Wellness Centre for Dogs and their Humans

In recent time I have had puppies on my table for first appointments getting ready for show or performance or have just hit the show ring

Yesterday was a great example of having a Baby Puppy who is absolutely stunning however had been pushing back on the stack over the weekend then progressed to offsetting in the rear

Her lovely person realised that this wasn't due to puppy behaviour but body feeling uncomfortable and needing some body love.

Yesterday's appointment addressed this along with talking through and setting up a plan of body and tissue management.

Especially tissue management. This girl is a beautiful mover! She can cover ground however managing her body is completely different to the older bitch (Sup CH). Although similar lines on Dam side but completely different lines with Sire.

So a plan of how to over the next through months during growth and development how to support her connective tissue on a regular basis. Including warm up prior to the show ring. As she will be needing this!! I also spoke about how to over the next few months support her tissue with exercise criteria of how to not overload tissue on a daily basis. Exercise criteria for young ones from my perspective is solely based on functional movement. Not loading up the body, stressing joints etc.

I see beautiful young ones where they have lost their lovely strong toplines, fronts etc during 4-7 months of growth and development. However with an understanding of tissue type (not just short/fast twitch or slow twitch) but the natural flexibility, strength etc of and how this interplays through out the first 12 months or so is often what is a missing link for people.

Enjoy!

With beautiful days of sunshine this week I will be videoing some new canine conditioning session for my people then messaging them through.

Finally!!!

Canine Exercise Physiology Talk.

It has been a long time coming however:

I will be presenting a Canine Exercise Physiology Talk with dates etc to be advised.

Topics I will cover:

Aerobic conditioning, interval training, fartlek and how to work programming: micro/macro training phases to prepare for competition and what is required for specific dog sports including show body conditioning and general fitness.

Basic conditioning such as fit condition, working condition and peak condition and how this relates to development along with body type and tissue types such as short twitch/fast twitch or slow twitch muscle fibre and breeds. I will cover different training principles including hydro and land based exercise criteria.

General body confirmation and biomechanics/ functional movement. My work is based on functional movement!

Understanding tissue: muscle fibre, connective tissue fibre such as fascia, ligaments, tendons, joint tissue.

Tissue recovery and management.

Exercise for body conditioning and how this is correctly done. This will cover how loading and compensatory patterns interplay with the body and exercise programming.

These topics are all topics I touch on within each consult for my Wellness Centre people.

This talk is for my Wellness Centre people only.

My show and performance people as you will already have a basis of understanding from putting your exercise programs into play along with tissue management programs walking the path of prevention and care.

Therefore if I am not currently treating for you/your dog this talk will not be suited for you.

If you are interested please feel welcome to pop your interest below or message me directly.

I will post further details soon!

I absolutely love seeing my dogs under red light at night in other people's lounge rooms.

I have always been a huge advocate for laser, magnetic, relight therapy for 25 years!!!

I have very specific criteria for when, which type and how to apply red light, laser and magnetic etc therapy. However it is awesome to see my dogs receiving daily tissue management by their people so that when they come for treatment I can focus on soft tissue treatment for functional movement and work progress with a plan of exercise criteria, tissue management etc.

Perfect day for hot stone massage!!!

Hot stones are on for a beautiful afternoon of treating humans along with listening to the stormy weather rolling in.