PR EQUIFORMANCE POSTURE SLINGS

REVISED EDITION

Medium Sizing now falling in Shorter Height Category

A note from Britta

If you bought a Medium band kit from us, I wanted to tell you directly about a change and why your set looks like it’s for the shorter category rider.

We’ve sold through the last of our Medium (5’5”–5’7”) kits and we aren’t reordering that height. Going forward we’re running two height categories instead of three, and riders in your range now fall into the shorter category. 

Here’s the reasoning. Band length sets where in your range the resistance actually switches on. A band cut long for your height sits with slack through the first part of the movement, so you’re chasing tension instead of working into it. That’s fine on the ground. It’s not fine mounted, where the useful part of the range is small and the feedback needs to be immediate. Shortening the band for your height means you’re loaded from the start of the range, through the positions you’re actually holding in the saddle.

Our revised edition includes a single set of Equiformance Posture Slings 

There are NO LEVEL 2 BANDS 

The PR Equiformance Posture Slings are a specific Patented design, developed by leading New Zealand and United States USEF Equestrian specific Physiotherapist Britta Anna Pedersen, for Active Stability and functional performance training of the Rider on their horse. 

Resistance band training has been around since the early 20th century and is widely used as part of both fitness and strength training. Sling exercise therapy (SET) training is a newly developed training method, which demonstrates the effects on enhancing deep stabilizing musculature, neuromuscular control and decreasing musculoskeletal complications. Anatomy slings were first described by Vleeming - as muscles, fascia and ligaments all working together to create stability and mobility. 

How do I functionally re-train my alignment? Functional Rider Training utilizing the Equiformance Posture Slings is a fabulous tool for helping to develop a riders feel associated with correct and effective postural positioning in the saddle. If we can ‘feel’ what muscles we should be engaging along with ‘where’ our leg and pelvis should sit, we then begin to work on mind-muscle connectivity. 

SET of the Rider on the Horse is an open kinetic chain exercise and addresses the principle of strengthening the core musculature of the body through instability training of the body's slings. It has been demonstrated that SET training has a positive effect on balance, force and velocity, suggesting that training core musculature through SET improves energy transfer from proximal to distal segments - exactly the full functional balance needed during riding. 

Each PR Equiformance Sling Kit Contains:

x1 Pair EQUIFORMANCE Posture Sling Bands

x1 Pair Shoulder Supports

Carry Bag

Instructional Care Pamphlet (Inclusive of Private Instructional "How To" YouTube Link