Cold water does more than wake up the body. It wakes the mind, and the mind decides how the race goes just as much as the body, if not more so. Swimmers carry this belief because that first shock of ...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — Hypothermia isn’t something I usually associate with Arizona. But there I was, searching for the spot in the pool where I could stand. Beside me were a pair of 6-foot-4 baseball ...

It’s 8am and I’m standing at the edge of my local lake at Beckenham Place Park in London, the early morning sun just beginning to peek over the trees. A layer of mist is rising from the cold water and ...

If you live near a body of water in the northern latitudes, you likely have heard of your local polar bear club — usually made up of a group of hearty swimmers who take part in cold water swimming.

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When Polina Keyhayova embarked on a basement reno that would include a cold-water plunge pool, she assumed the feature would be the domain of her partner and his sauna-loving cohorts. Instead, it ...

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