Open Enrollment
Have You Always Wanted to Learn
How to Train 4 Feet on Paw Pods?
Increase Your Dog's Limb Awareness By Teaching Your Dog How To Use Pods for Strength and Balance Training!
Learn that paw pods are not just for standing. Master getting 4 feet on 4 paw pods. Then design your workout using just the 4 paw pods!
You have tried and tried to "free shape" your dog getting on paw pods but all that happens is pods are flying. Ugh... All you want is to teach your dog to place their feet correctly!
In this self guided class you will learn which targeting skills will help you obtain optimal limb awareness while mastering paw pods.
This is a great time to teach your dog something new or to add new uses to your paw pods. Using paw pods for fitness is a ton of fun!
Join me today for this fun and beneficial class to help keep your dog mentally and physically challenged.
Each training exercise in this class should only take you a few minutes of training each day.
Who Should Participate?
→ Any Healthy Dog!
Why Take This Class?
➤ Teach your dog to use 2 and 4 pods
➤ Understand the foundation movements that will help improve communication with your dog
➤ Understand weight shifting to stop the flipping paw pods
➤ Improve your dogs proprioception and balance
➤ Teach your dog advanced paw placement
➤ Improve the foundation work you have already trained
Advantages of the Self Guided Online Class
✔ Convenience of online learning
✔ More time to learn the material than 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?
SELF-PACED CLASS
As soon as you sign up, you have access to all the lessons.
This way, you can pick and choose which exercises to work on.
Start Date
Class will begin right after you enroll. This class is always open so some students will be ahead of you and some will be behind you.
Format
Each class is broken into lessons, with one or more exercises within each lesson - access to material for as long as BLCC exists
The school reserves the right to modify, update or remove this class at any time.
Curriculum:
Creating a Solid Foundation
Introducing the Pods
Weight Shifting
Wide and Narrow
Position Changes
Changing Pod Positions
Lateral Work
Stretching on Pods
Class consists of 8 lessons with multiple exercises per lesson.
Sample Exercise
Stand Down Stand on Paw Pods
What Level are the Exercises?
This self guided class will have beginner to advanced exercises.
Suggested Pre-requisite - a basic understanding of clicker training is helpful, but not required.
Targeting Essentials for K9 Fitness
Foundation Fitness
Necessary Equipment –
FitPaws equipment may be purchased via the link below and Klimb is offering an educational discount for BLCC students. More information on the Klimb educational discount is provided upon enrollment.
▸ Paw Pods
Training Methods - A variety of training methods can be used to obtain the proper movement or position - shaping, luring, targeting, and It's Yer Choice. These methods will be discussed in the video tutorials, in the forum and through video review.
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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