May 2025
May 2025 - Swim Lifestyle
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Thirty swims before 30!
Sometimes the best swimming challenges are those we dream up for ourselves. Jodie Hoskin tells us her story
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Live well, swim well – a holistic approach
Fuelling your workouts, balancing your hormones and getting good quality sleep with all improve your performance, says personal trainer Vivienne…
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Best spring suits for swimmers
Shorties, long Janes, neoprene swimsuits: spring suits are a great option for when you don’t need a full suit, ideal…
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Boost your speed and power in the water
Our new contributing coach Nicola Butler has passion for the pool and a lifetime of sporting prowess and experience. This…
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Sensory swimming in May
This is what you can see, hear, smell, touch and taste at the water’s edge this month.
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Get into the flow
Editor Ella Foote is also an open water swim coach, outdoor swim guide and teacher. This month she encourages us…
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Is outdoor swimming a hobby? Therapy? Treatment? Or is it a lifestyle?
For adaptive swimmer Sophie Etheridge, outdoor swimming is the gift that just keeps on giving
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From Udaipur to the UK
New contributor Jharna Kumawat fell in love with open water in India and now swims locally in Essex and Suffolk.…
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Swimming seeps into British culture
Ella Foote dives into a new exhibition celebrating swimming, floats through a lecture about faith and learns about the history…
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Bathing season in the Thames Valley
George Townsend explores the lost swimming places of the Thames Valley
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Swimmable Rivers in London: a bold 10-year vision
An ambitious plan to make London’s rivers swimmable within the next decade
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How to bring open water events and challenges into your training
In May, inland water temperatures in the UK start reaching the point where longer open water swims are possible, if…
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How to care for your wetsuit
How to rinse, wash, repair and store your wetsuit so that it lasts for many seasons to come
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Nuliajuk’s swim
Netflix’s new series, ‘North of North’, brings an Inuit sea goddess to the surface. Words by Elaine K Howley
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On your marks
Rowan Clarke finds out how Olympian Adam Peaty is helping to instill a positive swimming lifestyle in young swimmers
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Lifestyle swimmers
Why is outdoor swimming so much more than a hobby? Rowan Clarke finds out
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Swimming is training for life
Simon Griffiths encourages you to widen your swimming repertoire!
