If you want to step up your workout routines as a rider, you’ve come to the right place.
Let us tell you a story.
In June 2024 we met a rider who told us he needed help to sit more upright to be able to ride in better balance between jumps.
We asked him to look at his riding from video and tell us if he saw rounded or over arched lower back. It was rounded.
In the same group we had another rider who also struggled with keeping her position upright and she was leaning forward in the light seat. Her lower back was over arched.
If we told these riders just to “sit more upright”, they would struggle to feel real difference in their riding because it would not help them fix the root cause – their hip position.
Rounded back is connected to posteriorly tilted hip and leaning forward in light seat to forward tilted hip.
If we gave them generic, one size fits all workout plan, we’d miss out on targeting the completely opposite root cause they had.
So, we individualized their workout plans based on how they felt in the saddle and they had completely opposite strength movements to reach the same desired outcome: the ability to sit more balanced and upright.
They were not looking for workouts. They were looking for a solution to help them become better as a rider.
All they needed to tell us was how they felt in the saddle and we then chose the workouts for them that resulted them being able to feel that difference in their riding in already 2 weeks.
But the riders we’ve worked with would tell you that *OUR MAGIC*is not just good workouts. It’s explaining the connection between the workout and your riding.
All I ever wanted was to be a rider but that never really turned out to be how I had dreamed. I’ve been riding since I was 5 and saw ponies at the local marketplace and there really was nothing else for me after that moment.
After my 2 severe knee injuries in my junior age, my sports physio and sports performance coach studies and setting up my first business, in 2020 I had finally found my way back deep into this sport.
I bought a promising 3yo mare, willing to put everything I had into this come back, but life had other plans.
In April 2022 I completely destroyed my right knee (ACL) which killed the dreams I had as a rider.
So I had more time to truly discover the purpose I found working with different riders through EQUESTRAIN.
I understood this is my way deep into this sport.
Not as a top level rider, but as a top level coach who has the courage to challenge the way we see ourselves as athletes in this sport, to help those who want more and fill that gap we have in our sport.
My heart belongs to ambitious riders who want to put in that dedicated work to become better riders.
xx
Laura
My education background:
Batchelor’s degree in physiotherapy (University of Applied Sciences of Lahti, 2015)
Sports specialized physiotherapy (University of Applied Sciences of Lahti x Suft Ry, 2019)
Personal trainer certification (Personal Trainer Academy, 2019)
Sports performance coach certification (Op Center, 2022)
Pilates instructor certification (Somatic Studio, 2023)
Mental coach (Peltonen Performance, 2023)
Top performance mental coach (Peltonen Performance, 2024)
