sanoanimal vs Volte Riding

Assessing the weight of a horse is important for every horse owner, as for any horse who is overweight has a significant chance of health risks such as EMS, laminitis, and other diseases. Weight alone is not enough for an assessment. Muscle is heavier than fat, so an untrained, overweight horse can still weigh less than a well-trained, well-muscled horse. However, muscle appearance can be deceptive. Horses do not initially store fat as a pad on the hip, but instead between the muscle strands. This means that an overweight horse looks well-muscled in the early stages, even though the training does not match the musculature. Additionally, horses with metabolic problems can also store a large amount of lymph. This adds a lot of weight on the scales but will not disappear through reduction diets – which contrasts to fat, because the causes of the two are different. The type of horse also plays a role in the assessment. A cold-blooded horse, for example, will always look ‘fatter’ than a normal sized thoroughbred, even when thin. It is no wonder that most people – even horse professionals – are completely wrong when it comes to judging a horse’s weight correctly. The Sanoanimal BCI app supports you in the assessment of your horse. Schematic diagrams guide you step-by-step through the process of assessing the neck, the body, and the croup. At the end of the process, you will get a result as to where your horse has ‘too much’ or ‘too little’. The results are divided in three categories: muscle, fat, and lymph. This helps you and your nutritionist, therapist, or trainer to adjust the feeding, training and, if necessary, therapy appropriately so your horse can return to normal. You can save the results and track the development of your horse during, for example, a diet, therapy, or after a change in training.

Volte records your ride and remembers it. Not just time and distance, but what you actually rode: walk, trot, canter, and tölt and pace for gaited horses, recognised minute by minute. And how much of it on the left rein and on the right. WITH OR WITHOUT A WATCH Start on your Apple Watch and leave the iPhone in your pocket, or use the iPhone alone. If both record, they become one ride. AFTER THE RIDE Your gait split and transitions, your route on the map, speed per gait, the balance between left and right rein, your heart rate from Apple Health and, with a chest strap, your horse's pulse next to it. Paths to the arena and halts are left out of the rein balance. If you switch from a hack to jumping mid-ride, change the discipline right there and every section is analysed on its own. GAIT DETECTION THAT KNOWS YOUR HORSE Mark a few minutes yourself during a ride and Volte learns how your horse in particular moves, then trains a model of its own for it, right on your iPhone. A guided training ride tells you when to ride which gait. YOUR HORSE OVER TIME Trends show how speed, heart rate, rein balance and gaits change across weeks, how regularly you work and how long you warm up. Per horse, not averaged over all of them. Missing a chart? Ask for it in your own words, for example "trot speed per week", and Volte builds it from your rides. You decide which charts you see and in which order. AT YOUR SIDE DURING THE RIDE Seat corrections remind you of what you are working on, for example "sit up tall" every three minutes in trot: as a voice cue, a tone or a vibration, and briefly as text on the watch. The session planner builds a session from real exercises, matched to your goal, your time and your level, with a warm-up and a cool-down, and tells you what comes next. NOTES THAT CONNECT Speak a short note after the ride. Volte writes it down and connects patterns across many rides, always with the quote from your own note beside it. YOUR DATA Everything is yours. You decide whether your rides are backed up to the cloud, and you can delete your account and all its data inside the app at any time. Health data is never used for advertising, AI features run on servers in the EU. VOLTE PREMIUM Recording with gaits, route and heart rate, your ride log for the last two weeks and the share card stay free. Volte Premium keeps your entire history and opens up trends, your own charts, the gait timeline, speed and rein per gait, AI insights, voice notes and seat corrections without a monthly limit. Try it free for 14 days, then an auto-renewable subscription. Volte replaces neither trainer nor vet. All analyses and suggestions are for information and inspiration. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/