Dear Swimmer

Thought playing was just for children? It's most definitely for adults, too. It can enhance your learning, help you acquire skills, reduce stress and improve your enjoyment and motivation.

Summer is the time for playing in the water - for fun, joy, bonding with friends and family and engaging more consistently with training.

And, with our very special digital subscription offer, you can play more this summer. Try your first month for just 99p and then £39.99 a year. 

Whether you want to get fitter and faster, feel more motivated or improve your wellbeing, we share loads of tips and advice in every issue. With a digital subscription, you get new magazines when they're published, access to our entire back catalogue, bookmark the articles you want to come back to, and listen to the audio magazine on the go, on holiday, or sunbathing in the garden.

BRING BACK PLAYFULNESS

Somewhere along life’s journey, playfulness gets lost. Simon Griffiths tells us how he went through a spell when swimming was only about training and performance because, why waste precious minutes on something as frivolous as play?

Hopefully at this point you are shaking you’re head and thinking something like, how could anyone forget that outdoor swimming should be carefree, joyful and playful? But if you have relegated playfulness in swimming to something from your childhood, Simon encourages you to resurface it.

Subscribe and then go to our July 2023 issue all about childhood nostalgia to find out how.