14 | Fit Fur Life - Dog Treadmills
• Once your dog has been using the incline or decline function for
6 weeks the muscle development in the wasted areas should
really start to show an improvement.
• When you feel your dog has rebuilt the muscle, then maintain with three
sessions a week. Make sure you alternate using the horizontal plain as
well as the different gradients to allow for even muscle distribution.
• To produce good muscle tone in a dog requires the dog to be increasing
its cardiovascular rate up high and maintaining that for a length of time.
• To do this your dog must be comfortable in the striding out gait and
trotting gait.
• Please ensure your dog has had practice in these paces and has
experienced different gradients.
• You need to build your dog up slowly, but the length of time that you
can maintain a good pace, produces good tone on a dog.
• If your dog is familiar with the trotting pace, then by building the length
of time that he/she does this will rapidly show results.
