Optimizing the Horse's Muscles

Discover how you can significantly influence your horse's muscle problems and maintain better overall health through systematic and regular training and adapted feeding in this science-backed resource.

When horses have muscular problems or a muscle disease like PSSM 2, they require informed and enhanced care. Optimizing the Horse’s Muscles is the highly-detailed, definitive guide for both the open-minded veterinarian and the curious layperson. It provides advice on how to combine training, husbandry, feeding, biology, anatomy, and more to foster the well-being of the horse’s muscles. Inside you’ll learn about:

• How muscles and muscle metabolism function

• The symptoms of PSSM 2, how to diagnose it, and its known variants 

• Practical tips for building and maintaining healthy musculature, plus advice for specific challenges

• Training to maintain health, from planning effective training stimuli to recognizing signs of fatigue and taking recovery phases into account

• How to implement training principles while keeping muscular problems in mind

• Feeding for muscle building and PSSM 2 (including variant-related tips)

• And more!

This in-depth resource covers medicine, genetics and biology, while also providing constructive tips for building muscle through training and feeding. From the horse's basic needs to the special features of muscle diseases, no topic relating to the horse’s muscles is left uncovered. This is the ultimate resource for all horse people looking to maintain the health of their horses both with and without muscle problems.