Sit Stay Squat Academy
Evidence-informed movement support for dogs, cats, and the people who love them.
At Sit Stay Squat, our courses are designed to help you better understand your pet’s body, build strength safely, and support lifelong comfort, mobility, and function. Whether you’re starting with puppy fitness, supporting a senior dog, exploring feline fitness, or learning hands-on bodywork skills, our programs combine exercise science, companion animal behavior, and practical education you can apply right away.
Canine Fitness Programs
Choose the program that best matches your dog.
These structured conditioning programs combine anatomy education, safety guidelines, and progressive workouts designed to improve posture, movement quality, strength, coordination, and long-term musculoskeletal health.
All canine fitness programs follow the same alignment-based framework, with exercises and education adapted to different life stages and body types.
Canine Conditioning Course
Learn the foundations of structured canine fitness, including posture, body awareness, strength, mobility, stability, and exercise progression. Includes educational lessons, step-by-step video tutorials, printable workouts, and progressive routines for healthy dogs.
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Puppy Fitness Foundations
Support your puppy’s age-appropriate movement, posture, body awareness, and coordination during the first year of life. This course introduces puppy development, safe exercise guidelines, enrichment, and structured fitness workouts for growing dogs.
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Senior Dog Fitness
Learn gentle, age-appropriate fitness concepts for supporting posture, mobility, body awareness, comfort, and daily function in aging dogs. Includes senior dog workouts, mindful touch techniques, enrichment ideas, and practical guidance for older bodies.
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Little Leg (Long Back) Fitness
Learn structure-informed fitness for dogs with long backs and short limbs. This course introduces posture, spinal stability, core strength, body awareness, and progressive exercise planning for Dachshunds, Corgis, Basset Hounds, and other short-legged dogs.
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Fitness and enrichment designed specifically for cats.
This course combines feline-appropriate training, anatomy education, cat enrichment guidelines, and progressive fitness exercises designed to improve body awareness, strength, balance, and overall wellbeing.
Feline Fitness Course
Support your cat’s strength, mobility, body awareness, and confidence in movement through structured exercise and enrichment. This course includes feline anatomy, exercise principles, positive reinforcement-based training, and step-by-step feline fitness workouts.
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These courses build advanced movement skills that support fitness training, coordination, and everyday handling.
Develop body awareness, limb control, and precise paw-targeting skills that support conditioning exercises, confident movement, and cooperative-care training.
Find 4 Feet: Paw Targeting Course
Build coordination, body awareness, stability, and clear foot placement through structured paw target training. This course guides dogs from foundational front and rear feet targeting to individual paw targeting, limb lifts, and advanced movement skills.
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Paw Pod Precision
Learn how to introduce individual foot targeting and Paw Pod exercises with clear, progressive instruction. This course supports coordination, body awareness, stabilizer strength, and controlled paw placement through structured targeting exercises.
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Canine Band Stability Training
Learn how to use elastic bands as low-load, direction-specific stabilization tools. This course introduces alignment control, core stability, anti-movement concepts, band setup, vector direction, and conservative progression for dogs with established foundation skills.
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Canine Scratch Board Nail Care Course
Teach cooperative scratch board nail care using body awareness, paw targeting, and positive reinforcement-based training. This course introduces canine claw anatomy, paw mechanics, and step-by-step skills for helping dogs voluntarily file their own nails.
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Support your dog’s muscular health and comfort through force-free massage and trigger point techniques.
This course teaches guardians how to safely use massage to reduce muscular tension, improve mobility, and deepen connection with their dog through positive touch.
Canine Massage Course
Learn gentle, force-free canine massage skills that can help ease muscular tension and support relaxation. Includes anatomy foundations, fascia, massage techniques, trigger point concepts, and full-body follow-along routines.
Take This CourseHuman & Canine Movement
Strengthen the bond between you and your dog through shared movement experiences.
These courses focus on fun partner exercises where you and your dog move together – using your body as the equipment – building strength, mobility, and connection.
Workout with your Dog
Enjoy structured human-and-canine partner workouts at home. This program combines circuit-style fitness exercises, dog-friendly movement skills, video tutorials, modifications, and demonstrations with dogs of different sizes.
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DOGA: Dog Yoga
Share yoga-inspired partner movement with your dog through positive reinforcement-based exercises. Routines combine human yoga poses with dog-friendly movement skills such as circling around, crawling under, or jumping over you.
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