The Total K-9 Experience!
K-9 FITNESS
K-9 Fitness/Conditioning
Our main goal at Alpha K9 U is to help our K-9 companions live many long, happy years through healthy lifestyles.
Strength and Endurance Conditioning
There has been a significant increase in the number participating in dog sports over the last decade, and we aim to enable every canine athlete to reach their full potential, enabling them to avoid common injuries. Cross-training is as essential for the canine athlete as it is for humans to improve endurance, strength, and flexibility. Whether your dog is a working, hunting, sporting K-9, and/or family companion, dogs can utilize 'water work' for comprehensive, individualized goals. Water exercise is an excellent cross-training activity that increases the overall fitness of your canine athlete while decreasing the risk of overuse injury by separating fitness training from skill training.
Fitness and Weight Management Program
Obesity is associated with shorter lifespans, diabetes, arthritis, and diseases of the heart, liver, and kidneys. Exercise is essential in many ways, especially in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. It burns calories, increases muscle mass, combats the ill effects of aging, such as arthritis, and even makes your dog happy and better behaved.
Our weight loss programs are designed to fit the dog's age, physical health, and amount of obesity. These factors are designed so a dog can lose the right weight healthily*.
INTERVAL TRAINING
How we "Interval Train"
Throughout the workout, we mix swimming, walking, jogging, and/or running intervals to help increase heart rate and burn. The length of workouts, swim time, playtime, and all other kinds of exercise depend on the dog’s age, health, and stamina.
Hydra-Conditioning
Swimming is a great cardiovascular exercise and offers a low-impact way to increase strength and endurance. Our conditioning services are specifically developed for dogs needing more strenuous exercise and handlers who want to get their dog in better shape for competition, whether in the show ring, working arena, and sports arena, or to increase activity levels. All breeds of dogs can benefit from and enjoy the activity.
Each one of our swim programs is designed to meet your dog’s specific fitness needs, ranging from our K9 Puppy Sessions, which will teach your pup to relax and play in a pool atmosphere, as well as swim, to K9 Fitness Swim Sessions for owners who are seeking weight loss and/or no impact exercise for their dog, to K9 Assisted Swim Sessions for dogs - suffering from arthritis, soft tissue injuries, muscle atrophy, obesity, or pre - and post-surgery conditions.
Weight Loss
Obesity can greatly reduce your dog's mobility, leading to problems with joints and muscles and aggravating the effects of old age and arthritis. The buoyancy and reduced dead weight that a pool provides enable your dog to get a low-impact but effective workout, helping to strengthen muscle tone, improve mobility, and increase fitness levels.
We will work with you to develop an exercise plan that both you and your dog can accomplish. Twice weekly water exercise sessions jump-start the process because one minute of swimming is equal to 5 to 15 minutes of walking and thus increases overall fitness, endurance, and cardiopulmonary output.
Our Programs Combine:
- Pool Workouts
- Strength Training
- Groundwork
- Comprehensive Nutrition Plans
It is important to work with your dog’s veterinarian to develop an individualized program for safe and healthy weight loss -
The right weight loss program for any dog will be very gradual. Exercises must begin slowly in dogs that are extremely obese, elderly, or who have existing medical conditions.
Appointments
You may request an appointment by email, phone, fax, or by stopping by the front office during office hours. You may also schedule recurring appointments. If you are unable to attend an appointment, please let us know. Most appointments require a cancellation notice of at least 24 hours in advance. We appreciate your help in keeping our schedule running efficiently.
Our main goal at Alpha K9 U is to help our K-9 companions live many long, happy years through healthy lifestyles.
Strength and Endurance Conditioning
There has been a significant increase in the number participating in dog sports over the last decade, and we aim to enable every canine athlete to reach their full potential, enabling them to avoid common injuries. Cross-training is as essential for the canine athlete as it is for humans to improve endurance, strength, and flexibility. Whether your dog is a working, hunting, sporting K-9, and/or family companion, dogs can utilize 'water work' for comprehensive, individualized goals. Water exercise is an excellent cross-training activity that increases the overall fitness of your canine athlete while decreasing the risk of overuse injury by separating fitness training from skill training.
Fitness and Weight Management Program
Obesity is associated with shorter lifespans, diabetes, arthritis, and diseases of the heart, liver, and kidneys. Exercise is essential in many ways, especially in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. It burns calories, increases muscle mass, combats the ill effects of aging, such as arthritis, and even makes your dog happy and better behaved.
Our weight loss programs are designed to fit the dog's age, physical health, and amount of obesity. These factors are designed so a dog can lose the right weight healthily*.
INTERVAL TRAINING
How we "Interval Train"
Throughout the workout, we mix swimming, walking, jogging, and/or running intervals to help increase heart rate and burn. The length of workouts, swim time, playtime, and all other kinds of exercise depend on the dog’s age, health, and stamina.
Hydra-Conditioning
Swimming is a great cardiovascular exercise and offers a low-impact way to increase strength and endurance. Our conditioning services are specifically developed for dogs needing more strenuous exercise and handlers who want to get their dog in better shape for competition, whether in the show ring, working arena, and sports arena, or to increase activity levels. All breeds of dogs can benefit from and enjoy the activity.
Each one of our swim programs is designed to meet your dog’s specific fitness needs, ranging from our K9 Puppy Sessions, which will teach your pup to relax and play in a pool atmosphere, as well as swim, to K9 Fitness Swim Sessions for owners who are seeking weight loss and/or no impact exercise for their dog, to K9 Assisted Swim Sessions for dogs - suffering from arthritis, soft tissue injuries, muscle atrophy, obesity, or pre - and post-surgery conditions.
Weight Loss
Obesity can greatly reduce your dog's mobility, leading to problems with joints and muscles and aggravating the effects of old age and arthritis. The buoyancy and reduced dead weight that a pool provides enable your dog to get a low-impact but effective workout, helping to strengthen muscle tone, improve mobility, and increase fitness levels.
We will work with you to develop an exercise plan that both you and your dog can accomplish. Twice weekly water exercise sessions jump-start the process because one minute of swimming is equal to 5 to 15 minutes of walking and thus increases overall fitness, endurance, and cardiopulmonary output.
Our Programs Combine:
- Pool Workouts
- Strength Training
- Groundwork
- Comprehensive Nutrition Plans
It is important to work with your dog’s veterinarian to develop an individualized program for safe and healthy weight loss -
The right weight loss program for any dog will be very gradual. Exercises must begin slowly in dogs that are extremely obese, elderly, or who have existing medical conditions.
Appointments
You may request an appointment by email, phone, fax, or by stopping by the front office during office hours. You may also schedule recurring appointments. If you are unable to attend an appointment, please let us know. Most appointments require a cancellation notice of at least 24 hours in advance. We appreciate your help in keeping our schedule running efficiently.
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Unparalleled in the industry, our number one goal is to provide our customers and their dogs the ultimate experience in canine care. We offer widespread care and training by qualified and experienced professionals. We have a proven track record, excellent reputation, and extensive dog sport and behavioral knowledge.