I ride English and Western Pleasure. I purchased the Equicizer for therapy for my Rheumatoid Arthritis and also have a class for kids to learn proper horsemanship. My Equicizer has exceeded my expectations and enabled me to "ride" when Being outside on a real horse was just not practical. Even though the Equicizer does not have the up and down "trot" motion, I have found my Equicizer a great help in conditioning my students posting with no saddle. I have also incorporated my Equicizer in some pilate's exercises. I can do sit ups and core training while I am still doing riding exercises. The feel and motion is the closest thing to being on a live horse without being on a live horse. To Anyone that is interested in purchasing an Equicizer/Equipony. I have to say, riding is believing. You really have to try it to believe how well it works. People watch my class and are a little skeptical, I tell them to get on. That is all it takes. It is a work out in a half!
Frankie and Sandy, Yall have become just like family.....you have gone above an beyond the customer service experience.....I thank you both!
Kristy
Sumerset, Texas
Darnum Victoria Australia: from Beverley Manners
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Beverley Manners aboard her Equicizer she named Mate. |
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Mate rests comfortably in his happy new home |
At 63 years old, I had a two year layoff from any physical activity. There was no riding for me. That long period of physical inactivity combined to stiffen my body and atrophy my muscles. The first time I tried to mount a horse again, my whole body froze in a cramp of pain and it took two people to drag me off the back of my horse. This time, I thought, it was all over. I would never ride again.
One day I accidentally came across the Equicizer website. After some correspondence with Frankie and Sandy Lovato. Once I understood how the Equicizer worked, I had placed my order. Once I received my Equicizer, "Mate", the first few tries, I was too stiff to mount Mate, so I’d just put one foot in the stirrup and stand up in the stirrup on both sides of the horse, for a few minutes to stretch my leg muscles. I couldn’t put my right leg over the horse’s back. Frankie kept in close touch by email, to make sure I wasn’t overdoing it, and day by day I could feel my body loosening and stretching until one day after about one week, I actually slid my right leg over the back of the saddle and there I was, astride my new Mate! The feeling is difficult to describe, but was one of exhilaration. After about two minutes I had to dismount by inching my right leg over the horse’s neck and sliding down frontwards.
As I write this, it is three weeks later, and I can mount and dismount from both sides, and ride Mate for periods of fifteen to twenty minutes at a brisk canter. I can also do leg swinging exercises and canter for as long as I like, sitting sidesaddle.
There is absolutely no way that I could have progressed to this level on a flesh and blood horse, and I simply can not describe how much Frankie and Sandy mean to me and what they have done for me in providing me with this wonderful Equicizer from the other side of the world.
It is still early days for riding my outside horse, but the way things are going, I am optimistic that it will only be a couple of months before I will be supple enough and confident enough to ride again in the big outdoors.
To anyone considering an Equicizer or Equipony, I can only say….do it! And Frankie and Sandy, may God bless you abundantly, for the work you are doing. Keep it up!
Sincerely,
Beverley Manners
Rutland Manor Labradoodles
Darnum Victoria Australia
www.rutlandmanor.com