Bonnie Tsui's new book 'Why We Swim' seeks to remind us that humankind once sprang from — and still seeks — water. 'Even if we can't get in the water right now,' she says, 'the ocean will be waiting for us.'
But writer Bonnie Tsui reminds us that humankind also once sprang from — and still seeks — water.
I liked the story very much, because it is just the distillation of what makes swimming so special for humans. And it's that we have to learn how to swim. We have to teach ourselves how to swim. We're not born knowing how to do it instinctively. And yet there are traces of that evolutionary past still within us — our evolutionary past that came from the sea.
And certainly we need a lot of energy stores, the white fat, to make it, to swim long distances, to survive the cold water and to have the endurance. But the brown fat is what produces heat energy. And so, you know, swimmers like Lynne Cox — this legendary cold-water, long-distance swimmer — she's done a lot of experiments. She's participated a lot of studies that show her body to be quite remarkable in that respect.One of the sections of the book is on competition.
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