But there's much more to open-water swimming than being a good workout. Like many others who have taken up wild swimming in later life, my journey towards becoming a cold-water convert started with ...

Keen to keep training in open water this off-season? Then you might want to try one of the new guard of thermal swimming wetsuits. Helen Webster puts five to the ...

On a frigid, 17-degree Sunday in early February, a group of swimsuit-clad Harpswellians gathered at Tide Mill Cove Neck to ...

What is cold water swimming? Cold water swimming refers to swimming in cold, natural bodies of water (usually 15 degrees or below) such as rivers, lakes or the sea. It is sometimes also called open ...

Readers and viewers of Amy Liptrot’s memoir, The Outrun, and Nora Fingscheidt’s film adaptation, will recall the powerful scenes of cold water swimming. The book and film engagingly depict ...

Founder Sarah, Wendy and Jo tell Noush how transformative the community has been for them.

Cold water swimming is growing so fast that hundreds of Britons now belong to a local outdoor swimming group – with many others going independently, according to new estimates. Most of these ...

Cold plunges Here are the benefits and drawbacks of this trend.

There are different ways to try it, including taking a cold shower, swimming outdoors in an unheated pool or lake, river or the sea, getting into an ice bath or a cold plunge pool in a spa or gym.

Claire Hilbers, 46, of Chagrin Falls does regular polar plunges and competed in the sixth International Ice Swimming Association World Championships in Molveno, Italy in January.