The hardest challenge:
Ok Mr Lichte,

I took the hardest challenge of things that you don’t like. It think you even hate this kind of movement and this is my attempt to convince you that sport is a good thing that everyone of us should do sometimes or regularly.
First of all we have do define the word sport and analyze it with its kinds of movements. And so there have to be differences between the kinds of sports which are dangerous for you and especially your bones!
I think about team-sports like football, basketball and so on and the extreme sports like bungee jumping or rock climbing. Of course, these sports are breakneck and I agree with you that sports from this point of view are very bad.
But think about the sports which aren’t dangerous like jogging or riding your bike. I think it’s really difficult to break your leg while jogging. Isn’t it?
You have to be very stupid to achieve that with jogging. And I think that you aren’t stupid. Sports don’t have to be dangerous things and jogging or riding have the same effect like team sports. The typical and boring argument for sport is that you get fitter if you do it sometimes and, by the way, you can lose weight. The experts say that sport is good for your health and I think that’s right because in the past I had to go by bike for 4 kilometres to the bus stop every day. Since I have my driving license for a motor-bike I didn’t do real sports anymore. And now I can feel that I’m not fit as in the past, especially in the sports lessons because my condition is not so good anymore. I think at this point you’ll say that you don’t need condition because you don’t do sports but with this little story that happened in my life I want to prove that sport keeps fit!
This slogan “sport keeps fit” was or is (I don’t know) an advertising slogan of a health insurance scheme and if the members of this health insurance scheme can prove that they do regular sports they get some gifts or reduction of the subscription. So you can save money when you do sports! But it’s required that you are at the right health insurance scheme.
And the most powerful argument to convince you is really incredible. I learned it in the last chemistry lesson and first I didn’t believe it but it’s true and only this argument gave me the reason to write this text. I knew that you don’t hear or read the last arguments for the first time and so I needed an argument which goes deeper in the whole thing sport.
Everybody is in his life sometimes, often or always stressed. It doesn’t matter whether you get stressed in your job or in your family it’s always the same because at that moment when you get nervous or stressed your body turns out the hormone adrenaline into your circulation. This stuff makes your body prefer to support your muscles with oxygen and nutrients in order to give your body more power and condition in dangerous situations. But the bad thing is that adrenalin makes your body neglect its support of your internal organs with oxygen and nutrients.
This undersupply is the reason for a bad feeling or pain in your stomach. And here is the connection to sport. The only way to put the adrenaline out of your body is doing sports because the adrenaline is in the sweat which gets out of your body or you have to cry a very long time because it can also be in tears. And that’s the reason why women cry when they are stressed. Those are the qualities of adrenaline and here are the consequences if you leave the adrenaline in your body. The reason for the pain in your stomach is that the mucous membrane of the stomach gets smaller. Then the stomach acid attacks the stomach from the inside and the consequence is pain. When you have this little ache over a long time and you do nothing against it you’ll get stomach ulcers which can became a tumour.
In the most extreme way the adrenaline can lead to death!
I think this argument is really heavy and a little bit exaggerated but think about it! 
I hope that I could change your opinion about sports a little bit especially with the last argument. Maybe you’ll take your bike more often or at least you think more about sport.
Elmar Haschen, 11b, Jever