| Training dogs is just like training people, obvious when you think about it really! Personal Trainer Durham talking about training, dogs! Our dogs are two years old now and pretty well trained as we have been to all the classes and then a little gun dog training. We both decided early on we where going to have well behaved dogs. Its' a god send. Recently it dawned on me that we can just train them like human clients. (Video of Storm GSP swimming) |
Calorie Deficit
They where a little fat, so as I would do with a client the dogs are having a little less food, calorie deficit to help drop a little weight. "its working".
Hill Reps
If you do not have a lot of time to train, then improving the quality of the exercise is best...more bang for your buck. For example hill reps are a really tough exercise, interval training of sorts and amazing for improving fitness and weight loss. So using the balls, we have our dogs chasing the balls up and down hills. "they absolutely love it too"
Swimming
Swimming is a great rehab exercise, and when you are just learning to swim its amazing exercise too burning loads of calories. We wanted proper country dogs, to match our personalities (well my personality) we wanted running, climbing, swimming countryside dogs.
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Our German Short Haired Pointer (GSP) is sensible and aware of danger, which is the opposite of our Labrador. The Lab has been swimming loads pretty much from the start, but his brother has not, he was always too scared. So we always thought Storm just could'nt swim, he was just cautious.
Eventually we found the right location, a small lake and bit by bit, Storm the GSP began to swim, two weeks in check out his progress on the video attached.
Thats our story so far....have been buzzing for two weeks watching my amazing dogs swimming like Michael Phelps.
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