Like any other equestrian, he has taken his share of bad spills on course, but credits this daily workouts with helping him remain injury-free. All I can tell you is that a fit athlete that is strong and limber would be in a better position to prevent a fall, or certainly walk away from one. I've had a couple of tumbles that I have simply gotten up from, and the next day I never knew anything happened. That's a misconception. You have to have a balance.
Muscles become very accustomed to what they do.
You need to re-stress the muscles to get them to fit. Chiacchia, who is currently working on a fitness book, stresses the importance of resistance training. For those riders who fail to work out, resistance training is simply, but aggravatingly, referred to as stinging pain. It's important to cross train. Boy, was I wrong.