Training a horse can be a challenge. Horses are strong, fast, and dangerous. They often engage in bad horse behavior that leaves their owners frustrated and confused. The fact is, most individuals do not have the foggiest idea where to begin training a horse. In this article, we’re going to discuss foundations that are what should you start with when it comes training a horse and what can you accomplish?

There are four basic goals you should set for training a horse, and this is before a saddle is even introduced.

These are:

• Becoming a leader for your horse

• Building trust and respect

• Teaching basic yields

• Building communication

Think about it. In case you’re not a leader for your horse, when you’re out riding’s will undoubtedly make his own decisions! In the case of something scares him, he’ll take off at the first opportunity. Horses always seek out escape routes and they want to do it. So the first step in training a horse is establishing leadership.

On the off chance that you’re a leader for your horse in it’s new home, then he’ll think twice before making any crazy moves. And on the off chance that he sees you as the alpha of the group, he’s less prone to engage in bad horse behavior. The main question is how might you get this leadership?

Fortunately its actually much easier than you would think. Dominant horses do things like move other horses around and get before horses that are of an increasingly submissive twisted. Experts have made sense of exercises you can do when training a horse to place yourself in this leadership position, by kind of mimicking behaviors of the dominant horse.

These exercises include:

• Leading a horse

• Round pen training

The fact is the way you handle a horse on the ground says a ton about who’s in charge. When you experience a gate, does your horse patiently wait for you to pass through, or are you a bit stressed he may crash through and thump you over? When you’re leading the horse, does he blow past you? On the off chance that you’re seeing these kinds of cues, then it is important to chip away at your leadership with the horse. Round pen training is probably the best ways to do this.  These cues are called the basic yields. Basic yields are used to advise the horse to move a certain body part a certain way. For example, we may want him to turn and change his course on his right side. So we would apply pressure to the forehand on the left side. Horses move off pressure, so he will respect the pressure and move to one side. That is the idea of a basic yield. It can be done on the ground or in the saddle.