Enrollment Begins 10am Pacific on: November 1st, 2025
and Ends: November15th, 2025 @ Midnight
Senior Dogs Need Fitness Too!
Keeping Muscles Toned & Flexible While Maintaining Balance, Stability, and Function
Do you want to learn fun quick exercises that you can safety perform with your senior dog?
Are you struggling to find appropriate workouts for your senior dog?
Do you want to improve your senior dog's quality of life by learning functional and fun exercises?
Then this is the online class for you!
Senior dogs need mental and physical exercise too!
Keeping muscles toned and flexible while maintaining balance, stability, and function.
Learn some fun ways designed to keep your senior dog functional and moving to help keep muscles healthy and strong to enhance flexibilty and body awareness and improve dynamic balance.
Why Take This Class?
➤ Learn Fun, Safe Exercises for your Senior Dog
➤ Lectures on Specific Issues Related to Senior Dogs
➤ Provide Mental Stimulation
➤ Enhance Human Dog Relationship
Who Should Participate?
→ This class is geared towards the senior dog, but any age dog is welcome in this class!
Advantages of the Online Class
✔️ Convenience of online learning
✔️ More time to learn the material than the traditional in person class format
✔️ Work at your own pace in the convenience of your home
✔️ Access to the material for as long as BLCC exists.
What's Included?
Discussion Threads
There will be discussion threads to ask questions.
Video Review
Working students can submit up to 3 minutes of video per lesson for instructional review. Voiceover video review is done by screen-casting for a more personalized experience. Screen-casting is audio-visual feedback (the next best thing to a 1:1 conversation).
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.
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 for as long as BLCC exists.
Curriculum:
Class consists of 6 lessons with multiple exercises per lesson.
What level are the exercises?
Since this is a senior dog fitness class, exercises will be beginner to intermediate level.
Suggested Pre-requisites
➤ A basic understanding how to positively train dogs and an open mind.
Possible Equipment –
substitution will be recommended if you don’t have equipment used in the videos. FitPaws equipment can be purchased HERE. Klimb is offering a discount as well. Information to get the discount will be available upon enrolling.
▸ Most exercises will use 1 or 2 balance pads.
▸ I will also use two different feed buckets.
There are many possible equipment options or you may use something you have laying around your house.
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/workshop may overlap or appear in other classes/workshops 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.
Lisa Schmit, PhD, CCFT, CPMP
Certified Canine Fitness Trainer
Certified Pet Massage Practitioner
Bobbie Lyons K9FITteam Member
Lisa Schmit is a passionate and dedicated dog trainer who believes in building confident, connected canine athletes—at every stage of life. With a deep commitment to both training and wellness, she focuses on helping dogs stay sound, strong, and happy through thoughtful fitness, clear communication, and smart agility handling.
As the founder of In The Zone Agility LLC, Lisa has created a supportive learning environment for agility handlers of all levels. Through individual skill classes or her All-Access Membership, she offers step-by-step guidance for everything from foundational distance work to advanced Bonus handling, along with fitness and massage techniques to keep dogs in peak condition.
Lisa isn’t just an expert—she’s a teacher at heart. She makes complex skills accessible, and she’s known for her practical, encouraging style. Whether helping a handler build their first start line stay or coaching a team to their 25th NATCH, Lisa blends science, experience, and heart in every lesson. Her goal is to help dogs and handlers thrive—not just in competition, but in every moment they share.
She doesn’t just want to train her own dogs—she wants to empower others. She builds structured learning communities (like All Access Membership), pays attention to what her students need, and she is always looking for ways to make information clearer, more inspiring, and easier to apply.
Lisa is detail-oriented, practical, and experienced—but also warm and approachable. She values connection: with her dogs, her students, and her community. At the same time, she is not afraid to advocate—whether it’s for better course design, more fairness in the sport, or just helping others understand what’s realistic to train. She strikes a balance between expertise and empathy.
With a PhD in Public Policy Analysis and certifications in canine fitness and massage, Lisa brings both academic depth and hands-on expertise to her work. Most importantly, she understands that great agility comes from trust, connection, and a whole lot of joy.
In short: Lisa is a passionate dog trainer, a generous educator, and a thoughtful advocate for both dogs and the people who love running with them.
To learn more about Lisa visit: www.inthezoneagility.com
- Ask questions in the discussion threads
- View video feedback recordings in the working students threads
- Access to the course for as long as BLCC exists
- Ask questions in the discussion threads
- Submit videos for feedback
- Earn certificate of completion
- Access to course for as long as BLCC exists