[Hucklebutt]

Please post your exercise routines here for all to see. How many days you exercise your dogs, how many house and exactly what you do, as in weight pulling how much weights next being...ect ect. please and thank you!! OH YEA IF YOU COULD POST SOME PICTURES OF YOUR DOGS body condition that would be great, trying to get some ideas!!

I take my dogs exercise every day, or atleast 6 days a week for exercise. i start out with weight pulling, a large amount. that i go to fetch pulling small amounts of weight, flirt pole and finally spring pole. it ushually lasts about 2 hours.

[CoolHandJean]

My main exercise is walked the dog individually at least 4 or 5 days a week.

Here is Locus. She gives herself plenty of exercise as well.

[Hucklebutt]

oh forgot to include some pics.

[jillibean87]

Bubba is exercised mainly by walking and with the flirt pole. Riley goes for walks but also goes to doggy daycare with me several days a week where he can run, jump, wrestle and tug.

[Libby]

Gypsy gets at least 15 minutes on the spring pole nearly every day. All the dogs get at least a two mile hike every other day, I take them to the park for fetch two to four times a week, for 45 minutes or so. Umah and Marsha go on bike rides with me during the week when I get home early enough, generally two times a week. I try to get all the dogs on hiking trips on the mesa when I can, which isn't nearly as much as it was last summer, unfortunately. I try to break out the flirt pole on occassion, too.

My only 'conditioned' dog is Mexi, and really I think that's just the way she looks, not any of my own doing. She loves to run.



My other dogs are in decent, healthy shape (Gypsy is losing weight, she got fat there for a while ) but they aren't ripped.

[Elliehanna]

I walk Goren at least an hour every other day, weather permitting, its funny to say this but up hills any way I go, if the weather is really nice we will walk anywhere from an hour to 3 hours, that is pretty much not stopping. I also let him swim in the river at the half way mark when I walk to the river in the warmer part of the year (now to cold) for about 30 mins to an hour. We let him swim in the lake when we fish for about 20 mins, I also work him on a flirt pole at least 2 times a week weather permitting for at a minimum of 20 min of actual work (work on leave it at this time so its very much a like 2 mins on 2 mins off). Just got a walky dog so have not used it to much so am not putting it into my weekly regeme, he also just started likeing his springpole so am not including that either, but will include photo. Goren is only 10 months old so am not trying to over work him either.

[capsulecorp]

I never really intentionally exercised my dog, I just took her on long walks. Let her chase deer even as a little pup, threw her in the pool and let her shake. This was not with the mindset of getting my dog in shape, I wasn't really thinking about it. Now my mind set is to throw her into a hardcore training regime. I can not wait to see the results. My dog is a BEAST naturally, this dog will literally climb up trees, hop fences its insanity!
My dog is game breed APBT/ Catahoula Leopard dog, I am now starting the conditioning program.
It consists of the following:
25 mins spring pole
25 mins of sprinting after the chew ball
(a great exercise because the dog can chase it and leap to catch it in air.)
Then of course long walks. I'm not sure about weights yet, and I intend to get a treadmill soon. This work out regimen has been in effect for two days lol, I will gladly except any suggestions. I'm not sure If I should work her everyday or everyother day yet. I feed her Wellness Core dog food, one of the best out. With raw meat a couple times a week, also sweet potatoas/yam, bananas and the miracle food...
raw honey, incredibly good for people and dogs.
This is what my dog looks like...

[Laced Wit Game]

me & loco dont do any real hard training. id say 3 days of the week he sprints (i ride bike) about 3 miles early in the day. about 15 minutes of ghetto springpole.
then he swims in the pool for about 15-45 minutes depending on the day.

during the summer i had him running against the 3-5 MPH current (chest high) in the ravine close by my house by throwin the chuck it tennis ball against the current.

when were not doin that then we just do light walkin in the 3x2 mile rice fields (dirtroads) behind my house.

i have no clue what our routine for the winter will be!

[Hucklebutt]

yea that what im thinking, if i can keep up my routine during the winter or not, hoping i can find the strength to fight the cold.

[shop_9625]

I have found that consistency is most important. Find things that you and your dog enjoy. 45 minutes of exercise everyday is better than 2 hours twice a week.

We walk Rocko twice a day, everyday. We also run around the back yard together, play tug when he is in the mood and swim whenever we are at the lake house.

[trey01]

road work really with a lil warm up ..... long walks with some quick sprints up hill and flirt poll work in during the walks....and REST...we just started REALLY workin bout 2 weeks ago

[Newtothegame]

Originally Posted by CoolHandJean My main exercise is walked the dog individually at least 4 or 5 days a week. Here is Locus. She gives herself plenty of exercise as well.

Locus looks great, I just started jogging my dog last week

[samuel64]

I take Bubba out for 3 to 4 hours each day around 11:30 a.m. for a walk where we also play ball, do training excercises,and rest breaks. In the evening we go out for 1 and a 1/2 to 2 hours of the same thing. We go into the woods often and sometimes he'll chase a deer or we'll meet up with a buddy for some running around play time. Lucky for him i'm not working right now. We do this year round. He loves cold weather! How cold does it get where you are?

[Teal]

We fetch for 2 hours a day... LONG, hard fetch. Then they fetch in the pool, weather permitting, for 45 minutes a day. A mile or two walk a few times a week. One day a week, we spend 8-12 hours out playing fetch, doing "urban agility", etc. just getting exercise in general. In the winter, or when the weather is crappy, they run on a treadmill, flirtpole inside, and if we live in a house with stairs they fetch up and down the stairs.

Here's my bitch


And my dog


Both pictures taken within the past few days

[Zoe]

I don't really make an effort to ''condition'' my dogs as they are just family dogs. We just have fun. Whatever the dogs like to do, whether that is fetch, spring pole, flirt pole, treadmilling, etc... and I take turns rotating who gets walked. I don't really think that much about it. We just go into the yard and play or go out and about for ''urban canine adventures'' as we like to call ''walks''.

[Hucklebutt]

in AZ it doesnt get too cold, cold enough for sweaters but never too bad, occasional snow where i am, in the mountains.

how old is your BT teal?

[Teal]

Originally Posted by Hucklebutt how old is your BT teal?

Our best guess is 1 - 1.5 years

[Dusk]

You guys are lucky that you're dogs like to fetch, my boy doesn't i have to chase him. :/

[Hucklebutt]

dusk use a long lead and pull him back into you and reward. do that for awhile and he will learn.

when did you get her teal? how much was she?

[Zoe]

Originally Posted by Dusk You guys are lucky that you're dogs like to fetch, my boy doesn't i have to chase him. :/

Another thing you can try, is get multiple toys to throw, and once he grabs one, waggle the other one all excited like and throw it in a different direction, and once he's got that one, grab another and repeat. It's a good way to wear off some steam until you can get him to get the traditional game of fetch. lol