This man swims to work everyday to avoid traffic (Photos)

We all wish we had the discipline to drag ourselves out of bed for a spot of exercise before the commute to work.

An ingenious German man has found a way to combine the two by swimming to the office in the morning with his laptop, wallet and clothes in tow in a waterproof bag.


For the last two years, Benjamin David, 40, has dodged the stress of traffic lights and stressed out drivers by swimming over a mile to work down the river Isar in Munich instead.

‘I’m not a monk… When I was on my bike, I would yell at cars,’ he told CBC. ‘When I was on foot, I would yell at cyclists, and so on and so forth.
‘And just a few metres to the side of that is the river, and if you just swim down that, it’s completely relaxed and refreshing.’