Enrollment Begins 10am Pacific on: May 1st, 2025 and Ends: May 15th, 2025 at Midnight
Canine Interval Training is designed around play-based High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT). We will mix short bursts of intense activity with recovery time to help dogs build muscle, endurance, speed and power!
Canine Interval Training is a powerful addition to any well-rounded canine conditioning program—building strength, stamina, and focus in ways that complement strength work, mobility, and sport-specific drills.
Is This Class Right For You?
▶ All dogs who need a structured outlet
▶ Dogs who need endurance training
▶ Puppies or teens with all that zoom energy
▶ Dogs who love play but need better focus
▶ Owners who want to be active with their pup
▶ Handlers looking for more variety in canine fitness
▶Ideal for dogs 6 months+
(Reactive or shy pups? No problem, this class is online and you can do it from home)
Why Take This Class?
❖ Build Explosive Power -
Interval drills (like sprints, tug bursts, or hill climbs) mirror the short, intense efforts needed in competition—helping dogs explode off the line, drive through obstacles, or launch off docks with more power.
❖ Improves Mental Focus Under Pressure - By pairing movement with obedience or impulse control drills (e.g., play → down → play), interval training helps sport dogs
learn to switch between arousal and focus—crucial for ring performance.
❖ Enhances Body Awareness & Coordination - Incorporating core, balance, and low-impact intervals improves how a dog moves, lands, and turns. This helps prevent sloppy movement and improves their use of rear-end muscles and stabilizers.
❖ Reduces Risk of Injury -
Regular strength + stability work in short, repeatable intervals builds the muscles that protect joints and ligaments. Dogs learn better mechanics while moving and recovering.
❖ Increases Cardiovascular Conditioning -
Structured work-rest cycles improve stamina and cardio without overworking the dog—helping them perform multiple runs or rounds at trials without gassing out.
❖ Mimics Competition Effort - Interval-style work mimics the demands of competition: short, fast effort → controlled rest → repeat. It teaches dogs to recover quickly between runs, just like they would during a trial day.
❖ Strengthens Handler-Dog Connection - Interval sessions often require teamwork, timing, and engagement. That means better communication, faster response to cues, and a deeper working relationship on and off the field.
Advantages of the Online Class
✔ Convenience of online learning
✔ More time to learn the material than in the traditional in person class format
✔ Work at your own pace in the convenience of your own home
✔ Access to material for as long as BLCC exists
What's Included?
Discussion Threads
◇ There will be discussion threads for workers to post their videos and auditors to ask questions
Format
◇ Each class is broken into lessons, with one or more lecture within each lesson (Canine Mindful Motion Intervals, Canine Focus + Fitness Intervals, Canine Balance + Core Intervals, Canine Ramp-Up Intervals, Canine Wag-Wind Intervals).
Start Date
◇ The class will start on May 15th and continue for 5 weeks.
Video
◇ Working students can submit up to 5 minutes of video per week for instructional review.
◇ Video review is done by screen-casting for a more personalized experience. Screen-casting is audio-visual feedback (the next best thing to 1:1 conversation)
Timeline
◇ The class is open for video submission, questions, review and comments for 90 days allowing you plenty of time to work through the material, take and edit video and formulate your questions as well as allow the instructor time to review and give feedback.
- access to material lasts for as long as BLCC exists.
The school reserves the right to modify, update, or remove this class at anytime.
What Level are the Exercises?
This course will have beginner to advanced exercises with most falling in the intermediate to advanced level. This class will focus specifically on the exercises taught and I will answer questions about the foundation behaviors needed but will not be teaching all the foundation movements (see suggested pre-requisites). Exercises can be adjusted to the fitness level of the dog.
Suggested Pre-requisites
☆ It would be helpful if your dog understood the basic foundation behaviors either on verbal or hand signal cue, using a target or a lured.
☆ Targeting skills are also handy to improve communication with your dog.
☆ You can train all of this as the exercises are offered in class and work toward the exercise as your dog has the skills needed.
Possible Equipment
Substitutions will be recommended if you do not have the equipment used in each video. You may purchase FitPaws equipment can be purchased HERE. Klimb is offering a discount as well. Information to get the discount will be available upon enrolling.
There are many possible equipment options using household items such as your couch cushions!
Training Methods
Variety of training methods can be used to obtain the proper movement or position - 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 may overlap or appear in other classes 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 for the Certified Canine Strength and Conditioning Coach Program
Certified Canine Fitness Trainer
Karen Pryor Academy Faculty
Bobbie owns and operates Pawsitive Performance which offers dog training, fitness training and trick training around the globe. Bobbie currently 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 Veterinary Medicine. She was also 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 the 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 sessions 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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