merely a little girl’s daydream, but for me, it was so much more. What do you call it when you dedicate all of your time and vigour to preparing for something but don’t ever become that something? What’s the name for not being strong enough to danger default so you quit while you’re ahead and live the rest of their own lives comforting yourself with the notion that you might have” concluded it” if only you’d certainly tried? Isn’t that it’s own special, uniquely destroying sort of los? Our culture fetishizes resolution, grit, success. We are told again and again that hard work will eventually be paid by, that discontinuing is almost unforgivable. What we don’t hear is that success isn’t definitely synonymous with gaiety and that giving up can be an deed of self-preservation. tk It is spring in New York City and I am 16. My dance teacher has driven me and one other student up so we could got a few surmount categorizes at various colleges and studios around city and so that I could audition for a region at the Joffrey Ballet School. It is my first tour to New York and I am instantly intoxicated by the risky compounding of the city’s force and a newfound appreciation of democracy. I taste my first Indian meat, buy chunky pleather platform loafers, do ballet constitutes for photos next to the rocks in Central Park. This Joffrey studio is much smaller and much dimmer than I guessed; it’s not much more than a couple of grocery-store aisles broad. As a young dancer in a insignificant college town, I had contemplated a vast, sun-filled thing, but I underestimated how strapped for seat metropolitans are. The bad part of any audition is always before it starts. That’s when they are able to psych yourself out. I pull at my itchy pink tightens and readjust the leg gaps of my pitch-black leotard. While warming up, I try to avoid my reflection in the mirror, but also keep an eye out for the coveted “skinny mirror” that each studio retains. It helps that none of the other girls here are auditioning; the objective is students and I am precisely a guest in the class. Can a thicker graze not attain just as beautiful motions? I am apprehensive but unintimidated. I know how to do this. I’ve got this. I’m in my component. The class goes well. Genuinely well. I recollect all of the compoundings, recollect to smile. I am industrious and immediate on my paws. Most importantly, I can keep up with the other students. After class, I excitedly pate to the changing room, surprised to hear how well I did and hopeful of my possibilities at being accepted into the school. I think about how, if acknowledged, I would leave home and live in a dorm at the Carmelite nuns’ convent. ” She’s good, but she’s big ,” I overhear the instructor say to my jig educator as I am coming back down the hallway. I stop in my roads, trying to process this observation without weeping or letting on that I hear. But in that instant, my spirit is humiliated. So numerous ponders swirl through my heading on the rest of our tour. I can’t believe that the wrongness of my body’s influence carries more weight than my ability to move it precise and artfully through room. I can’t believe that a skinnier, potentially less-talented dancer would get “my” blot at the school. But most of all, I can’t believe how embarrassing and utterly humiliating it feels to be turned away not because I’m not good enough, but because I’m not skinny enough. These reflects eventually coalesce into disorder, interrogates. Why had I been consecrated with these abilities in this torso? What does it intend when your form is your skill? Can a thicker touch not build just as beautiful motions? tk I attained late to dance. Later than most anyway. I am 11 years old when I make my first class – it’s a free class being offered on the stage of the little community theater in my small-scale college municipality- but my natural aptitude instantly was clear. As a naturally quiet, introverted person, dancing is a disclosure. I don’t have to speak a word to anyone. I discover a world beyond words, where gestures tell fibs in ways that commands exclusively ever dream of doing. It’s a nature where texts themselves grow superfluous and seem nearly perversely naive, and I am overjoyed to colonize it every day. Soon, I am trained for two to four hours a day. Homeschooling entails I can be driven to studios an hour from my house to take castes multiple times a week with more advanced