Bodycare

Prevent and treat swimming injuries with our expert advice. Ease neck, shoulder, and hip pain with stretches and exercises from renowned swim coaches. Strengthen your core and shoulders with our step-by-step Move of the Month. Care for your skin while swimming outdoors with sun protection and moisturizing bath products. Boost endurance with yoga flows and better breathing techniques. This collection helps you protect your body while becoming a stronger swimmer.

Body care: skin protection creams

Being outdoors in the colder months can be tough on our skin. Try these skin protection creams and repair balms…
Body care: Swimmers’ shampoo

Hair can really suffer with regular swimming in chlorine or salt. Freshwater can improve hair, but regardless we all like…
Move of the month: Dead Bug

This exercise is great for swimmers looking to improve their body position in the water, strengthening and stabilising your core…
How to strengthen and protect your neck

Swimming specialist physiotherapist Alex Ewart your guide to preventing a problem that afflicts many swimmers: neck pain.
What’s the cause of my hip pain while swimming?

Swimming coach Cassie Patten troubleshoots a reader's hip pain, and shares some tips for preventing further discomfort.
Move of the month: dumbbell overhead press

This exercise increases the strength of our shoulder by working the deltoids.
How to keep your shoulders healthy

Swimming specialist physiotherapist Alex Ewart looks at what works and what doesn’t for preventing shoulder injury.
How swimmers can protect their skin from the sun

Protecting your skin from the sun while outdoor swimming can be challenging. Read our guide to how to protect your…
Move of the month: Bent-over row

This move helps strengthen and stabilise the shoulders, and protect from repetitive overhead movements in front crawl.
A short daily yoga and breathing practice

These restorative yoga poses allow you to explore your breath from different angles, says Liz Lowe.
Move of the month: Donkey Kicks

Vivienne Rickman is your guide to a move that strengthens lower back muscles and promotes good posture – an ideal…
Move of the month: Leg Raises

Leg raises are a core strengthener that target the abdominal muscles. Vivienne Rickman is your guide. This month’s move is…
How to breathe better

Liz Lowe offers tips and simple exercises for better breathing, which can help with tiredness, tension or anxiety, and boost…
Move of the month: woodchop

Having strong core muscles is important in all our swimming strokes as it is in many functional movements in our…
Bath products for swimmers

Nothing warms you through, soothes aching muscles and eases tension like a good soak after a cold water swim. Read…
Take a seaweed bath

While you’re down by the water, why not gather ingredients for a restorative seaweed bath?
Move of the month: Floor Angels

Vivienne Rickman is your guide to a stretch that ease tightness in shoulders after a cold-water swim.
Soak your body and mind with TRIHARD

Despite spending a lot of time in the water I still love to get home from a swim and plunge…
Yoga for open water swimmers – Part 2

Part two of a series of yoga exercises to help improve your swimming both physically and mentally
Yoga for open water swimmers – Part 1

Part one of a series of yoga exercises to help improve your swimming both physically and mentally
BODY CARE: Friction creams and balms

Friction creams and balms are useful for not only wetsuit chafing but also for areas where your swimwear can rub.…
Move of the month: glute bridges

Viv Rickman has your expert guide to glute bridges – to increase core stability in the water, stabilise the lower back…
Swimmer’s Itch – protective measures, detection and treatment

Susie Symes is your guide to protecting yourself against cercarial dermatitis, also known as swimmer's itch.