Our FableOnce upon a time in a lush forest, inhabited by a very sedentary bear who was very fond of athoroughbred white horse. They used to gather every weekend to tell each other theiradventures. In one of their usual meetings, the thoroughbred horse worried, asked thesedentary bear how was he feeling. The sedentary bear replied him that he felt great siting onthe sofa watching TV and playing games. After the bear’s reply the thoroughbred white horsetold him.

“My dear friend we are pumping machines that supply blood, oxygen and nutrients to all thecells of our body.” He followed, “ We as machines are almost perfect, and we adapt ourphysical effort depending on the intensity at which we are forced to work”.

The bear quite interested, was listening to the horse story. The horse stated that when they arefaced with intense activities they reduce the frequency of their beats in order to create a marginsecurity that allow them to cope with the voltage limit.

The bear was really amazed, and he asked his friend the thoroughbred horse what rate hethough the bear would have. The horse answered him that the owner of the animal that performregular exercise has around 70-80 beats per minute while a owner that performs extremeexercise like his own owner had around 60 beats per minute. The bear again asked why thatrate difference, and the horse said that owners who do extreme exercise have a risk to reach arhythm of 200 beats per minute and that rhythm can not be maintained for long time, so that theanimal have to adapt and dwindle the beats to avoid collapse. He stated, “ for that reason mydear friend, animals that do regular exercise will have an average of 60 per minutes”. The bearsaid “ well 20 beats per minute is nothing my dear friend, so I will keep my sedentary routine”.The horse answered, “ well, my friend, but if you count your beats in a year time your beats willreach 42.048.000 beats while mine will be 31.536.000”. The bear amazed asked him theconsequences of that big difference. The great black horse smiling, replied to him that he wouldhave less chances to get a heart attack than the lazy bear that were always lying and watchingTV.

Creation

But the sedentary bear, told his friend that even all these great benefits he would rather keephis good habits of watching TV and playing video games, because regular exercise was notmade for him.

Suddenly they spot a herd of animals running in terror. Within seconds the two animals wereable to see a fierce hungry lion looking for prey to eat. With great panic in their eyes, they fledin terror. But as much as the bear ran, he could not keep up, because he was not used toregular exercise. His great friend the horse thoroughbred aware that the fierce lion would huntdown the tired bear, devised a plan. He knew that the lion did not train as much, as him, so thehorse knew he could attract the attention of the lion to run behind the healthy and athletic horseand wear him down. So, the sedentary bear could have time to hide. Therefore the horse didnot hesitate to star running in front of the beast to make him tired, and after half an hourrunning after the horse, the lion, exhausted, quit on the idea to have horse as a lunch that day.Short after, when the lion disappeared, the bear appeared crying thanking his dearest friend forsaving his life. The horse gave him a big hug of support but at the same time added; “ now youknow, that you have to do regular exercise, my dear friend. First, you will last longer becauseyour beats rates are going to be less that your usual beats rhythm, and second because youcan avoid being cached by a healthier animal”. The bear promised him that he would startdoing exercise and the horse was happy for his friend’s wise decision.

Moral of a fable:

If you practice regular exercise, it will prevent you from getting great scares in your life.

Gathering every weekend

The great black horse smiling,

replied to him that….

The lion, exhausted, quit on the

idea to have horse as a lunch that

day…

The end