professors. Finally, I am living with other kinfolks or my dance teacher during the week so I can teach at the best institution of the states of the region. Summertimes are wasted at ballet “intensives”, which implies six weeks away from home, living in dormitories, taking class all day at the Washington Ballet and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. I am getting better and better. I revel in my they are able to equilibrium en pointe eternally and swerve with ease. I once did five rotations in a single pirouette deviate. Five. The conventional maximum for women is three. It’s a moment I will never forget. But when you discover the word “ballerina”, my organization is not what your mind’s eye conjures. When puberty strikes at 15, weight begins to stick to me. I begin to sport fleshy hips, beefy thighs, a bloom chest. I’m not overweight amongst “regular” parties- I wear a women’s length 8- but I am overweight for a ballerina. In this profession, rarely is anyone big than a length 4. Ballerinas are supposed to be beyond human: to rekindle unearthly, otherworldly beings that toe the line between the erotic and the virginal. To have noticeable hearts and trendies is to interrupt this delusion with grotesque sexuality, to prompt the public that you are indeed human. After that audition, I begin to doubt my abilities, theme my chances of one day becoming a professional dancer. From then on, I never attend exactly what I miss in the mirror. Mirrors are unavoidable for most dancers, treating the walls of nearly every studio. I deplete hours in front of them every day. I like the lines I discover manifested, the determines I can deform into, how I can resemble the two movements of school teachers with relative informality. What the mirror likewise presents me now are my birthing trendies and ponderous tit, the wiggly parts of flesh drop from my upper arms. Now when I recognize all my fellow dancers reflected in the mirror around me, I accompany not how symmetrical our pushes are, but how their modest formulates amplify the generousness of my own. tk ” Are you sure you’re a ballet dancer ,” the orthopedic surgeon requested at a consultation for prolonged pain in the joint of my right big toe.” Because you examine more like a modern dancer .” I am 17 years old. And after touring a dozen doctors in my small hometown- braving distressing cortisone shots that provided no easing- we drove two hours to see this doctor because he is the company doctor for a big regional ballet troupe. His observe leaves me mortified, scrambling for an answer. I’m pretty sure the doctor believes my grief is the result of the “excess” load I am putting on my feet, but for sure, his scans uncover a tendon fraying and scratching in between the bones of my joint. I did try modern disco afterward, when I was in college. While it is a more freeing formation of jig- less strict, significantly more pardon of differing person types- I candidly wasn’t very good at it. At clas in London, I was placed under the highest level of ballet and the lowest of modern. The summer after that subduing Joffrey audition, I am sent to stay at my grandparents’ horse farm an hour outside of New Orleans without the rest of my immediate household. It’s partly meant to be a punishment for get caught kissing a boy while really shy of the pre-appointed old-enough age of 16. But no parental punishment was worse than what I could impose upon myself. Not for kissing boys, subconsciou you- that was recreation- but for being fat. To drown out the hum of the treadmill, I turn up the neighbourhood alternative stone radio station on my cassette Walkman. The psalm is White Town’s I Could Never Be Your Woman. It peculiarity heavily in the rotation this summer. I haven’t lived enough to appreciate what the lyrics are showing, but the song’s creepy, recited desist specters me. I keep running. The air conditioning conflicts to counteract the smother humidity. Some people say the breeze is “close” but it experiences more like mood is trying to slowly suffocate you by gradually replacing the aura with sea. Better stretch gills or falter and die. I run for an hour every day, pushing the inclination button higher and higher, pushing the quicken button time and again. Through the sweat and the muscle aches. I stop only when I get so dizzy I obsess I might pass out and precipitate. I run away from my fatten, away from the opportunities offered by lack. I pass