Shaping Canine Fitness
Improve your training skills and dog's physical condition at the same time!
- important fitness foundations
- training basic gym movements
- shaping clean targeting behaviors
- essential clicker and training notions
- how to deliver food to promote clear communication
Having fitness and proprioception equipment for this course is not compulsory but greatly appreciated. You will need at least stable and solid objects safe enough for you dog to put weight on (such as planks, bricks or mats).
Syllabus
Week 1 – Welcome!
Week 1 – Fitness foundations – Skeleton, joints, and alignment
Week 1 – Training – The ABCs
Week 1 – Targeting – Stare
Week 1 – Food delivery – Luring
Week 1 – Gym – Twist/spin & figure 8
Week 2 – Fitness foundations – Movement vocabulary
Week 2 – Training – Markers
Week 2 – Food delivery – Laziness is the key
Week 2 – Targeting – Front & four feet
Week 2 – Gym – Hip pivot
Week 3 – Fitness foundations – Function of main muscle groups
Week 3 – Training – Loopy training
Week 3 – Food delivery – Let’s go get it
Week 3 – Targeting – Hind feet
Week 3 – Gym – Shoulder pivot & backing up
Week 4 – Fitness foundations – Equipment
Week 4 – Training – Adding a cue
Week 4 – Targeting – Nose & chin
Week 4 – Gym – Rock back sit
Week 4 – Food delivery – Drills without the dog
Week 5 – Fitness foundations – Duration & number of reps
Week 5 – Training – Stimulus control
Week 5 – Targeting – Front paw lift
Week 5 – Food delivery – Plan the Cs
Week 5 – Gym – Push up & Tucked Sit
Week 6 – Fitness foundations – How to build a program?
Week 6 – Training – To fade or not to fade?
Week 6 – Targeting – Hind paw lift
Week 6 – Food delivery – Bucket Game
Week 6 – Gym – Weight shifts & Kick Back Stand
Week 6 – Thank you!
Emelie Johnson Vegh