Every sporting and active dog needs strength training. It elevates your sporting performance to the next level! Strength and strength training helps prevent injury, promotes health and is the foundation for speed and power – a desirable requirement in every dog sport I know.
Discover the foundations for strength training activation required for any power and speed sport that your dog may be doing. A strong foundation means a strong performance in the competitive arena!
This course is designed for you to gain great value and insight regardless of whether you are a beginner or an experienced handler.  You discover where to start and how to progress in the various exercises provided.
Recorded Live Webinar discussions, video demonstrations, explanations, PDF worksheets etc are all included.
There is a SPECIAL BONUS lesson available at the end!
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BK-9 Foundation Strength Program
Welcome To Our Foundation Activation Strength Program and Community! This course is set out to help you and your dog. You will find great value regardless of whether you are a beginner or an experienced handler. The goal of this course is to help provide you with enormous insight along with serving as a welcome refresher for more advanced handlers and trainers for fitness and conditioning of healthy, strong sporting and working dogs.
Any person on this course certifies that the exercises described here will only be performed or practised with a healthy, adult dog where a veterinarian has confirmed that your dog is injury-free and that it is safe for him or her to continue with a fitness and conditioning program.Ordinary obedience skilled will be an advantage (but not necessarily a pre-requisite) in performing the various exercises described in this course. We use mostly luring (with a food treat or toy) to get your dog to perform certain movements described in this course.
An overview of how to approach your strength training success path with your program
Course material, videos and downloads
We will be covering a full-body strength activation foundation for your sports dog along with dynamic stretching and how these exercises may be incorporated in a simple, quick warm-up and cool down.
Equipment is minimal for this course. There are a few essentials and not-so essential items to get you going.
Things you need to consider when rewarding or treating your dog for the awesome work he will be doing.
Everything you need to know about joining our Live Group Calls
Instructions on how to send a video of an exercise for review or feedback
Strength, Injury Prevention and Signs of Fatigue
In humans, we know that most strength training involves lifting weight to make that person's body stronger, but it is a little different with our dogs. We cannot simply give them a barbell and ask then to do shoulder presses! So how can we get then stronger and why should we?
Discover the more common signs of injury, fatigue or "red flags". What should you do when you notice these signs on a more regular basis?Â
Understanding Your Dog's Body
Looking at fore and hind limb muscles
Foundations in Strength Building - mastering your basic moves
Everyone will agree that walking your dog is essential. But how can you increase output, effectiveness and results of your walks to purposefully improve sporting performance?
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Welcome to the Foundational Strength Program - our first live session explaining a little about what to expect regarding our exercises and your dog
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Holding Positions for Postural Strength
What are you seeing when your dog executes an exercise and what does it tell you
Some Q&A, insights and tips as you proceed through the program
Extra: Strengthening Pasterns (wrists)
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Putting It Together. Special Bonus!
Points for dynamic stretching can be used as part of your warm-up, cool down and as a diagnostic tool too.
How to put your exercise plan together
Putting your workouts together with an example
Our first live Group Call recording
Our second live group call discussion
Our third live group call recording
In this call we look at where and how to start your program.
We answer a question from the Community on what the Latissimus Dorsi Muscles do, how and why we should target them
The importance of Treat Placement, your body position, the importance of the 4-point Stand
We discuss form, posture, ROM, Chiropractors etc
Progressions in Exercise - things to consider before and during progressions.
We look at:
Foundation Exercises vs Progression Exercises
Effects of injury on the whole body
Regression
Concerns when a dog is recovering from injury
We look at Communicating with dogs during exercises, Imperfections in execution of exercises, Muscle Imbalances and Starting Circuits
What are cardio and stamina, and how can strength exercises help with these?
Our goal is to make our dogs more injury resilient, not injury proof.
Understanding and introducing Strength Training to dogs
How to get continued support as you take your dog through our Foundational Strength Program at your own pace
About the teacher
Angela Ahern - CCAS, CMFR
Hello! Here's a bit about me: Certified Canine Athlete Specialist, Trainer and Advisor (CCAS), Canine Myofascial Release (CMFR) practitioner, working dog handler, entrepreneur, writer, unshakable optimist and IGP Dog Sport Competitor and trainer.
Dogs, especially active ones, need our help to protect their bodies and develop them for optimal performance, safely.
We work to keep them playing longer with the help of The Biokinetic K-9.
