There are many reasons to look askance at Goldilocks and the Three Bears. What is up with a little girl barging into people’s houses? And what kind of parents don’t comfort their little one when disaster strikes? And what laws of physics govern the temperature of porridge anyway? These issues aside, Goldilocks has one useful thing to demonstrate to us in our fitness journey: the just right.
I’m sure we all know the feeling we get when we overdo the workout. We curse whoever invented stairs. We count the seconds until we can have another dose of ibuprofen. We vow never to move again, ever. That would be the Papa Bear Too Hot Porridge problem.
But we also know the feeling when we’ve been stuck at our desks too long. Our backs whine at us. Our hips freeze in an uncomfortable bent position. We know exactly what our shoulders sound like because they are glued up by our ears. This is the Mama Bear Too Cold Porridge problem.
We want to aim for Baby Bear. Goldilocks likes Baby Bear’s choices. Baby Bear works out enough that he is not too sore but enough that he’s not too stiff either. He is tired enough at the end of the day to sleep well in his just right bed. Of all the people in the story, it is Baby Bear who is most likely to live happily ever after, once he gets some breakfast and fixes his chair.
Be like Baby Bear.
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