Peter Attia· MD
i learned to swim as an adult i guess we could sit here and debate whether swimming is innate to our species it seems there's probably a very early window in which if you're exposed to swimming when you're you know a few months old it tends to come naturally but certainly anyone who's watched a five-year-old who's never swim you realize it doesn't look too innate but nevertheless i'm 31 when i'm learning to swim and the only way i could really do it was to understand the technique and do it in very short bursts with lots of rest so that my technique wouldn't deteriorate which basically amounted to doing a lot of drills and never really swimming more than 50 yards or 50 meters at a time until i slowly learned how to piece those together