"I believe swimming can't support you your whole life and I want something to fall back on, " she says.

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Though I am no expert when it comes to swimming, I certainly can apply my overall fitness knowledge to many different physical endeavors.

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Sometimes if I finish in time I can take my son either to swimming or Tae Kwan Do and my daughter may have a basketball game, so I go to that.

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"I think seeing a shark is enough to just get you swimming as fast as you can back to the beach, " the son said.

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But, if you want to be the best in your circle of friends or in the top five percent in the U.S. population at golf, swimming, Spanish, Japanese, whatever it might be, I firmly believe that you can accomplish that in most cases six months or less.

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