How is it possible for Twilight to read and stay in shape?

[Jeric 46,852]

Yes. I'm not going win any lifting contests, but I'm slender and still in decent physical shape (medically speaking). I'm a voracious reader as well who is constantly enrolled in college forcing me to always write and study.

 

If was going to use this for a blog but

 

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,596]

Most likely she reads super fast, she seems like the definite pony to be able to do that, along with Moon Dancer. Honestly, this question seems a bit more for Moon Dancer before Twilight met her again. She seemed to be reading books non-stop, which Twilight doesn't seem to do.

[Once In A Blue Moon 895]

 

 

Horses can stand around all day and do nothing but chew and still be in great shape.

 

 

If we're comparing to real horses and ponies then it varies according to the sub-species. Most ponies have a tendency to balloon if they aren't exercised extremely regularly (and some even when they are - juggling greedy ponies between pastures see-sawing between 'too much grass' and 'too much mud' was a fixture of my teenage years.) And then there are some hunters that are turned out for months at a time, and then go galloping around without any (apparent) trouble after only a week or two of fitness training.

[blackstarraven 142]

 

 

If we're comparing to real horses and ponies then it varies according to the sub-species. Most ponies have a tendency to balloon if they aren't exercised extremely regularly (and some even when they are - juggling greedy ponies between pastures see-sawing between 'too much grass' and 'too much mud' was a fixture of my teenage years.) And then there are some hunters that are turned out for months at a time, and then go galloping around without any (apparent) trouble after only a week or two of fitness training.

 

 

 

Interesting....

We raised therabeads horses and large draft horses.

Interesting to see that Ponies work a different way.

[Once In A Blue Moon 895]

We raised therabeads horses and large draft horses. Interesting to see that Ponies work a different way.

 

In my experience at least, ponies are really greedy. It might be that most of the ones I met were (UK) natives or native-crosses (so Welsh Sections, Shetlands, Exmoors  and the like) who in their natural conditions survive on barren hills / desolate moors / etc. so if you put them in well-maintained fields with plenty of grass then they will get rather fat in preparation for a harsh winter that isn't coming.

 

Thoroughbreds from warmer climates probably burn a lot more energy without the inches of fur that most of our natives grow, so that might be why they don't have as many weight issues.

 

And then there are carthorse-types - we had one (a Clydesdale-cross we think, but we don't know exactly) that was somewhere in between - he wasn't as greedy as the ponies, but he had a more solid build and thicker fur than the thoroughbreds, and he only put on weight if he wasn't exercised; it didn't really matter if he had plenty of grass.

 

That's my theory anyway. Ponies need management and exercise, carthorses horses just need exercise and all thoroughbreds need is their own reflection to chase them around the field for a few hours*.

 

 

 

 

*or maybe I've only met the neurotic ones. I'm more of a carthorse type myself - nothing like a half ton wall of horse to make cars give way.   

Edited March 17, 2017 by Once In A Blue Moon

[Malcontent 196]

There's like one fat pony xD so the diet of the society seems to be balanced xD 

[ThunderCrush 1,850]

I think it's obvious that she stays in shape because whenever she isn't studying, she is running around solving friendship problems. That is a lot of exercise gained throughout the day. So she simply lives in active learning and motion of being fit.