100% Fit ?

[King. 215]

I've read loads of threads on here over the years and it all ways pops up about 100% fit. How can any dog man know if a dog is 100% fit or not. Boxers and top athletes are nearly there but U.S. Mere dog men how can we know if a dog is at its total peak. A boxer will train for 6/8 weeks to be in prime condition but can't keep that prime as it takes to much out of the body.

So is it a sentence that we all spit out or not.

[Snifferboy 659]

Thats a hard one, when its catching at its best I guess... I have been putting a considerable amount of time on conditioning into my mutts of late, resting them when feel they need it giving them more to go at when I feel they can handle it, good food, they are never unfit but this year I really have been a lot more conscientious and honestly i think at times they've run better at times when I have just fed them on gain28 and not put anywhere near the effort in... So, I guess I'm at a loss with this one at the moment... Hopefully somebodies wisdom will strike a cord with me...LOL! But every dog has good days and not so good so I take comfort in that fact and will always say there is room for improvement!

[terryd 8,921]

when it gets its wind back quick ?

[Snifferboy 659]

when it gets its wind back quick ?

Ah yeah! That makes sense... Tongue back in and on... Got that sorted!

[King. 215]

when it gets its wind back quick ?

But you could say 1to 5 mins terry I t honk it's impossible to know.

[King. 215]

Thats a hard one, when its catching at its best I guess... I have been putting a considerable amount of time on conditioning into my mutts of late, resting them when feel they need it giving them more to go at when I feel they can handle it, good food, they are never unfit but this year I really have been a lot more conscientious and honestly i think at times they've run better at times when I have just fed them on gain28 and not put anywhere near the effort in... So, I guess I'm at a loss with this one at the moment... Hopefully somebodies wisdom will strike a cord with me...LOL! But every dog has good days and not so good so I take comfort in that fact and will always say there is room for improvement!

Thanks for the reply sniff it is a hard 1 to guess I think

[Bosun11 537]

I think some people over think fitness. Of course a dog must be at a certain level of fitness to start work but it's only that work that can take em to any real standard but lets not get carried away, performance is the real measure of any lurcher, fitness only helps performance!

[terryd 8,921]

 

when it gets its wind back quick ?

Ah yeah! That makes sense... Tongue back in and on... Got that sorted!

 

 

 

I was just thinking when I started running I used to need an hour to get over it lol but as I got fitter with in a minute or two the old heart rate was back down and I wasn't sweating like a pig. I just noticed after a big hill or what ever my breathing settled quick and seemed a guide as to how I was

Edited September 18, 2015 by terryd

[Snifferboy 659]

 

 

when it gets its wind back quick ?

Ah yeah! That makes sense... Tongue back in and on... Got that sorted!

 

 

 

I was just thinking when I started running I used to need an hour to get over it lol but as I got fitter with in a minute or two the old heart rate was back down and I wasn't sweating like a pig. I just noticed after a big hill or what ever my breathing settled quick and seemed a guide as to how I was

 

Its pretty obvious that, I'm just simple and think too hard!

[haymin 2,465]

It's a figure of speech I think ?you just no or dont no how fit YOUR DOG IS ??

[nans pat 2,575]

run hard twice a week behind few decent hares they be fit,that running behind cars only keeps their nails right,lol

[low plains drifter 11,122]

Peak of fitness can only be maintained for a very short period of time. That is why athletes be they human ,dog or horse are gradually built up to an event, any attempt to stay at peak fitness for a lengthened period of time can only result in a drop off in performance and or injury. As far as running dogs are concerned no amount of trotting alongside a bike or a car will put the topcoat on like getting behind a few strong winter ones

[jiggy 3,209]

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Edited November 2, 2015 by jiggy

[terryd 8,921]

Peak of fitness can only be maintained for a very short period of time. That is why athletes be they human ,dog or horse are gradually built up to an event, any attempt to stay at peak fitness for a lengthened period of time can only result in a drop off in performance and or injury. As far as running dogs are concerned no amount of trotting alongside a bike or a car will put the topcoat on like getting behind a few strong winter ones

 

 

True that's why marathon runners build up to the long run a few weeks before the event because you wouldn't want to be doing it constantly. So you try and peak on the day.

[dytkos 17,917]

It's a figure of speech I think ?you just no or dont no how fit YOUR DOG IS

Disagegree Jimbo, you know how unfit your dogs are but you never know how fit they can be????????

 

Cheers, D.