Swimming Events Guide 2024
Ice baths
Cold Water Swimming,  EXTRA,  FEATURES,  November 2023

The benefits of ice baths

Rowan Clarke finds out why so many swimmers sit in backyard baths, barrels and tubs full of icy water

Remember lockdown when we couldn’t go swimming and so we got in our wheelie bins instead? Aside from making fun Insta photos, those makeshift tubs played a serious role in helping us cope with being locked down.

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