and I guide but I never get where I want to go. I promptly discover that trying to induce my own puking is much very harrowing and difficult. My grandmother presents lovingly prepared, home-cooked southern meat- fried eggs and meat-and-potato hash, beautiful pies- but I eat only one meal a day and refuse the residual. I enjoy hash; it’s something we never eat at home. It’s a salty, fluffy, greasy southern self-indulgence like no other. I’ve never refused her cook before, but if my grandmother smells something is amiss, she doesn’t mention it. Outside of my mother’s watchful eye, I try my hand at bulimia. I speedily discover that trying to induce my own puking is much more traumatic and difficult. So instead, I down excessive amounts of milk of magnesia laxative. Nothing I try have contributed to much in accordance with the rules of weight loss, primarily because I am plainly messing with my metabolism. When I start eating a healthy sum of menu and stop mistreating laxatives, I gave the weight right back on. tk The sweetest revenge, the best way to prove all of the doubters and haters incorrect, would’ve been to go on to be wildly successful. Our culture is very clear that overcoming your shortcomings to rise victorious is no other acceptable purposing to such legends. But years of sounding how inappropriate my person was make its fee. It’s hard to affection an prowes chassis that everyone is telling you doesn’t love you back. It becomes too difficult to agree your physical expertise with your physical inadequacy. I’ve primarily stopped bringing up my hop background to brand-new relationships. Not because it’s so far in the past or even because I don’t know how to define my own experience, but because I know that when I reply I was a ballet dancer, I am certain that person instantly judges my mas and wonders what kind of fantasyland I once lived in. “Ballet” has already become my initiation parole. Talking about it exhausts the hounds of self-loathing and subduing dejection, who snipped determinedly at my ankles. I left the world of disco for the world of words because the pen life doesn’t care if I divulge my paw. I figured if I couldn’t dancing, at least I could write about it. I concluded that since my torso isn’t center to the art of journalism, the draft macrocosm shouldn’t care if I am 150 pounds or 250 pounds. I know now that there are no manufactures, virtually no openings where women’s people aren’t judged. Yet writing, while still a innovative following, does not feed my spirit in the same route that jig- the world beyond words- does. I haven’t seen the inside of a disco studio in about eight years. Every period that I don’t move, a sliver of my feeling droops. My mind throbs to move again, to get lost in myself, to get lost in music, in motion, in space; to marks those familiar decorations and figures that still happen so easily to me as I revolve safe in my kitchen. I crave much better. I want to be in a real studio with my peers; on a real place. I want to know what it would have been like if I’d restrained departing, remained propagandizing back at the haters. I can’t help but appear jealous of the adults I realise talking about taking up ballet or re-entering the studio again for the first time since they were young. I envy that unadulterated, uncomplicated euphorium that jig can bring; it’s something I dread I’ll never feel again. I can’t simply waltz into a dancing studio and take a class. If purely mentioning frolic to person spurs a rush of shortage and flop, who knows what actually taking a class might uncover within me. Besides, I am not like them. I am not one of those people who simply made a few ballet categorizes in middle school. I could have been a professional. I got too close, so it hurts too much. It’s been a long road, but my body and I have come to a detente. I’m now a happy width 12: satisfied by the knowledge that my body- whether in spite of or because of its width- has performed excellent pirouettes and birthed beautiful babes. But coming to calls with my torso doesn’t mean I definitely forgive it for deluding me; that I’ll ever stop wished to know whether I might have spent my life onstage had I simply been a bit lighter. Olivia Campbell is a reporter and essayist were engaged in medication, mothering, artworks, and autobiography. 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Feeling guilty because your Horse is Overweight or got Laminitis?

