Horse riders spend many hours out in the weather. We spend hours in the sun in summer, and the same in winter we let our skin be damaged by wind and cold. I have been in this industry for many years and having fair skin I learnt to protect myself at a young age. I am grateful for that now. I see many same age riders with very dry tough skin looking well beyond their real age. When we are young we have little care about so many things an older person focuses on.
Horse Riders like all athletes focus on their riding and riding only. We get burnt, so what, we will tan. Researches now know every burn is damage to our skin.
Our face and our hands are in the weather every day. Our arms and chest spend nearly as much time exposed. The damage accumulates with age and then one day we have extremely old looking skin. Old Horse Riders may not be that old but years in the weather will give them age.
The use of products is essential for Horse Riders to protect themselves. We can buy special 50+ SPF clothing, we can buy helmet extenders but the best protection for the exposed areas is a 60+ SPF cream applied regularly. Like any cream it only works if you apply it. I have attended many riding clinics and talked to beetroot faced riders at the BBQ after to be told their cream was in the car.
The weather dehydrates the skin, we all know that. The number of hours a horse rider spends outdoors is extensive so the dehydration is the greatest in out door users. I use and recommend a powerful Vitamin E cream for skin rehydration and for skin repair. This cream is 30,000 IU, it is 60 times stronger the over the counter Vitamin E cream. Applied every night and morning for extremely dry skin it will make a difference in a number of days. It takes 28 days for new skin to grow through to the surface layer.
If you start protecting your skin from the sun and start applying this powerful skin hydrator and repair cream to your face you will feel and look younger within a month.
The cost of this regime is cheap compared to medical intervention. Don’t wait to look like an old Horse rider when your not.
Glucosamine is a well known joint food substance to promote cartilage joint growth. Horse Rider suffer repetitive loading on many of their joints. The constant damage and grinding away of cartilage eventually leads to arthritic joint pain. Horse Riders may not run and pound their knees and hips but they jar and load their body in other ways. Lifting hay nets, feed buckets, throwing rugs on and mucking out yards loads the joints as much as running does. By taking the correct does of Glucosamine daily a Horse rider can control and mange joint pain so much more effectively.
Don’t accept the effects on your body of being a Horse Rider when simple cost effective products are available. Extend you riding career with the use of braces and health products and enjoy riding into your older years. I intend to.
