Category: Winter Swimming
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Swedish Lapland Stories: Ep. 23 — Rachel and the Good Swim
Rachel Davies has lived and worked in Abisko, Swedish Lapland for some years. And being a swimmer this means she had to adopt to cold water. So she did. Watch this video on YouTube
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Ice Swimming Challenge | 5 Minutes in 0.9°C Water
For this months Propulsion Swimming Challenge we were invited by Ice Swimming World Champion, John Myatt to experience his ice barrel at ice HQ. John uses this barrel to help aclimatise his body to the freezing water temperatures he faces when competing in Ice swimming! We spent a 5 minutes each in the water, which…
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Forming A New Habit – Cold Water Swimming
Overcoming the challenges of embedding a new habit… Watch this video on YouTube
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Meet The Superhuman Wim Hof: The Iceman
Wim Hof first caught the attention of scientists when he proved he was able to use meditation to stay submerged in ice for 1 hour and 53 minutes without his core body temperature changing. Since then, he’s climbed Mount Everest in his shorts, resisted altitude sickness, completed a marathon in the Namib Desert with no…
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Keri-anne Payne joins the Sub-10 Club with her first cold water swim at London Royal Docks
What happened when Olympic silver medallist ands double world open water 10k champion Keri-anne Payne went cold water swimming with Outdoor Swimmer editor Jonathan Cowie… Watch this video on YouTube
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Why These Two Swimmers Chose To Swim In Dangerously Cold Temperatures
Every year, the Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival in Vermont brings swimmers from around the country to participate in a winter swim competition in frigid waters. Local swimmers Laurie and Amy Craigen went up this year with a group from the L Street Bath House in South Boston to join the tradition. They joined Jim Braude…
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“Go for your dreams” – Cape freediver breaks world record to inspire hope
SA diver Amber Fillary set a new world record by freediving 70 metres under the ice in one breath, all for mental health awareness. The Capetonian broke the Guinness World Record for freediving distance under ice wearing only a bikini and a swimming cap in 2 °C waters. She braved the near-freezing conditions in Norway…
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International Womens Day Sunrise Swim Portobello, Edinburgh 2020
Donna Giffen, international Fitness Presenter, take the first-ever dip in the North Sea during International Womens Day Sunrise Swim in Portobello, Scotland. Watch this video on YouTube
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Winter Swim Biathlon 2020
Winter Swim Biathlon 2020, RadeÅ¡Ãnská Svratka, biatlon, závod, otužilci, 6.3.2020 Watch this video on YouTube