What are your top five body awareness exercises?

Okay, super question and the answer is it depends. So my top five puppy body awareness exercises

are going to be different than my top five, say, competition dog exercises.

And within the competition dog, it really depends on what my dog's strengths and weaknesses are.

So, for example, for a puppy, sit down stand, love them. I love them on, you know, sit down stand

on a plank where those paws aren't going to move and I'm going to move around your body

and can

you get off balance a little bit one way, a little bit the other?

Sit down, stand, big, big, big fan of those for puppies.

And as my dog grows up a little bit, I love side stepping, side passing.

I start quite young with my puppies. Things like back up is a great exercise where they learn how to weight,

shift their body back and step in a really controlled manner. Of course, I love things like

Cavaletti's for body awareness exercises and really control things like that. But I would say for

sport, I really want my dog having an awareness of how to use their limbs. So it might be lifting up one limb at a time, but it's about strength, mobility,

proprioception, flexibility. So weight shifting. Those are really big things for me. We, in Agility

Nation, we have well over 50 different fitness exercises in there from contributors from all over the world.

Veterinarians, physiotherapists, specialists.

Could you tell me about your warm-up or cool down routine?

I have a 20-minute warm-up routine.

I can do it in as small as eight, but the most important part of that warm-up routine is that my dog is really,

really warmed up. I personally would like to get my body really, really warmed up, but

there's a number of different things that I do during that 20 minutes. But it starts and

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