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Mind and Body Riding: Build Confidence In Your Riding
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Series: Rehab for Riders
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ISBN13: 9798197393012
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mind and Body Riding: The Complete Rider's Guide to Confidence, Breathing, and Physical Performance in the Saddle Your body remembers every fall. Your mind replays every bad ride. And your horse feels all of it.
Mind and Body Riding is the only equestrian guide that works on your mindset, your breathing, and your body - simultaneously - because in the saddle, you can't separate them. Are you a rider who:
Mind and Body Riding is the only equestrian guide that works on your mindset, your breathing, and your body - simultaneously - because in the saddle, you can't separate them. Are you a rider who:
- Feels tension, bracing, or anxiety the moment things get difficult?
- Has hit a performance ceiling that coaching alone hasn't broken?
- Is returning after injury and rebuilding trust in your body - or your horse?
- Wants to ride with more confidence, ease, and genuine connection?
Then this book was written for you. Mind and Body Riding draws on sport psychology, breathing physiology, and equestrian biomechanics to give riders a structured, practical, deeply evidence-based framework for development. It is not a fitness programme. It is not a performance coaching manual. It is a whole-rider system - one that treats the mind and body as what they are: inseparable. WHAT'S INSIDE
The book is structured across four parts, each building on the last:
FOR EVERY TYPE OF RIDER
Mind and Body Riding is written for four rider types - and recognises that most of us are a combination:
WHAT READERS SAY / WHY THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT
Most equestrian books address one dimension of riding: the technical, the physical, or the psychological. Mind and Body Riding is the first to integrate all three into a single, coherent framework - grounded in evidence, written with warmth, and designed to be genuinely useful in the real, imperfect world of everyday riding. Part of the Rehab 4 Riders series. Companion volume: Stronger in the Saddle (biomechanics and a 6-week structured exercise programme). If you've ever felt that your riding is held back by something you can't quite name - this book names it. And then helps you change it.
The book is structured across four parts, each building on the last:
- PART ONE: THE FOUNDATION - MINDSET. Sport psychology principles applied to equestrian performance. Understand how your thought patterns, motivation, fear responses, and nervous system habits shape everything that happens in the saddle.
- PART TWO: THE BRIDGE - BREATHING. The most immediately powerful tool in the book. Learn why breath is the single lever that works simultaneously on mental state and physical performance - and how to use it in competition, hacks, clinics, and the moments it breaks down.
- PART THREE: THE PILLARS - BODY. A deep, rider-specific exploration of the three physical qualities your horse needs from you: strength, mobility, and balance. Understand what your body is actually being asked to do, and why your patterns exist.
- PART FOUR: INTEGRATION. What it looks and feels like when all of it works together. Build your personalised development plan, handle setbacks without losing ground, and understand the long game of rider development.
FOR EVERY TYPE OF RIDER
Mind and Body Riding is written for four rider types - and recognises that most of us are a combination:
- The High Performer - competitive, goal-driven, held back by perfectionism or performance pressure
- The Leisure Rider - riding for joy, but wanting more confidence and feel
- The Fearful Rider - managing anxiety, possibly after a fall or bad experience
- The Returning Rider - rebuilding after injury, reconnecting with their body and their horse
WHAT READERS SAY / WHY THIS BOOK IS DIFFERENT
Most equestrian books address one dimension of riding: the technical, the physical, or the psychological. Mind and Body Riding is the first to integrate all three into a single, coherent framework - grounded in evidence, written with warmth, and designed to be genuinely useful in the real, imperfect world of everyday riding. Part of the Rehab 4 Riders series. Companion volume: Stronger in the Saddle (biomechanics and a 6-week structured exercise programme). If you've ever felt that your riding is held back by something you can't quite name - this book names it. And then helps you change it.
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