Webinar Registration November 5th 1st, 2026 -November 16th, 2026
[Webinar will be presented live on November 16th @3pm Pacific (6pm Eastern)]
Strong Before Breeding
Strong Through Pregnancy
Strong After Whelping
Are you a breeder who wants to give your girls the best possible foundation for a healthy pregnancy, whelping, and recovery?
Dogs Are Made to Move — Even During Pregnancy!
Pregnancy doesn't mean your dog needs to stop moving! In fact, maintaining appropriate physical activity throughout pregnancy can help support muscle strength, mobility, balance, and overall well-being as her body changes.
Think about it — pregnancy, whelping, and nursing place significant physical demands on a dog's body. Maintaining strength and conditioning before breeding and adapting exercise throughout pregnancy can help prepare her for those demands.
Why Take This Workshop?
➤ Build Strength for Pregnancy & Whelping: Learn how to improve your breeding dog's strength, fitness, and endurance to better handle the physical demands of pregnancy, whelping, and nursing while minimizing muscle loss.
➤ Maintain Fitness Throughout Pregnancy: Discover safe, effective exercises to help your dog maintain muscle strength, mobility, balance, and overall conditioning as her body changes.
➤ Support a Faster Return to Activity: Learn how a structured fitness program before, during, and after pregnancy can help your dog rebuild strength and return to normal activities or performance sports safely and efficiently.
➤ Condition the Stud Dog, Too! Understand why strength, flexibility, and overall fitness are just as important for maintaining the physical health and breeding readiness of your stud dog.
Who Should Participate?
This webinar is designed for anyone who wants to better understand how strength, conditioning, and appropriate exercise can support breeding dogs before, during, and after pregnancy.
➤ Breeders: Whether you're planning your first litter or have years of breeding experience, learn how to prepare your breeding dogs physically for pregnancy, whelping, and nursing while supporting muscle strength, mobility, and postpartum recovery.
➤ Canine Fitness Coaches: Expand your knowledge and learn how to design and modify fitness programs for breeding dogs. Whether you currently work with breeding dogs or want to add this specialty to your services, this workshop will help you better understand their changing physical needs.
➤ Dog Sport Competitors & Performance Dog Owners: Learn how to maintain appropriate conditioning throughout the breeding process and develop a plan to safely return your dog to training, competition, and normal activity after whelping.
➤ Veterinary & Canine Rehabilitation Professionals: Gain insight into fitness considerations for breeding dogs, including maintaining muscle condition, adapting exercise as pregnancy progresses, and supporting a gradual return to activity after delivery.
➤ Canine Fitness Enthusiasts: If you're passionate about canine movement, strength, injury prevention, and overall physical well-being, this workshop will expand your understanding of how fitness needs change throughout the reproductive cycle.
Continuing Education Opportunities
CSCC Continuing Education Credits
Participants seeking continuing education for their Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach (CSCC) certification can earn:
- all students: 2 hours of CEUs
Whether you're a breeder looking to support healthier, stronger breeding dogs or a canine fitness professional wanting to expand your expertise, this workshop will provide practical information you can apply to your own dogs or the dogs you work with.
Strong Before Breeding. Supported Through Pregnancy. Ready for Recovery.
WEBINAR PRESENTATION
Join Bobbie for a live, interactive webinar presented via Zoom and PowerPoint. You'll have the opportunity to ask questions during the live session and continue the conversation afterward in the online classroom.
DATE & TIME
Monday, November 16, 2026, at 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Please adjust the start time to your local time zone.
Can't attend live? No problem! The webinar will be recorded, and all registered participants will have access to the recording.
LIVE Q&A
Have questions? Join the live webinar to ask questions in real time. You can also submit questions afterward through the online classroom.
ADDITIONAL LEARNING RESOURCES
Following the webinar, supporting materials and additional resources will be uploaded to the online classroom for all registered participants to view and download.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
- Live Zoom webinar with PowerPoint presentation
- Interactive Q&A during the live session
- Access to the webinar recording
- Downloadable supporting materials
- Online classroom access for as long as the site exists
Please note: The school reserves the right to modify, update, or remove this class at any time.
Possible Equipment
FitPaws and Klimb (Blue-9) equipment can be purchased HERE.
▸ Mat / Targets
▸ Platforms of different sizes
▸ FitPaws Equip
In most cases you can substitute a stable object or a different balance prop if you don't have what was used in any photos or videos.
Training Methods -
A variety of training methods can be used to obtain the proper movement, position, or posture - shaping, luring, capturing, targeting and molding. These will be discussed and demonstrated in the video tutorials and through video review but every tiny step will not be demonstrated.
Disclaimer: Some information in this class/workshop may overlap or appear in other classes/workshops due to the foundation needed for many behaviors, tricks and fitness exercises. In addition, there are overlapping skills needed for many different performance activities so you may see exercises that are the same but packaged up differently toward a slightly different goal.
Bobbie Lyons, CSCC, CCFT, KPA CTP
Lead Instructor and Program Director - Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach Program
Certified Canine Fitness Trainer
Karen Pryor Academy Faculty
Bobbie owns and operates Pawsitive Performance LLC which offers dog training, fitness training, and trick training around the globe. Bobbie is the lead instructor and program director for the Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach program that is offered through North Carolina State University and North Carolina State University Veterinary Medicine. She was also a part of the TEAM that contributed knowledge and experience to design the CCFT II Live Lab and was a course instructor for the program. Bobbie completed the certification program for Canine Fitness through the Companion Animal Sciences Institute and she is a Certified Training Partner with Karen Pryor Academy.
Bobbie has 4 awesome dogs that train a variety of skills for agility, fitness training, trick training, tugging, and dock diving. Bobbie enjoys the training process and strives to communicate in the best way she can to help her dogs and clients dogs understand the task at hand. She starts every training session with this question "how can I set the dog up for success and give the dog the best information to successfully complete the behavior".
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