Dressage athlete training with focus and control

DRT High Performance Program

Maintain your fitness & reach an all-new peak

To truly shine as a dressage athlete, we need to think like true athletes. HPF is your pre-season strategy — a 12-week program of 36 brand-new workouts to recalibrate, rebuild your foundations, and prepare for a new peak.

Watch: Nicola explains the DRT High Performance Program

36 Brand-New Workouts

12-Week Pre-Season Program

Train Like a True Athlete

Let me explain how

Welcome to the next level…

You cannot always be peaking.

Welcome to the DRT High Performance Program. This is about helping you maintain your DRT fitness while continuing to take your riding to a new level.

If you completed DRT1, 2 & 3, you know that each new program brought a new peak and level of performance. But the foundations were always revisited in Phase 1 — you didn't simply pick up where you left off in the program before.

You cannot always be peaking without bringing on fatigue, burn-out or injury. In order to truly shine as a dressage athlete, we need to think like true athletes — so it's important that we apply periodisation to our DRT system of training.

A dressage rider training with strength and precision

“To truly shine as a dressage athlete, we need to think like true athletes.”

You'd be joining a global community of dedicated riders who train the DRT way:

25,000+: Participants
84: Countries
36: New Workouts
12: Weeks

Periodisation

Taking a progressive approach.

In the graph below, see how each DRT program is broken into its 3 Phases — and how each Phase 3 brings a new peak level of performance (the pink bar). Note how each program starts back at the foundations in Phase 1 (the light grey bar) before reaching a new peak.

Periodisation graph showing how each DRT program's three phases build from foundations in Phase 1 to a new peak in Phase 3 — “Periodisation in the DRT context means changes in the volume, intensity, frequency, and structure of training over time.”

Your Pre-Season Strategy

Building foundations to reach a new peak.

A rider recalibrating and rebuilding foundations in the off-season

Proper periodisation of training is necessary for the achievement of peak performance, and is always at the heart of every successful athlete's training plan.

This High Performance program is your time to come back to basics, recalibrate, and work on foundations again like any athlete would in their off-season to pre-season training. Consider HPF your pre-season strategy.

With 36 brand-new workouts, HPF brings fresh variety to your training and allows you to maintain fitness in between the main progressive programs that help you reach a new peak.

This 12-week HPF program is your chance to come back to basics, recalibrate, and work on the foundations again like any athlete would in their off-season or pre-season training. It also gives you variety with 36 fresh, new workouts that will help you lay the foundations so you can reach an all-new peak with DRT4.

So — are you ready to train like a true athlete?

Included in Premium Membership

Unlock High Performance

$179/ year

Gain access to the DRT High Performance Program, along with every other Base & Premium program — including DRT 1–5, Strength Roadmap, Upper Body Alignment, Core Stability, Yoga, and many more. Instant access and full use of our mobile app.

We'll notify you before renewal so you can cancel then, or at any time you choose.

Instant Access

On-Demand Training

25,000+ Participants

With this program you will…

Maintain your hard-won DRT fitness
Apply true athletic periodisation to your training
Recalibrate and rebuild your foundations
Enjoy 36 brand-new workouts for fresh variety
Avoid fatigue, burn-out and injury
Prepare to reach an all-new peak with DRT4
Full use of our mobile app, anywhere

Nicola Smith, founder of Dressage Rider Training

And in case we haven't met…

Hi, I'm Nicola Smith.

I've dedicated the majority of my life to being a rider and fitness trainer with Dressage Rider Training. Having guided you through DRT1, 2 & 3, I built the High Performance Program so you can train the way true athletes do — with proper periodisation, not endless peaking.

HPF is my gift to you: a chance to recalibrate, rebuild your foundations, and keep your hard-won fitness while we prepare for an all-new peak together with DRT4.

Bachelor of Physical Education & Exercise Prescription, Otago University
CHEK Level 2 Practitioner
Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner

The same guarantee applies

A 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

This program has the same guarantee as always. If you find it doesn't meet your expectations, you can ask for a full and complete refund within 30 days — no questions asked. I really want you to be happy with this program.

Still wondering? Let's clear it up.

It is designed as your pre-season strategy — a chance to come back to basics, recalibrate, and rebuild your foundations after completing DRT1, 2 & 3, before reaching a new peak with DRT4.

So — are you ready?

Train like a true athlete.

Give yourself the pre-season every great athlete relies on. Recalibrate, rebuild your foundations, and keep your hard-won DRT fitness with 36 brand-new workouts — so you arrive at DRT4 ready to reach an all-new peak.

Proper periodisation is what keeps you shining season after season, without fatigue, burn-out, or injury. This is your time.

Let's do this.

Your pre-season starts the moment you join.