Heart Rate Monitoring

One of the simplest and most informative measurements that you can make on a horse to assess information relating to it's fitness, health and performance ability is heart rate. 

Like humans a horses heart rate is measured regulary to assess increased fitness during training and performance. Heart rate is fundamental to stamina, a good aerobic capacity is necessary for many of the equine disciplines and this is crutial for recovery as much as it is for endurance. It is well documented that horses with poor stamina encounter more injuries due to fatigue this is easily remedied with effective training using heart rate at it's core.

Measuring heart rate post exercise as well as during is a good indicator of a horses cardio vascular fitness. Building a record of a horses individual heart rate response during and after exercise helps the trainer or owner to adapt suitable routines to ensure peak performance and recovery is optimised.

 Heart Rate and Performance Monitoring

With Dr David Marlin 

Basic recap of Level I

The ECG and heart rate monitoring

Arrhythmias, heart disease and heart rate monitoring

Other disease/Injury and heart rate

Trouble shooting heart rate data

Designing heart rate based training programmes

Data analysis/error correction

Heart rate trace interpretation - examples of different disciplines

Advanced use of ECG and HRM data in behaviour e.g heart rate vaiability

Practical session

Heart rate in transport, swimming, novel onjects tests, etc

Analysis and interpretation of traces from course attendees

I:I sessions on applications

Analysis and interpretation of traces from course attendees

I:I sessions on applications

Practical session

Review of the published and peer -reviewed scientific literature on use of heartrate monitors in horses basic physiology, applied physiology, health, disease,etc)

Horse-rider interation

Sychronisng heart rate and video data.