GUILT….. Do you ever find yourself consumed by guilt because your horse is battling laminitis? Or perhaps you worry that you’re not providing enough exercise, constantly questioning if your efforts are truly making a difference? Fearing the worst case scenario Believe me, I’ve been there. I understand the overwhelming sense of isolation, fear, and guilt that comes with seeing your beloved…

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Will Excess Weight Loss Tablets Help Males Lose Excess Weight?

Most times аre lіkе each other, but thіs 1 working day сan make a large distinction. It іѕ appraisal time. It іѕ nоt аbоut now, but the previous. The function уou'vе carried out іn the past will depend on the long term. And іt іs а game wіth two gamers. I dоn't apologize fоr that - thеsе аre scary statistics. However, іn thіs day аnd age, thankfully, thеre аre options for those wishing to both lose excess weight, get match, or lead a far healthier time warner cable.

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Fantasy football scout tips game week 32: Dele Alli, Leroy Sane, Ben Gibson and more

The game weeks preserve coming thick and fast, meaning masses of fantasy football factors for managers who are paying close attention.

Two of our six selections scored final timeout, Jamie Vardy and Divock Origi making appropriate on our promise, but Alexis Sanchez let us down.

Our protective selections were disappointing too, with neither Andrew Robertson or Ben Davies earning themselves a clean sheet, however optimistically a number of you spotted our connection with Harry Maguire’s aerial threat and acted on it.

So, looking beforehand to game week 31, who’re the first-rate potentialities and the way a lot of them are for your crew?

Dele Alli

It’s turning into harder and harder to ignore Dele Alli, who has taken the mantle of being Tottenham’s most constant attacking presence in view that Harry Kane’s damage.

An aim and help late on towards Swansea made it 5 returns within the final 5 game weeks, including four desires from midfield. Alli is turning into crucial, especially with Watford at domestic this weekend.

Leroy Sane

In case your price range will now not pretty stretch to Alli, you may recollect Leroy Sane, who has regarded promising for Manchester Metropolis.

The teenager blinked at Chelsea but scored at Arsenal, and the go to of relegation-threatened Hull this weekend affords a chance for extra dreams, on paper as a minimum.

Sane works as a longer-time period option too, with Town playing a run in opposition to a number of the top flight’s lesser lights after the Manchester derby.

Tips To Clean Your Football Boots

Have you acquired a pair of soccer boots? If so, you ought to take the proper steps to clean them or they may no longer stand the take a look at of time. We’ve prepared a few recommendations to help you smooth your boots the right way. Study on.

Step 1: After you have got come back domestic, loosen the laces and then put off the boots out of your toes. Now, preserve your boots and knock them with each different to remove the unfastened mud. Use a stiff brush to comb the sides of the boots.

Step 2: get a humid fabric and soak it in lukewarm water. Now, squeeze the cloth and then rub your boots with it to take away any mud from the footwear. some mud may be stuck within the tiny grooves. You may take away it with a toothbrush.

Step three: Get a vintage newspaper page and scrunch it up. Now, positioned it inner your boots earlier than you keep them for a long time period.

This can help your boot stay within the same shape. Other than this, the newspaper also enables your boots to dry speedily because the paper will take in water. placed your boots in a safe and dry place so they don’t take much time to dry completely.

Step 4: Once your boots are dry, You could use a petrol jelly or Vaseline to grease the studs. Every other gain of the petroleum jelly is that it’ll keep the studs from rust increasing the lifespan of your footwear.

Step 5: to keep the color of your football boots, you should make it a dependency to polish them on an ordinary foundation. After 24 hours, You may observe herbal leather oil to your boots to save the leather-based from water damage.

Some Dos and don’ts

A few human beings kick their boots on the heel. Whilst that is tempting, you ought to by no means do it as it can cause some extreme damage.

By no means use a twine brush for your boots as it’s miles too harsh. As an alternative, you must use a brush crafted from a natural, soft fabric.

For cleaning your cleats, don’t use a cleaning agent that includes harsh chemical compounds. The pleasant concept is to apply lukewarm water and a clean piece of clothing.

Placing your cleats close to the radiator for quicker drying isn’t advocated either. Doing so will stiffen your cleats making them weaker.

Overuse of jelly at the studs isn’t always a great concept both as it can loosen the studs or reduce down on the friction.

After each use, you ought to wash your cleats. This is a superb addition. Except, don’t discard your old toothbrushes. As a substitute, hold them somewhere in your private home and then use them for cleansing your football cleats

Every Body in the Game! Make Moves for Good Health

The primary month of the yr represents new beginnings and one of the things that parents put on the list in January is to lose weight. In reality, this is something maximum Americans want to do. In step with the Center for Ailment Control, 70% of adults age 20 and older are obese, inclusive of those which can be obese. Those stats are costly. The financial effect of being overweight can have an effect on income. People who are obese generally tend to have better fees of absenteeism, decrease productiveness and higher scientific charges. Even though this health situation influences folks from coast to coast, it’s an especially weighty rely in Southern states, which have been categorized the “obesity belt.” All of us want to observe it and take note that children version the conduct they see.

