Once upon a time, a village became worried about the fitness of its children, so the villagers built a brand new gymnasium, and filled it with all the latest equipment. They had cross trainers, steppers, pecs machines, dumbbells – and loads more.
Every day, after school, the children would walk down to the gym, sit quietly on the floor and learn about the equipment. They studied the history of the cross trainer and the construction of the pecs machine, and they calculated the weight of the dumbbells. Every so often they were tested on the knowledge they had gained, and they did pretty well (except for a long tail of children who didn’t). But to the puzzlement of the villagers, they did not seem to be getting any fitter.
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