MANY brave souls will have seen in the New Year or celebrated Christmas or St Stephen's Day with a cold water swim in the sea, or a river or lough. Even the thought of getting into the water in an ...

The snow has packed ice-hard, a freezing wind snatches the breath and the sky is a relentless iron slab. Only a fool would take off all their clothes in these conditions. I am that fool, and I'm not ...

With the colder months approaching, Beyond Swim have launched their guidance for accredited venues to support them in delivering safe cold water swimming opportunities. Beyond Swim is a Triathlon ...

Many people see in the New Year or celebrate Christmas or St. Stephens' Day with a cold water swim – often in fancy dress or just a swimsuit to get chilly in the winter water. "Research suggests that ...

Cold water swimming is growing in popularity among women but more support is needed to make wild bathing sites safer and more accessible, a study has found. A team of researchers, led by experts from ...

There’s growing evidence that cold water swimming can help treat symptoms of anxiety and depression. (Picture: William Fawcett fotoVoyager.com) 2020 has been a difficult year, to put it lightly. Not ...

Mike Tipton is a Council member of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and a Trustee of Surf Lifesaving GB. Heather Massey is a patron of Swim the Wight CIC. With the growth in outdoor swimming ...

Cold water swimming has surged in popularity recently, with a growing body of science backing up its health benefits – and now research suggests it could help alleviate menopause symptoms, too. A team ...

In case you didn’t get the memo: the cold-water swimming craze is officially here to stay. What arguably started as a lockdown trend — wild swimming in lakes, seas and rivers because we couldn’t use ...

Watching the Baltimore Ravens play the Tennessee Titans in an NFL game in London recently in temperatures close to freezing, fans in the stadium must have felt cold, but the players must have felt ...

The annual Christmas Day swim is a well-established tradition. While there are several perceived health benefits for swimming in cold water, recent research suggests differently I love to swim.