Former First Girl Michelle Obama helped put adolescence obesity on the radar.

Which will aid mother and father, infant care providers and kids in struggling with this bulge, she centered on more healthy consuming more fruits and vegetables, established a garden on the White House for domestic-grown produce, promoted staying hydrated with water and were given children transferring. The Let’s Circulate! Campaign initiative centered on placing the table to raise a generation of healthier youngsters. Youth sporting an excessive amount of weight can face some of the same health problems that we see in adults-propensity to develop coronary heart Disease, Type 2 diabetes, allergies, sleep apnea, poor body image and low

It is no wonder that adolescence weight problems have been creeping up. These days many youngsters do no longer stroll to high school, snack-time has ballooned from one snack to a mean of 3 each day and era has given upward thrust to sedentary amusement. Among the Pc, phone, Recreation Boy and video gaming it may be hard to get the ones younger our bodies shifting. That is where the adults must emerge as actively involved. Right here are a few clean recommendations of behavior you may undertake and encourage the young human beings in your own family circle to attempt.

Dove Hunting – Tips on Picking a Good Spot in the Field

  Who hasn’t achieved it, proven up for a large dove hunt and placed yourself in an awful spot? It is without a doubt miserable to pay attention to all the blasting around you as you contemplate everything from shifting spots to what you did to deserve this. The best bullets, most expensive shotgun and a pleasant trained dog cannot make up for selecting a bad spot while dove hunting. Permits examine how we are able to prevent singing the ‘no dove blues’.

First, we can take a look at the three primary approaches to get a great spot whilst dove looking and then we’re going to break down what to look for when scouting.

Scout the sphere: In case you do not have a 6th experience like my dad does,

Then it’s going to pay to do some scouting earlier than you show up for the hunt. You could analyze lots about the dove in only one afternoon. Be aware of their flight patterns, the sun, and the time they begin to fly. Pick some spots that look promising, just in case someone beats you in your first choice.

Early cook gets the trojan horse: And the early hunter gets the spot and the birds. It’s sincerely no longer a very good plan to scout out your spot and are available driving up too late to get it. Without a doubt, If you’ve picked a decent spot it may not ultimate lengthy. Whether or not you’re looking the morning hunt or afternoon, do not dally, get to the field, take your spot and prepare to be the one making all and sundry else jealous.

Be still: In case you’re new to dove looking, then you definitely probably

Haven’t witnessed a couple of incoming doves smash into evasive maneuvers on the slightest motion by using you. After a dove has been shot at more than one times or, as Tim Lilley from

& Fish calls it, educated, they come to be very jumpy and will trade direction on any ground movement. This may be devastating to even the quality spot. Professional dove hunter, Will Jester, thinks that being nonetheless and maintaining your canine still is extra critical than the fanciest camo You can buy. Sure, you’ll want to wear a few camo however If you are leaping as much as shoot way too early the camo might not help.

The ones are the basic steps to getting a good spot to hunt. Now Permit’s have a look at what definitely search for whilst scouting or looking at a subject for the first time.

The solar: Get your bearings and parent out east from west and then position yourself with the sun at your returned. The solar can sincerely restrict your capability to spot dove a good deal less shoot dove. If having it at your returned isn’t always possible try to face where it is not directly on your eyes.

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Martial Arts in San Diego is not all about punching and kicking harder

Martial Arts Classes in San Diego is not all about punching and kicking harder… Nutrition plays a big part in your martial arts training due to the stress one puts on their system during each training session at the dojo.

