Open Enrollment
Strength Training to Prevent the Most Common Injuries in Dog Sports
Aligning Exercises to Structural Weakness Can Be Key to Injury Prevention
Self - Paced Class
As soon as you sign up, you will have access to the to the full course!!
In the K9 sport world there is a lot of talk of injury to the shoulders and illopsoas muscle. Often these injuries are "soft tissue" that are hard to diagnose and difficult to fully recover. My goal in this self paced class, is to help you understand how to reduce the chance of injury and have a better understanding of how these injuries can occur.
Illopsoas (psoas) injury is often seen in canine sport athletes due to over use of the muscles, splayed rear legs on slippery ground, under trained long jumps, and lack of strength in the core muscle group, just to name a few culprits. The illopsoas is two muscles and supports more movements then you might think.
Shoulder injury often occurs in performance dogs due to repetitive movements, managing surfaces, managing 60% of their body weight, the speed in which they are turning and more. This class will help you understand the complexity of the shoulder and how to support it through exercise.
Why Take This Class?
This class is ideal for any healthy dog!
❖ Learn how to understand psoas and shoulder injuries in performance dogs
❖ Describe the anatomy of the complicated shoulder and forelimb complex
❖ The potential reasons for psoas and shoulder injuries
❖ What makes your dog predisposed to psosas and shoulder injuires
❖ Prevention, strength, stretching, and conditioning will be described in depth
Advantages of the Self Paced 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 sire exists
Self Paced Class
As soon as you sign up, you have access to all the lessons. This way you can pick and choose which exercise to work on.
Start Date
This class will begin right after you enroll. This class is always open for enrollment, so some students might be ahead of you and some will be behind you.
Format
Each class will be broken up into lessons, with one or more exercises within each lesson - access to materials for as long as BLCC exists.
The school reserves the right to modify, update, or remove this class at anytime.
Exercise Level
This course will have beginner to advanced exercises with most falling in the intermediate to advanced level. If you are a beginner you can start at the foundation level and work out to the more advanced movements.
Course Curriculum
Three lessons will specifically work on psoas
Three lessons will specifically work on shoulders
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.
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.
➔ 2o2o board / travel plank or aerobic bench
➔ K9Fit bones, large and small discs
➔ Peanut
➔ Klimbs or platforms
➔ Cavalettis or agility jumps or poles on pop cans
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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