swimming advice and swim-related

And one on Getting Started in Inland Outdoor Swimming; and see also advice on the difference between pool and open water on the Outdoor Swimmer website.

Free water safety toolkit from the RLSS, story https://outdoorswimmer.com/news/free-water-safety-toolkit-from-the-rlss The Royal Life Saving Society have put some basic water skills training online. It is worth learning some skills and educating yourself to give you confidence in the water. Even young lifesavers can complete the course. The toolkit runs over four units and covers an introduction to water safety, different environments, emergency actions and safe rescue. It is simple to do once you register online, www.rlss.org.uk/take-the-toolkit.

Ideas from the Outdoor Swimming Society #stayathomeswimmingsociety https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/the-oss-stays-in/

‘The Lockdown Diaries’, a daily video https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/staying-in/

From Outdoor Swimmer https://outdoorswimmer.com/blogs/swimspiration-while-in-isolation-in-print and https://outdoorswimmer.com/blogs/5-swim-reads-to-revisit-whilst-you-are-stuck-at-home; https://outdoorswimmer.com/blogs/swimspiration-while-in-isolation-podcasts

Episode 4 of Downstream, Outdoor Swimmer’s audio series for outdoor swimmers: wild swimming and the restorative power of nature https://outdoorswimmer.com/news/episode-4-of-downstream-our-audio-series-for-outdoor-swimmers-this-episode-wild-swimming-and-the-restorative-power-of-nature

Swim podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/floating-swimming-stories-with-joe-minihane/id1467525621

Swim Wild Podcast: Looking back at winter, with Tina from Norfolk – TP052 on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/swim-wild-podcast/id1437178724?i=1000473415007

Swimming books recommended by Serpentine Swimming Club members http://serpentineswimmingclub.com/news/51028/swimming-books-recommended-by-ssc-members?fbclid=IwAR26Mua7oyR8V43toIAGD3_yIMYsGUifKKbXCKfYmvjvtcj3g71UcCoxZyQ

Opinion | What I Miss During the Coronavirus Pandemic https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/sunday/swimming-covid.html

Essay on swimming https://lithub.com/why-do-we-swim/

While you can’t swim https://outdoorswimmer.com/blogs/how-to-cope-with-life-when-you-cant-swim

Ladies Pond gallery https://www.klpa.uk/klpa-lockdown-gallery

Paddling or foot bathing is good for you, and fun when you can’t swim! Thomas Jefferson claimed that 60 years of daily cold foot baths every morning had “maintained his good health”. https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/bathing, also in this article https://theconversation.com/is-a-cold-water-swim-good-for-you-or-more-likely-to-send-you-to-the-bottom-89513  Facebook group devoted to it, The Prudent And Polite Paddling Fellowship https://www.facebook.com/groups/632711013835222/

Safety advice for landowners and authorities with an interest or responsibility for water where people swim or might swim:

From RoSPA, ‘Managing safety at inland waters guidance’, detailed advice https://www.rospa.com/leisure-safety/water/inland/

From the Visitor Safety Group, ‘Guiding Principles’ on balancing visitor access and safety, http://vscg.org/guiding-principles/, or buy the full guidance, ‘Managing Visitor Safety in the Countryside: Principles and Practice’, https://www.ypdbooks.com/misc/2089-managing-visitor-safety-in-the-countryside-principles-and-practice-YPD02361.html

From the Outdoor Swimming Society, read about and download the OSS Guide to Inland Bathing Areas.

List of risks and how they can be mitigated, download from this website, Risks to health and safety of outdoor swimming, and how to mitigate them (Word.doc, 5 pages)

swim fitness, exercise, walking, running, wellbeing, mental health

https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/yoga-for-swimming/

https://outdoorswimmer.com/news/yoga-for-open-water-swimmers-part-2

https://outdoorswimmer.com/news/yoga-for-open-water-swimmers

Keeping swim fit https://outdoorswimmer.com/blogs/how-to-keep-swimming-fit-during-corona-virus-pandemic

https://outdoorswimmer.com/news/life-in-lockdown-exercises-to-keep-your-body-fit-for-swimming

https://outdoorswimmer.com/news/tethered-swimming-how-to-train-for-the-open-water-in-your-back-garden

While you can’t swim https://outdoorswimmer.com/blogs/how-to-cope-with-life-when-you-cant-swim

Sport England is encouraging people to share their own home workouts #StayInWorkOut

Indoor exercises from NHS https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/

Sign up to join the Ramblers community at home https://bit.ly/3afDTOd

Ordnance Survey, COVID-19 update, Helping you to get outside safely https://getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/guides/covid-19-update/

How you can help plot the future of UK walking – from a standstill | National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conservation/2020/04/how-you-can-help-plot-future-of-uk-walking-standstill

NHS build up to running https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/couch-to-5k-week-by-week/

Looking after your mental wellbeing advice https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-guidance-for-the-public-on-mental-health-and-wellbeing/guidance-for-the-public-on-the-mental-health-and-wellbeing-aspects-of-coronavirus-covid-19

NORFOLK’S COPING, access to help https://norfolkcoping.weebly.com/,

Coping with worries https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips/?WT.tsrc=Paid_Social&WT.mc_id=CoronaWorries2

Coronavirus: Dr Radha’s five mental health tips for lockdown (video) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/newsbeat-52411394/coronavirus-dr-radha-s-five-mental-health-tips-for-lockdown

(For young people) How to avoid ‘news anxiety’  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhq77nb,

Five ways to fight loneliness while self-isolating – BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4yvvk7.

Forests and wellbeing www.forestryengland.uk/blog/how-bring-the-wellbeing-benefits-forests-your-home?

Tree hugging (literally) https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/benefits-of-tree-hugging/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Iceland recommends hugging trees instead of people | TreeHugger https://www.treehugger.com/health/iceland-recommends-hugging-trees-instead-people.html

Blue Mind by Wallace J. Nichols | Little, Brown and Company https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/wallace-j-nichols/blue-mind/9780316252072/

Richard Mabey Nature Cure https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview2

Roger Deakin, Waterlog: “I can dive in with a long face and what feels like a terminal case of depression, and come out grinning like an idiot” ( p4) https://inlanding.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/waterlog/

Short documentary film, Waterlog, https://www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/waterlog-a-perfect-antidote/

Can nature really heal us? https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/14/wild-ideas-how-nature-cures-are-shaping-our-literary-landscape

Does being in nature aid our mental health? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07d4v52

Isabel Hardman interviewed on @BBCr4today 28 April about some of the research behind why contact with nature and outdoor exercise can help treat mental illness, including in lockdown. Listen again (1h41 mins in, about 4.5 mins) here https://t.co/LIGKUYp1Os

The Natural Health Service: What the Great Outdoors Can Do for Your Mind, Isabel Hardman https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-natural-health-service/isabel-hardman/9781786495907

Noticing nature https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/press-release/take-a-moment-to-notice-nature-and-lift-your-spirits—new-book-helps-people-to-connect-with-nature-wherever-they-are, book https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/blogs/books-blog/the-power-of-everyday-nature, author talking on podcast https://melissaharrison.co.uk/podcast/the-stubborn-light-of-things-1-endurance/

In practice https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/09/spring-blossom-images-unite-uk-nature-lovers-amid-corona-crisis

Twitter @wildflower_hour, #wildflowerhour, Wild Flowers in Britain and Ireland #naturalhealthservice