Often adults and parents think of martial arts as only for self-defense. However, if one was to step back analyze the exercises used during a martial arts classes one would quick realize karate was now of the first cross fit programs.  The exercises used as warm up at the James Martial Arts Academy are explosive plyometrics movements (e.g.; jump kicks, low horse stances with kicks)

In the following article by Efren Diosdado, he explains how childhood obesity is on the increase and how martial arts can help increase your child’s overall health and a fun way:

  Parents look to martial arts to fight childhood obesity

 Childhood obesity has quadrupled in the last 3o years, and the U.S. has the highest rate in the world. According to the Center for Disease Control, obesity now affects one in six children and adolescents in the United States.  Some parent’s solution to this is by putting their kids in martial arts.

But is martial arts the correct solution to child obesity?

It could be if parents go about it the right way.

Master Jason White, owner and instructor of the Iron Dragon, says kids benefit from martial arts by learning discipline and staying active. White incorporates a reward/punishment system. If his kids get straight A’s in school they get gift certificates. If they misbehave, they can’t do their belt test to move up in color.

“The idea is for them to have the same behavior in here, at school and at home,” White said. “So we develop ways to go about doing that.”

Master White says the kid’s classes run for about an hour. But students like Elektra Olivarez, who has trained over four years, have developed enough conditioning to handle more than one class a day.

The CDC, in consultation with many experts on child fitness, currently recommends 60 minutes per day of physical activity that includes activities to improve cardiovascular endurance, strength and bone health. See full post here...

At the James Martial Arts Academy, we incorporate high energy classes which will which will allow kids to learn effective self-defense in a fun and safe way and they do not realize the great workout their getting.

  As the previous article clearly illustrated the case for getting your child involved in some type of physical activity.  This Ted Talk by Matt Young great Ted Talk on childhood obesity provides statistics that this generation of children has a lower life expectancy than their parents.

    As a certified personal trainer, I able to provided our student nutrition plans and suggestions. When students want to improve their diet, I stress to them is replacing meals with a plant based ones.  I tell them not to go kamikaze, but to start off by replacing one meal then move to two meals.   This article by Dr. Michael Greger reinforces that a plant-based diet is healthier for adults and children.

And a benefit of this diet will improve mood, you will have less tension, anxiety, and fatigue.

Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity

We’ve known those eating plant-based diets tend to have healthier mood states—less tension, anxiety, depression, anger, hostility, and fatigue—but we couldn’t tell if it was cause and effect until it was put it to the test, which researchers finally did. What could account for such rapid results?

Eating a vegetarian diet gives you a better antioxidant status, which may help with depression, as I discussed in Antioxidants and Depression. Also, as I previously addressed in A Better Way to Boost Serotonin, consumption of even a single carbohydrate-rich meal can improve depression, tension, anger, confusion, sadness, fatigue, alertness, and calmness scores among patients with premenstrual syndrome. But what about long term?

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Overweight men and women were randomized into two groups: one following a low-carb, high-fat diet and the other following a high-carb, low-fat diet for a year. By the end of the study, who had less depression, anxiety, anger, hostility, feelings of dejection, tension, fatigue, confusion, fewer mood disturbances, and better vigor?

“The sustained improvements in mood in the LF [low-fat] group compared with the LC [low-carb] group are consistent with results from epidemiological studies showing that diets high in carbohydrate and low in fat and protein are associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression and have beneficial effects on psychological well-being.”

The overall amount of fat in the research subjects’ diet didn’t change significantly, though. But the type of fat did. Their arachidonic acid intake fell to zero. Arachidonic acid is an inflammatory omega-6 fatty acid that can adversely affect mental health via a “cascade of neuroinflammation”—that is, it may inflame your brain.

High levels of arachidonic acid in the bloodstream have been associated with a greater likelihood of suicidal risk and major depressive episodes, for example. How can we stay away from the stuff? Americans are exposed to arachidonic acid primarily through chicken and eggs. So, when we remove eggs, chicken, and other meat we eliminate preformed arachidonic acid from our diet.

