Winter break riding schedule?

You may find it easier by mapping out your time at the barn

example: 80 minutes total each day, 5 days

20 minutes groundwork 30 minutes riding/exercising 30 minutes working on something new (maybe a new dressage move you'd like to try, or a higher jump, or even a cute trick like shaking hands!)

If you feel up to it, riding for all five days would probably be a blast and your horse would get a good amount of exercise. But, if for some reason, you don't feel up to riding one of those days, I'm sure he would benefit from some good, solid groundwork.

Have fun on winter break! (I'm so excited for it, so I can ride my heart out without school and work getting in the way!)

It depends on how hard your riding your horse, if your just doing little rides walk trot and canter around the arena and whatnot, 30-40 minutes is a decent workout but not overdoing it ad could be done a little longer. If you gallop, jump, or do disciplines that are more of a wokout, I would say 45 minutes to an hour is a good workout. If you do an hour ride, 5 days per weeks is perfect. If i were me I would do Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, And Saturday and gives the horse to spread out days off.

It depends if you plan on competing in the near future? For example, I started conditioning my horse at the beginning of November for a Barrel Race that's in January. If you are going to compete or have a big trail ride or something coming up, ride at least 4 days a week but don't let you horse sit for three days - ride every other day or so. That allows your horse to recover each day as you condition him. Your schedule seems to match that. Sounds fine to me. I ride for at least an 40 minutes and never more than 2 hours unless I'm trail riding. I think less than that defeats the purpose of conditioning. I usually time myself too. Warm up for 15 minutes at a trot, do some stretching exercises, then get to some loping for about 20 minutes, and end with practicing the pattern and quit as soon as my horse does well. Happy riding:)

It depends how old your horse is, If he/she 's young (2-13 y/o) , personally i don't think 5 days is that much. Anyways, it can't do much harm for 40 mins, you're training your horse, and he/she 'll be a happy one, since he/she'll get their daily work out!

Back to your question, How Much Riding Is Too Munch, i would say a good thing would be 6 days and 1 day off, or if your horse is less hyper by being in his stall all day, 5 days riding, one day ground work, one day off...

As you please! Play with it! Good Luck!