Features of horse-riding training for the elderly

the article discusses the system of training of elderly people in horseback riding taking into account the specifics of elderly people. Riding as a means of restoring and strengthening health, both physical and mental, improvement of psychological state of a person has been used since ancient since ancient times. Much attention was paid to the influence of horseback riding on the human body by Aristotle, Hippocrates and other ancient philosophers and physicians. Denis Diderot wrote a whole treatise on the importance of horseback riding for the preservation and promotion of health. Modern medicine uses a range of rehabilitation techniques that combine physical and emotional components in the process of in the process of restoring people's health through hippotherapy. With the development of technology, people are becoming more and more away from nature and nowadays horseback riding is no longer a mandatory element of a child's education as it was in the times of Aristotle, the teacher of Alexander the Great, or Diderot. Yet the desire to interact with these animals remains a lifelong desire for many modern people. For many older people, learning to ride is the fulfillment of a dream that they didn't get the chance to realize in childhood and adolescence. These people need a special approach to enable them to learn to ride in a safe and physically and emotionally beneficial wayand emotional well-being to learn to ride. We propose a system of recommendations that allow organizing lessons for older people with the widest range of physical abilities without special physical training the widest range of physical abilities without special physical training.

adult education, professional knowledge, horse riding, hippotherapy, horse riding, recommendations, horse riding training