For this to happen, you need to be critical about your technique. You need to know WHY you are doing a strength training exercise – especially when it comes to getting the required results when strengthening your dog for sport.<\/p>\n The most common mistakes I see with good-intentioned handlers when strengthening their dogs are encapsulated around the following observations:<\/p>\n It’s about doing foundation exercises concisely in form and technique.<\/p>\n Mistakes in form, posture and technique cause exercises to become ineffective with unexceptional results and negligible strength gains – Meh.<\/p>\n At worst these mistakes can make your dog’s posture worse and create imbalances.<\/p>\n When we rush through repetitions too fast – ” heck yeah, let’s get in those 20 reps!!” – we forget one of the more crucial factors for results: the time that the muscle is under tension. Slower speed and pace of repetitions with proper form is a game changer.<\/p>\n Instead, start with fewer reps with better quality of movement.<\/p>\n Be critical of form and technique so that you always get the most out of your strength training exercises for your dog.<\/p>\n That is your precious time and effort well spent.<\/p>\n Next time you exercise your dog, try doing the repetitions slower and notice how much more challenging it is for them to do.<\/p>\n This is what makes those “simple” exercises not so easy anymore. \ud83d\ude09\ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n There’s nothing worse than doing all the right things … but, most times, unknowingly, doing them wrong … and then not seeing the strength training results you are supposed to be getting. You’ve put in the time and effort and the result is… “Meh”.For me, if you are going to put in time and effort, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[324],"tags":[526,515],"hf_cat_post":[],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biokinetic-k-9","tag-results","tag-strength-training","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"Strength](\"https:\/\/dogsolutions.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/dog-4096475_1920.jpg_1-e1681834867359.png\" "\\"Meh")
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Strength training results are not about complicated exercises.<\/h5>\n
So, what is best to do?<\/h5>\n
Happy Training!<\/h5>\n
Take a look at some of our shorter Workshop trainings<\/strong> that are live recordings to show you about:<\/h5>\n
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