Enrollment Begins 10am Pacific on: May 1st, 2025 and Ends: May 15th, 2025 at Midnight
Good Vibrations
Sometimes the smallest movements can create meaningful work.
Using a Vibration Platform creates rapid, small mechanical oscillations that the dog’s body must continually respond to. These vibration provide sensory input and create ongoing neuromuscular responses as the body works to maintain posture and stability.
For canine fitness, this gives us another way to influence the body without relying on bigger, faster, or higher-impact movements.
Owning a vibration platform is easy. Knowing how to use it purposefully is where the value begins.
Why Take This Class?
❖ Use GOOD VIBRATIONS with purpose-Understand what you're trying to accomplish before choosing a position or exercise.
❖ Activate muscles without adding high-impact movement - Explore ways to create muscular and postural work through vibration, positioning, and controlled movement.
❖ Improve body awareness and purposeful movement-Use the VP to add sensory input while your dog practices controlled foot placement, weight shifts, and transitions
❖ Progress beyond static standing- Build from basic positions to weight shifts, paw lifts, lateral movement, transitions, and exercises combining the VP with other fitness equipment.
❖ Target different areas of the body -Learn how changing which feet are on the VP and where the dog carries weight influences the exercise.
❖ Recognize when enough is enough - Learn to identify subtle changes in posture, movement, comfort, and fatigue so you can stop or modify an exercise before quality deteriorates.
Is This Class Right For You?
➤ Dogs who could benefit from low-impact muscle activation
➤ Canine athletes who need another tool for warm-up and recovery
➤ Dogs who need to improve body awareness and proprioception
➤ Dogs who benefit from controlled, purposeful movement
➤ Dogs returning to fitness who have been cleared for exercise
➤ Active dogs who need more variety in their conditioning program
➤ Dogs working on postural stability and weight distribution
➤ Handlers who already own a VP but aren't sure how to use it effectively
➤ Canine fitness professionals who want to add vibration-based exercises to their toolbox
➤ Owners who want to better understand what their dog's body is telling them
➤ Dogs and handlers ready to explore fitness beyond simply standing on the VP
Ideal for dogs 6 months+
(Reactive or shy pups? No problem, this class is online and you can do it from home)
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 21, 2026 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.
Possible Equipment and Vibration Platform
A variety of things may be used such as K9Fitbones, discs (other FitPaws equip) Cato boards, Raised platforms (Klimb/plyo box) Etc.
I recommend the LifePro Waver (full size or mini) or Rumblex Platform which is what I will be using during class in my demonstration videos.
Here is the link: https://lifeprofitness.com/collections/vibration-therapy
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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