 To me there's nothing more satisfying or enjoyable than a horse that's able to move and perform well without any compromise in his body or mind. Unfortunately, the journey to train horses to use their bodies better is often very confusing and complicated for riders with tons of conflicting information. I wrote my first two books and continue to teach and train based on what I see as a strong need in the horse industry for simple, clear and useful information to develop horses gymnastically. Helping horses learn to use their bodies better with a strong dressage foundation, never any force, and a strong cross-disciplinary approach is my passion. I'm going to give you five very simple tips to accomplish better movement with your horse by creating more suppleness. I guarantee that you will see results. Creation here for what I want to show you with using intervals to get more accomplished. The goal with any gymnastic exercise is to deliver blood flow to the muscle. And what commonly happens is that people choose an exercise, and I'm going to do a turn on the forehand right now to demonstrate just as an example a gymnastic exercise. Many people stay in the exercise too long. And what happens is the muscle starts to compromise to get the job done in an easier fashion. And when that happens, you start to strengthen the wrong muscles and torque places in the horse's body. We don't want to create torque or strain. So I'm just going to execute a little schooling turn on the forehand, which means I'm not asking him to be perfect with his front feet on one spot. And I'm just going to ask him to step under. Now what I want you to see is that these back legs are taking a pretty uneven or erratic stride. Sometimes the back leg crosses a lot. Sometimes like right there, it just stalls out and stops crossing. And this is the mistake many people do. They'll go round and round with an exercise such as this. But they're not really getting their goal done of loosening the horse where they need to. It would be much more effective if I can work the body in a short interval in a good quality way and then leave that exercise for the same period of time I just work the body and then come back to the exercise.