S3 E7: The wine cellar

Let me invite you today, to come for a little journey into the wine cellar with me, which is kind of ironic, given I don’t drink alcohol, but hey, I can still appreciate the amazingness that is a wine cellar… so come on this little journey with me.Why are we going to the wine cellar? Well, for very, very good reason: Because, we have a tendency to start training our horses on the ground floor or somewhere above it, so, in the middle instead of at the beginning, instead of starting down in the gloriousness that is the wine cellar. I think we do this for a variety of very legitimate reasons, but it often leads us into a pickle in lots of ways with training our horses where we get ourselves stuck or facing problems. I hear some of you cry here, ‘but but but, I am not a horse trainer, I am an owner and I work with a trainer so this episode can’t be for me’… and I’m here to tell you that anyone who works with or cares for any animal, anywhere is a trainer – regardless of whether we’re conscious of it or not. So yep, if you care for a horse or any other animal, you are a trainer & this episode, this visit to the wine cellar is for you. As if you don’t want to go to the wine cellar anyway!?In today’s episode I’m going to speak to the training that comes before the training. Because that piece is inextricably connected to just how successful any training, which I say in inverted commas, is.So let’s head down the stairs into the cool of the wine cellar together and get started. In this episode we discuss:1:22 - episode introduction3:10 - we so often miss the (training) things that come before & start training somewhere in the middle instead of at the start (or in the wine cellar)5:37 - there’s a whole lot of training that doesn’t seem like ‘training’ but IS training and has a direct impact on our ‘training’7:37 - the things that come before the wine cellar - the ‘site preparation’8:46 - problems in training: symptoms versus causes9:58 - what’s falls into the category of training that doesn’t seem like training but is training, for you13:19 - setting up the classroom for student success14:19 - wine cellar foundations are not something most of us were taught16:49 - the role that peer pressure (direct or in-direct) plays19:34 - it’s not rocket science, but we mostly miss them and/or need permission to go there20:23 - an activity you can do that doesn’t seem like training but absolutely is training23:30 - another activity to think about how you’d approach in your circumstances25:54 - episode recap30.22 - episode wrap-up & what’s on next week Links mentioned this episode:  Sign-up to our email listAbbey's Run Equestrian websiteAbbey's Run Equestrian on Facebook Thank you to Matthew Bliss for podcast production & consultation. You can find out more about podcast support on offer via: https://www.mbpod.com/