Endurance Riding Optimized: Horse & Rider Readiness for the Long Game
Want to get started in endurance riding, move up in distance, and keep riding for years to come? Endurance Riding Optimized is about whole-horse, whole-rider readiness for the distance trail.
Join endurance rider, personal trainer, and nutrition coach Tamara Baysinger of The Sweaty Equestrian for practical episodes about conditioning your endurance horse, preparing for your first LD, 50-mile ride, improving rider fitness, navigating ride camp and vet checks, solving common training challenges, moving up to 100's, and building the skills and experience that help horse and rider succeed at distance riding.
If you’ve wondered How do I get started in endurance riding? How do I condition my horse for endurance? Are we ready for our first ride or to move up in distance? How fit do I need to be as a rider? How can I ride longer without getting tired? or How can I keep endurance riding as I get older?—then hit that "subscribe" button and come along for the ride.
Endurance Riding Optimized: Horse & Rider Readiness for the Long Game
Latest Episodes
Ep39 - Your 6-Month Plan to Prepare Your Body for the 2027 Endurance Riding Season
This is one of your most practical episodes of the year! Endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger - aka The Sweaty Equestrian - lays out a three-phase rider fitness plan to head into the 2027 endurance riding season fitter, stronge...
Ep38 - The Best News You've Ever Heard about Getting Fit for Endurance Riding
Think you need hours in the gym, perfect nutrition, or endless motivation to get fit for endurance riding? Endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger - aka The Sweaty Equestrian - explains why you can make a meaningful dif...
Ep37 - 5 Key Characteristics of Successful Endurance Riders
Do you have what it takes to succeed as an endurance rider? Can you cultivate your chances? In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger argues that you can develop most of the characteristics that are exemplified by s...
Ep36 - Your Best 2027 Ride Season Starts Now
Six months ahead isn't too soon to prepare for your next endurance riding season. Endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger - aka The Sweaty Equestrian - shares how to use that time to improve your own and your horses' readiness to ...
Ep35 - 10 Things to Check During Each Hold at an Endurance Ride
What should you check during an endurance ride hold after your horse passes the vet check? In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger - aka The Sweaty Equestrian - shares her tip-to-tail routine for catching subtle p...