Features
Features
- Counter the cold swimmer hunch
- Event review: Great Fjord Swim
- NOWCA launches bright new badges to celebrate your winter swims
- Where cold water meets the mind
- The buoyancy you’ve never actually built
- Overtraining? How to spot you’re pushing yourself too hard
- Give your winter a goal
- Build cold-water confidence with swimming and sauna
Cold Water Swimming
- NOWCA launches bright new badges to celebrate your winter swims
- Where cold water meets the mind
- Give your winter a goal
- Build cold-water confidence with swimming and sauna
- Static cooling: How to ice bath properly
- What cold water mastery really means
- Masters of winter
- You don’t have to love cold water swimming to be a ‘proper’ outdoor swimmer
View from the water
- You don’t have to love cold water swimming to be a ‘proper’ outdoor swimmer
- You don’t need to travel to find extreme environments, says Simon Griffiths
- Learning to love the pool
- Simon Griffiths: my take on tech
- How to plan your own swim adventure
- Inside the campaign for Thames bathing water status
- Help improve the quality of Britain’s waterways
- The thrill (and fear) of night swimming
Readers’ Swims
- Fifty, fuelled and finally across the finish line
- Two swimmers, one memorable weekend
- From the shallow end to the Serpentine: Learning to swim at 65
- Just keep swimming: the year I went open water
- Going against the Flow in France
- Lev Goldberg conquers second of North America’s Great Lakes in historic quest
You Ask, We Answer
- Does my age affect how I acclimatise to cold water?
- How do I get back to open water swimming with long Covid?
- “How do I fit swim training around my busy work schedule?”
- How do I prepare myself mentally and physically for my first open water event?
- What are the best pool drills for improving open water skills?
- What are swimming drills?
- Getting back on track with swim training
- What are sneaker waves?
































