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Does outdoor swimming make Raynaud’s worse?
Raynaud’s symptoms generally disappear when you warm up, but many swimmers are concerned that a repeated triggering of symptoms could…
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How to deal with your barriers to swimming outdoors
Outdoor swimming has barriers to overcome before you experience the benefits. It's better to acknowledge them rather than pretend they…
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How to tell if you’re hypothermic when swimming in cold water
You asked I am a fairly experienced winer swimmer and recently converted to wetsuits in order to get more swimming…
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Top Six Outdoor Swimming Books
This is by no means a definitive list of outdoor swimming books: it is a personal selection confined by the books…
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How dangerous is lightning to swimmers?
Can you swim in a thunderstorm? Are you safe beside the water? How can you avoid lightning strikes when swimming?…
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Top tips on getting race-ready before the summer
With a large number of outdoor swim events and races taking place in the summer, the beginning of the year…
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Five top tips to start – and stay – outdoor swimming
Swimming outdoors is no easy feat, at any time of the year. Unlike swimming in a pool, there are a…
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Keep calm and carry on – and other sea swimming tips
Sea swimming tips aimed at swimmers taking part in near-shore organised swim events or wild swimming rather than long-distance sea…
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7.5km Training Session (about 2.5 hours)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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How can I improve my breaststroke so I can swim faster?
Our resident Olympian Cassie Patten answers your swimming questions
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7km Training Session (~2+ hrs)
To complete this as written, you should be capable of swimming repeatedly 100m off 90secs
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10km open water training plan
A training plan for those contemplating taking on the 10k Marathon distance in open water
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What are your tips for recovering after a marathon swim?
Our resident Olympian answers your swimming questions
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Don’t try this if you have a fragile ego
For most of us, comparing our swim times with those of the best swimmers in the world is far from…
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Flippin’ Fintastic
Two fins-based training sets to improve your leg position, strength and kic
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Embrace the medley – session 3
Add other strokes to your training will enhance your strength, fitness and swimming ability.
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How to use FINIS Bolster Hand Paddles
The Finis Bolster Paddle is another odd looking piece of kit from Finis but with some good thinking behind it.
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Any tips on sighting? Sighting frequency/ navigating in general?
Our resident Olympian answers your swimming questions
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Cold water swimming: your questions answered
Swimmer and scientist perspectives on ice swimming
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Take your training outside – week 1
Make the most of your outdoor swimming with our weekly training plans
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Finis Freestyle Snorkel – Sample training set
The Finis Freestyle Snorkel has been designed to allow swimmers to separate breathing movements from other elements of the stroke…
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Fine-tune your catch
Which paddles to use to work on your catch and pull technique
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How to warm up on land for swimming
Your swim needs to start before you hit the water
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Last hurrah – session 3
The third of four end of season training sessions
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5 ways to train SMART
Keep motivated through the winter by training SMART
