Beginning Canine Conditioning

Beginning Canine ConditioningBeginning Canine Conditioning is a six week canine conditioning course that will focus on strength, balance, body awareness, flexibility, and new skills for canine fitness. For six weeks, you will receive a complete workout every week, and a bonus lesson on using cavalettis for conditioning. The course is appropriate for adult dogs new to a conditioning program or returning to a conditioning program after being less active. The course will start out

Beginning Canine Conditioning is a six-week canine conditioning course that will focus on strength, balance, body awareness, flexibility, and new skills for canine fitness.

For six weeks, you will receive a complete workout every week, and a bonus lesson on using cavaletti’s for conditioning. The course is appropriate for adult dogs new to a conditioning program or returning to a conditioning program after being less active.

The course will start out with basic exercises, and progress to more challenging exercises over the six weeks. All participating dogs should be in good health, free from injury, or cleared by their veterinarian if they have had an injury.

The course is for adult dogs who have finished growing.

Prerequisites

An understanding of a marker/reward system.

The Canine Conditioning Foundations course, or the participants acknowledgement their dog knows the ten foundational skills of static stand, tuck sit, kickback stand, folding down, down to stand, nose target, give a paw, front foot target, independent back up and side step. The foundational skills will be used in the Beginning Canine Conditioning class but will not be covered specifically.