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kittyrat4
kittyrat4: 3 months ago

Would you count horse-back-riding as exercise?

Also, lifting the feed bags (50 IB.) and bales of hay.

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BagdadCafe
BagdadCafe: 3 months ago via iPhone

Yes. Riding is not a passenger sport.

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booboo467
booboo467: 3 months ago via iPhone

Yes

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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago

Yes...OF course

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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
Yes...OF cours (not)
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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
*course ugh
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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
Ha.
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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
Ugh be quiet
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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
You can't "ugh" me...I say that, NOT you.
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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
Yes master
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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
Good...I just finished eating, come and wash my plate.
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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
Make me
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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
Ha, you're kidding right?
You are? YES I thought so.
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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
Gosh you're in a bossy mood today.
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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
I'm being me, If you don't like it GO HOME
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Gators_12: 3 months ago via Android
Fine.... I'll do the dishes. Do you have anymore chores for me?
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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
Yes..you have to give me a bath.
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Love2Travel
Love2Travel : 3 months ago via Android

Absolutely. Great core workout.

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07Rosie
07Rosie: 3 months ago via iPhone

Yes of horse (haha I see what I did there)

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Phlorence_602
Phlorence_602: 3 months ago
I see what you did there
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ymcmb43
ymcmb43: 3 months ago via iPhone

Yes helps with balance and Ab muccles depending on how you sit
Mild depending on how often you do it

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kittyrat4: 3 months ago
about 3 days a week, on the weekend and a lesson day. I don't have horse yet, but if I get one I would be there more often.
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fritzmerde
fritzmerde: 3 months ago

For sure, I got huge solid thighs from riding. Well not from riding itself but the constant falling & having to climb back on

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kittyrat4: 3 months ago
lol; hopefully I will not fall
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fritzmerde: 3 months ago
I've never really fallen, but I've been thrown a bunch of times. Thoroughbreds are fast, beautiful, strong & completely nuts. It is a great form of exercise with a twist-you're putting a great deal of trust in an animal that really isn't the brightest
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DanceTribute: 3 months ago

Yes!!!!!

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patriciashoup
patriciashoup: 3 months ago via Android

Oh yeah. I took riding lessons for two years and it was exhausting to be honest. Sore muscles, especially my thighs.

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kittyrat4: 3 months ago
I had a lesson on Wednesday and, I am still sore.
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auxarcs
auxarcs: 3 months ago via iPhone

For the horse.

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kittyrat4: 3 months ago
What the hay and bags of feed?
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shaylen: 3 months ago
Ummm.... You don't just sit on a horse.... Try riding a horse that hasn't been ridden in forever, then come back here and say it isn't work, I DARE you.
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MissRia
MissRia: 3 months ago

Actually sitting on the horse and just riding around, no. haha. I know some pretty fat people who ride horses quite a lot. But lifting feed bags, hay, saddles and barn work? Heck yes. lol

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chouetteraccoon
chouetteraccoon: 3 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 7:20AM on 2/23/2013

If you learn to ride properly (helping the horse to carry you, not just sitting on it), then you get a great workout in thighs, calves and butt, especially.
Lifting bales and sacks is great, too, again as long as you do it properly (use calves, knees and thighs, not your arms and back alone -- "bend zee knees!" was what I was always told... Trainer had a heavy accent, heh).
Grooming well and mucking stalls is real good for upper arms, too.
Yep, definitely good exercise if you do it right!

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