Muscular Strength and Endurance
Muscular strength and endurance are two essential parts of your dog´s body’s ability to move. Muscular strength is the amount of force the dog can put out or the amount of weight he can pull. Muscular endurance is how many times your dog can move that weight without getting exhausted (very tired).
Benefits of Muscular Strength and Endurance
Muscular strength and endurance are important for many reasons:
- Increase your dog´s ability to do many activities with you without getting tired.
- Reduce the risk of injury.
- Help to keep a healthy body weight.
- Lead to healthier, stronger muscles and bones.
Improving Muscular Strength and Endurance
There are many ways to improve muscular strength and endurance. It all depends on how much time you have to invest in it.
In this course, you are going to find a few different options to do with your dog.
Advisable is to have a weekly plan for this. Otherwise, it is easy to forget and go for obedience training instead. Make sure to get in both muscular and endurance training. 2-4 times is advisabele.