Every dedicated athlete requires specialized equipment to hone their skills. Baseball players utilize batting cages, basketball enthusiasts practice on driveways, and golfers frequent driving ranges. Similarly, cyclists rely on stationary bikes for training. But what about horse riders? The answer lies in the Equicizer!
The Equicizer™ is a meticulously handcrafted mechanical horse designed to simulate the experience of riding, enabling you to enhance your overall fitness and refine your riding techniques. After all, horseback riders are athletes too, and this innovative equipment recognizes that.
This remarkable tool allows riders to target and strengthen the specific muscle groups essential for effective horseback riding. By incorporating the Equicizer™ into your training regimen, you can build a stronger, healthier, and fitter foundation for yourself, your students, or your clients, all within the convenience and safety of your own home or equestrian facility.
Steve Lantvit, a multiple award-winning rider, instructor, clinician, and trainer, enthusiastically endorses the Equicizer, stating, “This is the best piece of training equipment I have ever used for my riders!” You can explore many of Steve’s riding tip videos utilizing the Equicizer by clicking here: Click Here!
What is the Equicizer?
The Equicizer is a non-motorized, mechanical horse that is expertly hand-crafted. It offers a safe and versatile training solution that can be used by almost anyone, anywhere. Constructed with exceptional quality and built for durability, this unique piece of exercise equipment is so engaging that you might even find yourself giving it a name, patting its neck, or offering it a friendly hug!
Each Equicizer is meticulously built using high-quality wood, custom steel components, and other robust materials, all proudly made in the U.S.A. The Equicizer Elite model features a beautifully hand-carved wooden head, meticulously painted and finished in a color of your choice.
How Does the Equicizer Work?
One of the most significant advantages of the Equicizer is that it requires no electrical power – nothing to plug in or turn on. Furthermore, it is virtually maintenance-free. The Equicizer operates on a spring-balanced mechanism that is easily activated and controlled by the rider’s effort and current fitness level. By engaging the correct riding seat and leg muscles, riders can effectively bring the Equicizer to life, simulating the movements of a real horse.
When in motion, the Equicizer mimics the authentic gait of a horse, allowing riders to exercise, stretch, practice their technique, and improve their body posture, positioning, overall fitness, and confidence in a secure and controlled environment.
The ingenious design of this mechanical horse allows it to enhance your strength, balance, and coordination because it’s you, the rider, who powers its movement. This means you can perfect your position, increase suppleness and flexibility, build core strength, and boost your fitness, all while engaging in ‘perfect practice’ sessions in your tack room or the comfort of your own home. You can use any standard-sized saddle, with or without stirrups, or even ride bareback. Riders initiate the walk, trot, or canter motion by engaging their hips, core seat, and leg muscles. This comprehensive exercise engages all the key riding muscles in your legs, abdomen, and back.
Join Thousands Of Riders
The Equicizer™ is an invaluable tool for riders looking to exercise, improve their physical condition, rehabilitate from injuries, and train for riding live horses. Featured on national television programs and in popular films, the Equicizer™ provides equestrians with an unparalleled training experience. Now you can utilize the same equipment that professional equestrians have relied on for years. Thousands of Equicizers™ are actively used by professional equine athletes worldwide, as well as by individuals with severe disabilities, novices, and even those who have never ridden a horse before.
Who Uses the Equicizer?
The Equicizer™ caters to a diverse user base, ranging from elite professional Equine Athletes to individuals with significant disabilities, beginners, and those completely new to horseback riding. Essentially, anyone can benefit from using the Equicizer™.
Its applications span a wide array of equestrian disciplines, including Dressage, Hunting/Jumping, Western Pleasure, Endurance, Vaulting, Polo, and Racing. It’s also utilized by riding instructors for training, in filmmaking and special effects, and in private homes for various purposes. The Equicizer has been employed for weight loss programs, by rehabilitation centers, in therapeutic riding programs, for Hippotherapy, Massage Therapy, general fitness, and simply for enjoyment.
The acclaimed actor Tobey Maguire trained rigorously on the Equicizer for the close-up riding scenes in the motion picture Seabiscuit. He commented on the intensity of the training: “I didn’t realize what kind of athletes jockeys are. The first time I got up in the stirrups and did a bit of a gallop on the equicizer, after a couple of minutes my legs were noodles. I could barely stand up.”
Para-equestrian Sydney Collier, who trained to qualify for the 2014 WEG and 2016 Paralympics, is pictured with her Equicizer, affectionately named “Wyburn.”
Visit our online shop to explore our range of Equicizer™ Models and Accessories. For any inquiries, please feel free to email us at info@equicizer.com or call us at 419-663-1472. Wooden Horse Corporation is located at 819 W. Dublin Rd. Norwalk, OH 44857.
