Wholesome World is a new app (approved by the NHS) that has launched to assist all of your nutritional and home health understanding, alongside pushing the awareness of authorised medicinal research. The app came about after founder, Freyja Hanstein, lost her husband to abdominal Synovial Sarcoma cancer in 2014 and she herself was diagnosed with a brain tumour the following year. In this blog, Freyja shares how the lifestyle app started, and how cold water swimming helped her along the way.

Wim Hof believes that embracing the cold has the ability to change anyone’s life for the better. In this blog, we learn more about how cold exposure has enabled him to advance scientific understanding of the human body. Plus, accomplish extraordinary feats of human endurance, including 21 Guinness World Records. 

We all hear about nutrition and how exercise and diet are necessities for living a healthy lifestyle, but how often do we hear about nutrition specifically for cold water swimming? Eating the correct food before and after a swim can have a huge impact on both performance and recovery – whether you’re a professional swimmer, or a more casual dipper. In this blog, we gain the expert opinion of Robbie Hudson, one of The Wild Swimming Brothers.

The Vitamin Sea Collective is a new community united by the positive benefits of the ocean. Started up by the same team behind SurfGirl, we decided to learn more about the work these women are doing and what inspired them to launch last October.

Cornwall based nutritional therapist and cold water swimmer Grace Kingswell tells us how spending time outdoors has a positive impact on human health. Grace explains the science behind light exposure and why she swims at sunrise.

Yoga teacher and wellbeing coach Florence Gould from Bewaved tells us all about how yoga can make us better swimmers. Flo explains how we can improve flexibility and strength whilst also relieving pressure in the upper body and spine. In this blog, find out which areas of the body are most affected by swimming and the best poses for taking care of them.

We asked our friend and swimming coach Clare Lewis to shed some light on how and why some swimmers experience sea sickness and what they can do to prevent it.

For anyone spending time in the water there is a risk of both Swimmer’s Ear and Surfer’s Ear – particularly in cold water and during the winter months. Each of these conditions has different causes and symptoms which will be outlined in this blog, but both can be extremely painful. However, like all things, by taking the necessary precautions risk can be averted.