Endurance Riding – The Sweaty Equestrian

Episode 39: Your 6-Month Plan to Prepare Your Body for the 2027 Endurance Riding Season

This is one of your most practical episodes of the year! Endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger – aka The Sweaty Equestrian – lays out a three-phase rider fitness plan to head into the 2027 endurance riding season fitter, stronger, and better prepared for the miles ahead. Listen to the end, because there’s a …

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Episode 38 – The Best News You’ve EVer Heard about Getting Fit for Endurance Riding

Think you need hours in the gym, perfect nutrition, or endless motivation to get fit for endurance riding? Endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger – aka The Sweaty Equestrian – explains why you can make a meaningful difference in your rider fitness with less time than you think, an imperfect plan you can actually …

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Episode 37: 5 Key Characteristics of Successful Endurance Riders

Do you have what it takes to succeed as an endurance rider? Can you cultivate your chances? In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger argues that you can develop most of the characteristics that are exemplified by successful endurance riders. Hint: It’s so much more than knowing how to condition a horse. …

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Episode 36: Your Best 2027 Ride Season Starts Now

Six months ahead isn’t too soon to prepare for your next endurance riding season. Endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger – aka The Sweaty Equestrian – shares how to use that time to improve your own and your horses’ readiness to make your next season better than this one. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube …

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Episode 35: 10 Things to Check During Each Hold At an Endurance Ride

What should you check during an endurance ride hold after your horse passes the vet check? In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger – aka The Sweaty Equestrian – shares her tip-to-tail routine for catching subtle problems early, so you can head back onto the trail with a horse who is comfortable …

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Episode 34: Strategies for Slowing Down at the Start of an Endurance Ride

The start of an endurance ride is challenging for many riders, especially when their horses want to go too fast. In this episode, endurance rider and personal trainer Tamara Baysinger – aka The Sweaty Equestrian – shares a combination of training and on-trail strategies to help you and your horse slow down and regain control. …

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Episode 33: Chilled-Out Conditioning for Type A Endurance riders

How much conditioning does your horse really need to get ready for endurance riding? In this episode, personal trainer and endurance rider Tamara Baysinger – aka The Sweaty Equestrian – explains why newer endurance horses benefit from a simple foundation of long, slow distance—and how to build toward a first LD or 50 without overcomplicating …

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Ride Report: Tevis 2025, Part 3: “Will We Complete?”

Did you catch Part 1 and Part 2? We hustle out of Foresthill. Our friends’ laughter, their encouraging shouts, fade almost instantly. We are dropping off the edge of day, the edge of town, the edge of excitement. It is sobering, this trot into impending darkness. I remember the switchbacks that carry us back into wilderness, and I …

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Episode 27: Highs, Lows, and Lessons at the Midnight Rider Endurance Ride

It’s story time! Come along for the ride as I share the highs, lows, and lessons learned at my horse’s second 50-mile endurance ride at Midnight Rider in Washington State. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube I Heart Radio Links: Weekly Newsletter – Don’t miss my free boost of rider fitness motivation, delivered straight to your inbox …

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