OPEN ENROLLMENT
**WORKSHOP RECORDING**
Connecting the Dots Between Posture and Performance
Learn How to Evaluate Canine Posture and Understand How It Relates to Movement and Overall Performance
Do you wonder if your dog has good posture?
Do you wonder if the fitness exercises you do with your dogs are appropriate?
Do you worry about injury while competing?
Do you have trouble identifying week areas in your canine athlete?
Are you interested in improving your dogs' movement and performance by making small adjustments to posture?
This is your chance to get your dog's posture evaluated!!!
**Posture evaluation was included with purchase of a working spot when the workshop was offered live, there is an option in this Workshop Recording for Bobbie to evaluate your dog for an additonal fee**
Learn how to evaluate your dog's posture from Bobbie Lyons!
This workshop recording is designed to teach you how to evaulate posture to improve performance and reduce the risk of injury, by learning how to apply posture evaluation to become more efficient and precise with fitness exercises.
Who Should Participate?
Human Participants
→ Dog trainers that teach dog sports, obedience, conformation, etc
→ Massage therapists
→ Dog sport competitors (agility, flyball, dock diving, herding, IGP, Ring, etc)
→ Vets and vet techs
→ Anyone who is interested in canine fitness and performance
Canine Participants
→ Dogs that are required to jump for their sport
→ Conformation dogs
→ Dogs that compete in obedience
→ Dogs that compete in dog sports
→ Dogs that have recovered from injury
Why Take This Workshop?
Understand how to properly evaluate canine posture and identify posture changes from normal
Learn how posture effects your dog's performance
Learn how posture effects fitness exercises
Learn how to identify weak areas to help prevent injuries
Learn how to increase efficiency and precision of muscle movement through fitness exercises
Receive personalized feedback on your dog via voiceover review (Workers Only)
Advantages of the Workshop Recording
✔ Convenience of online learning
✔ More time to learn the material than traditional in person workshop format
✔ Work at your own pace in the convenience of your own home
✔ Access to material for as long as BLCC exists
Success Story #1
Background
The dog was squaring off rounded or wrapped jumps in agility and dropping bars. In obedience his gait timing was off when heeling.
Initial Posture Evaluation
▸Stand: Rear foot stance too wide, standing tucked under
▸Sit: Rear feet wide, not sitting up striaght, tipping toes up slightly
▸Down: Scrunched up through trunk, pelvis over rotated, rear feet extended and forward
Post Posture Evaluation
Improving posture through exercise increased this dog's awareness of how to use his body, learned what a balanced stand feels like and went from staying tucked under and supporting his weight through his back to standing and moving nicely with weight in all four feet. In obedience he is now shifting his weight back for heeling and is able to trot next to his owner. In agility, he went from squaring off jumps to tucking his rear feet underneath him to power over while wrapping.
Success Story #2
Background
Client was a terrier mix who stood with a roach back and had recovered from a psoas injury. Primarily competes in agility. He struggles with knocking bars and not utilizing his limbs as well as he could.
Initial Posture Evaluation
▸Stand: Standing tucked under
▸Sit: Rear feet too wide, not sitting up straight
▸Down: Scrunched up through trunk
Post Posture Evaluation
Through exercises we corrected his wide stance in a sit and taught him how to get his rear feet underneath him prior to taking off for a jump. This gave him more power to propel over a jump which equaled less bar knocking. We also taught him what a normal balanced stand feels like so he can stretch out through his spine and relax his back allowing him to maintain a longer stride which improved his yards per second.
What's Included?
Workshop Recording
As soon as you sign up, you have access to all the content of the workshop.
This way, you can pick and choose which exercises to work on.
Start Date
Workshop recording access will begin right after you enroll. This working recording is always open, so some students will be ahead of you and some will be behind you.
Format
Workshop recordings, exercises, and discussion is available upon purchase - access to material for as long as BLCC exists
The school reserves the right to modify, update or remove this class at any time.
Suggested Pre-requisites
➤ A basic understanding of how to positively train dogs and an open mind
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 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 - 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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