Resistance Training With Your Dog; Excerpt from the E-Book, "Do It With Your Dog!"
You may be wondering, "How can I possibly do resistance training with my dog?" Well, here are a few exercises you can do with the aid of your faithful furry companion.
(F.Y.I. - This section is written tongue-in-cheek - there is plenty of serious exercise advice to be found in the e-book).
1. Leg raises
2. Abdominal crunches with a paw on your forehead
3. Deadlifts
4. Pull-ups
5. Pushdowns
6. Lunges
One final word of advice when doing resistance training with your dog is never yell out "Spot me!" if your dog is not housetrained. It's a mistake you'll make only once.
- when you're trying to grab her for a bath. - one for the overly-enthusiastic dinnertime beggar. - this involves pulling up furniture, rugs, carpets, clothes, etc. to pick up all the fur that gets into the strangest of places. - if your dog has any inkling that you're taking him to the vet or someplace else he doesn't want to go and you've had to scrape him up off the floor to get him in the car, you've just done a deadlift. - laying down on the floor and grunting in pain can cause your dog to do it's own investigation to find out if you're all right. The scratch marks across your forehead are simply a byproduct of that concern. - if you have a male dog, he's probably already shown you how to do this one.
