Enrollment Begins 10am Pacific on: September 1st, 2025 and Ends: September 15th, 2025 at Midnight
Improve Your Dog's Range of Motion - From Home, On Your Schedule
Want to help your dog move better, feel better, and perform better - without guessing what to do or risking injury?
This self-paced video-based course will walk you step-by-step through safe, effective stretches to improve your dog's flexion and extension - from neck to tail, forelimbs to hindlimbs.
Is This Class Right For You?
▶ Sport dog handlers looking to boose performance and prevent injury
▶ Senior dogs who need help maintaining flexibility
▶ Rehab professionals and trainers seeking to expand their toolkit
▶ Any dog lover who wants to safely stretch their dog at home
This Course Will Provide
▶ How to evaluate your dog's range of motion
▶ When to use flexion vs extension streches
▶ How to stretch your dog without resistance or stress
▶ Tips to avoid common stretching mistakes
▶ Routines for warm-up, cool-down, and recovery
▶ Professionally filmed instructional videos for each body region
▶ Clear demonstrations of active and passive stretching
Why Take This Course?
Foundations of Range of Motion & Stretching
◇ Key principles, safety, and the difference between flexion and extension
Neck & Cervical Flexibility
◇ Gentle techniques to improve lateral and vertical movement
Forelimb Mobility & Flexibility
◇ Improve range of motion in the shoulders, elbows, and wrists for functional motion
Spinal & Core Flexibility
◇ Ehancing trunk mobility and promoting balanced posture
Hip & Pelvic Flexibility
◇ Targeting the hip joint and surrounding musculature for improved flexion and extension
Hindlimb Flexibility
◇ Improving range of motion in the stifles, hocks, and rear assembly for optimal movement
Whether you're prepping for competition, supporting recovery, or just helping your dog feel great - this course gives you all the tools to stretch with confidence!
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
Start Date
◇ The class will start on September 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.
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.
☆ Flat mat (not thick)
☆ Cato plank or aerobic bench taht the dog can lay down with all four feet on the plank
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
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".
To learn more about Bobbie visit:
✔ Ask questions in the discussion threads
✔ View video feedback recordings in working
student threads
✔ Access content for as long as BLCC exists