Although high-quality treatment studies examining diet’s impact on depression are scarce, there was the successful two-week trial discussed earlier and, even better, a twenty-two-week study. Overweight or diabetic employees of a major insurance corporation received either weekly group instruction on a whole food, plant-based diet or no diet instruction for five and one-half months.

There was no portion size restriction, no calorie counting, no carb counting, and no change in exercise. No meals were provided, but the company cafeteria did start offering daily plant-based options such as lentil soup, minestrone, and bean burritos.

Participants ate no meat, eggs, dairy, oil, or junk, yet they reported greater diet satisfaction compared with the control group participants who had no diet restrictions. More participants in the plant-based intervention group reported improved digestion, increased energy, and better sleep than usual at week 22 compared with the control group.

They also reported a significant improvement in physical functioning, general health, vitality, and mental health. The plant-based group beat out controls on nearly every measure. Read the complete article here…

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Why Eat Like a Vegetarian

Martial Artist needs Proper Nutrition

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Martial Arts in San Diego is not all about punching and kicking harder

Martial Arts Classes in San Diego is not all about punching and kicking harder… Nutrition plays a big part in your martial arts training due to the stress one puts on their system during each training session at the dojo.

Often adults and parents think of martial arts as only for self-defense. However, if one was to step back analyze the exercises used during a martial arts classes one would quick realize karate was now of the first cross fit programs.  The exercises used as warm up at the James Martial Arts Academy are explosive plyometrics movements (e.g.; jump kicks, low horse stances with kicks)

In the following article by Efren Diosdado, he explains how childhood obesity is on the increase and how martial arts can help increase your child’s overall health and a fun way:

  Parents look to martial arts to fight childhood obesity

 Childhood obesity has quadrupled in the last 3o years, and the U.S. has the highest rate in the world. According to the Center for Disease Control, obesity now affects one in six children and adolescents in the United States.  Some parent’s solution to this is by putting their kids in martial arts.

But is martial arts the correct solution to child obesity?

It could be if parents go about it the right way.

Master Jason White, owner and instructor of the Iron Dragon, says kids benefit from martial arts by learning discipline and staying active. White incorporates a reward/punishment system. If his kids get straight A’s in school they get gift certificates. If they misbehave, they can’t do their belt test to move up in color.

“The idea is for them to have the same behavior in here, at school and at home,” White said. “So we develop ways to go about doing that.”

Master White says the kid’s classes run for about an hour. But students like Elektra Olivarez, who has trained over four years, have developed enough conditioning to handle more than one class a day.

The CDC, in consultation with many experts on child fitness, currently recommends 60 minutes per day of physical activity that includes activities to improve cardiovascular endurance, strength and bone health. See full post here...

At the James Martial Arts Academy, we incorporate high energy classes which will which will allow kids to learn effective self-defense in a fun and safe way and they do not realize the great workout their getting.

  As the previous article clearly illustrated the case for getting your child involved in some type of physical activity.  This Ted Talk by Matt Young great Ted Talk on childhood obesity provides statistics that this generation of children has a lower life expectancy than their parents.

    As a certified personal trainer, I able to provided our student nutrition plans and suggestions. When students want to improve their diet, I stress to them is replacing meals with a plant based ones.  I tell them not to go kamikaze, but to start off by replacing one meal then move to two meals.   This article by Dr. Michael Greger reinforces that a plant-based diet is healthier for adults and children.

And a benefit of this diet will improve mood, you will have less tension, anxiety, and fatigue.

Plant-Based Diets for Improved Mood and Productivity

We’ve known those eating plant-based diets tend to have healthier mood states—less tension, anxiety, depression, anger, hostility, and fatigue—but we couldn’t tell if it was cause and effect until it was put it to the test, which researchers finally did. What could account for such rapid results?

