Welcome to the Absolute Dog Sex and a Squirrel podcast. I'm Lauren Langman. I'm one of the world's leading dog trainers and it's my mission to help owners become their dog's top priority. In each episode, you'll discover how to gain trust and

communicate with your dog like never before, creating unbreakable bonds that make you the most

exciting part of their world. If you caught part one of this conversation with Lauren and Mel,

you already know they dove deep into what recovery really looks like for our dogs after a competition weekend.

So for this second part, Lauren is once again joined by the brilliant Mel Doyle,

small animal physio, rehab expert, and her personal go-to when it comes to keeping her dogs fit

and thriving. Whether you're a weekend warrior or a professional handler juggling multiple dogs and

endless events, this episode will help you rethink, reset, and rebuild your training schedule

with purpose. Let's go ahead and dive into part two with Mel. And using those, all the different

size but solid-based platforms to create what we want to create, whether we're sort of loading the back end more, whether we're loading the front end more, whether we're creating like a balanced even surface, whether we've got individual pores that are targeted. Again, I don't think, I mean, you might correct me, but I don't think Jamie uses the poor cause anymore. Very rarely, very rarely. And again, but you've got those individual targets and and look at

what the i mean you have to say skittles body shape her physique is amazing 100% different

yeah 100% changed as well so has changed completely so she's she, but musly lean. So, but her body changes. And you're right, it has been since August last year where you put hands on you're like, we need more muscle here. We need to recruit better muscle here because if not, this won't last. Yeah. And without the muscle, she would, because of the brain that she had, without having the body to back up the brain,

she would have very easily hurt herself because the body wasn't there to support what her brain wanted to do. Yeah, yeah. So it makes complete sense. So I'm looking at this week, Mel,

and I'm now thinking hard, if you were going to fit in the treadmill session with those dogs,

and they're competing again,

now let's say Skittl obviously isn't, she's competing on Sunday, but the other dogs are competing on Saturday, where are you going to fit a treadmill session in? Where's the best day to do that? So then you have to re-look at what you want to do on the Wednesday, really, because Wednesday, again, is probably the day, the last day to do it. If you could do it on the Tuesday, but then you affect what you do Wednesday, Thursday.

Yeah, yeah.

So, you know, it's, you know, it might be. And again, sprint work doesn't necessarily have to be included within every week. You know, so we're, I know we're talking about a week here, but in a way, you could talk about a month and go, right, well, this, this week we're going to do some sprint work and we're not going to do that this week we're going to do this do this, but we're not going to do that. So although we've got this sort of collection of things we want to include, we don't necessarily include them every week. You know, like we're talking about, I say, right, if I'm competing, if I'm training, I haven't got time to put a treadmill session in. So the next week, when I'm not competing, I will do. and everything would be an ideal world would be lovely to do everything every week but we can't fit it all in

and it's like it. And it is like, it is like life, isn't it? There's so many things you want to do. There's part of me that next week is a school holiday. Part of me wants to go abroad. Part of me wants to enjoy the horses here. Part of me wants to train the dogs all week. Part of me wants to go exploring the local area. Part of me wants to go in a camper van for a week. I want to do it all, right? And it's about what you can fit in and what you can't fit in and then and then life as well and doing life too. So potentially the treadmill session on like the Wednesday. Yeah. Potentially. Or the Tuesday is better, you're saying. Yeah. Or the, well, if you do it on the Tuesday, you then affect what you can do on the Wednesday so you then would limit how much, because you wouldn't be able to do the agility training that you wanted to do on the Wednesday. So you couldn't do like the fast dog, you know, the fast, really high, more higher intensity exercises if you did a treadmill session on the Tuesday. Really, the treadmill could be the end of your Wednesday session. So you. And that, you know, definitely sort of include those things at the end of the day.

So your professional inputs if you can. So if you can timetable, you know, you see them at four o'clock, then see them at four o'clock. Then that gives you all the rest of the day to do all the other things, but target them in the right way. So it would be something like, you know, maybe you want to do a little bit of training, or you would do treadmill in the morning on the Thursday before a professional on the Thursday afternoon for those dogs that are only doing work on the Sunday. But those that are doing Saturday, you might treadmill them on the Wednesday. So each dog might have a different plan for the week. It might not be every dog does exactly the same thing for each day of the week. So then Thursday, potentially the treadmill early, if they're competing Sunday only.

If not, they could do land-based on the Thursday still.

Yes. So then Thursday, potentially the treadmill early, if they're competing Sunday only. If not, they could do land-based on the Thursday still?

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