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MAEVE SHERIDAN is a chartered physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience with riders. She has found similar patterns of weaknesses and asymmetries relating to pain and poor riding performance, and has developed the Activate Your Seat online exercise programme. Visit activateyourseat.com and follow Activate Your Seat on Facebook and @activateyourseat on Instagram.
“We need a full range of movement of the pelvis, and full control of that range, to follow, absorb and enhance the horse’s movement ”
‘THE RIDER’S SEAT’ is an umbrella term used by trainers and coaches to describe any part of your body that has contact with the saddle and therefore can influence the horse. It is not an anatomical term. Your seat includes your pelvis, hips and inner thighs.
Your ‘seat bones’ are your ischial tuberosities and are located at the base of your pelvis, which is the large bony structure at the base of your spine. Your spine joins to your pelvis at your sacroiliac joints, and your pelvis connects to your thighs at your hip joints. Your hip joints, or femoroacetabular joints, are large ball and socket joints between your femur (thigh bone) and the pelvis. These are joints with a