Eating a vegetarian diet gives you a better antioxidant status, which may help with depression, as I discussed in Antioxidants and Depression. Also, as I previously addressed in A Better Way to Boost Serotonin, consumption of even a single carbohydrate-rich meal can improve depression, tension, anger, confusion, sadness, fatigue, alertness, and calmness scores among patients with premenstrual syndrome. But what about long term?

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Overweight men and women were randomized into two groups: one following a low-carb, high-fat diet and the other following a high-carb, low-fat diet for a year. By the end of the study, who had less depression, anxiety, anger, hostility, feelings of dejection, tension, fatigue, confusion, fewer mood disturbances, and better vigor?

“The sustained improvements in mood in the LF [low-fat] group compared with the LC [low-carb] group are consistent with results from epidemiological studies showing that diets high in carbohydrate and low in fat and protein are associated with lower levels of anxiety and depression and have beneficial effects on psychological well-being.”

The overall amount of fat in the research subjects’ diet didn’t change significantly, though. But the type of fat did. Their arachidonic acid intake fell to zero. Arachidonic acid is an inflammatory omega-6 fatty acid that can adversely affect mental health via a “cascade of neuroinflammation”—that is, it may inflame your brain.

High levels of arachidonic acid in the bloodstream have been associated with a greater likelihood of suicidal risk and major depressive episodes, for example. How can we stay away from the stuff? Americans are exposed to arachidonic acid primarily through chicken and eggs. So, when we remove eggs, chicken, and other meat we eliminate preformed arachidonic acid from our diet.

Although high-quality treatment studies examining diet’s impact on depression are scarce, there was the successful two-week trial discussed earlier and, even better, a twenty-two-week study. Overweight or diabetic employees of a major insurance corporation received either weekly group instruction on a whole food, plant-based diet or no diet instruction for five and one-half months.

There was no portion size restriction, no calorie counting, no carb counting, and no change in exercise. No meals were provided, but the company cafeteria did start offering daily plant-based options such as lentil soup, minestrone, and bean burritos.

Participants ate no meat, eggs, dairy, oil, or junk, yet they reported greater diet satisfaction compared with the control group participants who had no diet restrictions. More participants in the plant-based intervention group reported improved digestion, increased energy, and better sleep than usual at week 22 compared with the control group.

They also reported a significant improvement in physical functioning, general health, vitality, and mental health. The plant-based group beat out controls on nearly every measure. Read the complete article here…

Recommended Resources:

Why Eat Like a Vegetarian

Martial Artist needs Proper Nutrition

Child Should Learn Martial Arts San Diego

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Exercise Training Plan for the Recovering Laminitic Horse

When your horse foundered and is recovering you've probably got advice from your vet: exercise your horse more, get him fit and put him on a (restrictive) diet. Where to find an Exercise plan? Can you make one? Yes, you can!

When your horse foundered and is recovering you’ve probably got advice from your vet: exercise your horse more, get him fit and put him on a (restrictive) diet. When you’re a clicker trainer you might not want to lunge or round pen your horse and riding isn’t yet an option. Or, you have a non ridden horse, that you need to get in shape. The first step is to create a tailored exercise plan for…

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Move Your Horse with Positive Reinforcement!

The 2024 program starts in May 2024. Enrollment is OPEN!Here is what the program looks like and what the 4 trimesters in the HippoLogic Clicker Training Academy offer. We learn by repetition and every time we’ll go through the basics, you’ll learn more, see more and understand more. Each level in your education will have it’s own challenges: the more you know, the more you’ll understand that…

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Lack of Time to Train your Horse...

Read this when you don't have enough time to exercise your horse

Many people struggle with having enough time to exercise their horses. I’have a Facebook support group for Overweight Horses and many people told me that time is their biggest struggle. Also in my other FB group (HippoLogic Clicker Training Horses) people struggle with a lack of time. Step 1: What is the real problem? As a clicker coach I notice that everyone has the same amount of time (24…