A sedentary bear and athletic horse were friends who met weekly to share stories. The horse explained to the bear the health benefits of exercise, including a lower resting heart rate. Despite this, the bear preferred his sedentary lifestyle. Later, when they were chased by a lion, the bear could not keep up due to his lack of exercise, but the horse led the lion on a long chase until it was too tired to continue. The horse convinced the bear he should exercise regularly to avoid future dangers due to fatigue or health problems. The bear agreed to start exercising.

1. Our Fable
Once upon a time in a lush forest, inhabited by a very sedentary bear who was very fond of a
thoroughbred white horse. They used to gather every weekend to tell each other their
adventures. In one of their usual meetings, the thoroughbred horse worried, asked the
sedentary bear how was he feeling. The sedentary bear replied him that he felt great siting on
the sofa watching TV and playing games. After the bear’s reply the thoroughbred white horse
told him.
“My dear friend we are pumping machines that supply blood, oxygen and nutrients to all the
cells of our body.” He followed, “ We as machines are almost perfect, and we adapt our
physical 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 are
faced with intense activities they reduce the frequency of their beats in order to create a margin
security that allow them to cope with the voltage limit.
The bear was really amazed, and he asked his friend the thoroughbred horse what rate he
though the bear would have. The horse answered him that the owner of the animal that perform
regular exercise has around 70-80 beats per minute while a owner that performs extreme
exercise like his own owner had around 60 beats per minute. The bear again asked why that
rate difference, and the horse said that owners who do extreme exercise have a risk to reach a
rhythm of 200 beats per minute and that rhythm can not be maintained for long time, so that the
animal have to adapt and dwindle the beats to avoid collapse. He stated, “ for that reason my
dear friend, animals that do regular exercise will have an average of 60 per minutes”. The bear
said “ 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 will
reach 42.048.000 beats while mine will be 31.536.000”. The bear amazed asked him the
consequences of that big difference. The great black horse smiling, replied to him that he would
have less chances to get a heart attack than the lazy bear that were always lying and watching
TV.

2. Creation
But the sedentary bear, told his friend that even all these great benefits he would rather keep
his good habits of watching TV and playing video games, because regular exercise was not
made for him.
Suddenly they spot a herd of animals running in terror. Within seconds the two animals were
able to see a fierce hungry lion looking for prey to eat. With great panic in their eyes, they fled
in terror. But as much as the bear ran, he could not keep up, because he was not used to
regular exercise. His great friend the horse thoroughbred aware that the fierce lion would hunt
down the tired bear, devised a plan. He knew that the lion did not train as much, as him, so the
horse knew he could attract the attention of the lion to run behind the healthy and athletic horse
and wear him down. So, the sedentary bear could have time to hide. Therefore the horse did
not hesitate to star running in front of the beast to make him tired, and after half an hour
running 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 for
saving his life. The horse gave him a big hug of support but at the same time added; “ now you
know, that you have to do regular exercise, my dear friend. First, you will last longer because
your beats rates are going to be less that your usual beats rhythm, and second because you
can avoid being cached by a healthier animal”. The bear promised him that he would start
doing 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.

3. Gathering every weekend

4. The great black horse smiling,
replied to him that….

5. The lion, exhausted, quit on the
idea to have horse as a lunch that
day…

8. The end