The starting point for the mile-and-a-half ocean swim, planned for 9 a.m. Sunday, June 28, is Scripps Pier and its ending is ...

A Valley swim team faced one of their biggest challenges yet: swimming roughly 20 miles in the Catalina Channel in California. The brave teens swam in the cold waters from the California coastline to ...

If you need to catch up on your swimming because you have been away from pool access or you have progressed to a level where you want to challenge yourself with a 5,000-meter swim workout, here is a ...

If you are bored with counting laps in the pool and want a better way to keep track of time and distance for your swim workouts, try the 1:30 Interval Challenge. The goal of this workout is to swim ...

A California man is more than halfway through a year-long Lake Tahoe plunge challenge. So far, Nicholas Mitchell is almost 200 days into the Lake Tahoe 365 Cold Water Challenge, his year-long goal of ...

Whoever said swimming was not an extreme sport hasn’t heard of the many unique challenges that exist around the world. Every year, they pull swimmers out of their sheltered swimming pools into the ...

Ice swimming is the fastest growing extreme aquatic sport. Tens of thousands of swimmers now hit the cold water daily and before the COVID restrictions, thousands traveled to events from Siberia to ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Did you swim a lot ...

Andy Donaldson set off on his swimming challenge in Australia on Tuesday, April 28 Andy Donaldson began his 34-mile swim along the crocodile-filled Ord River in Western Australia on April 28 The ...

Andy Donaldson took less than 12 hours to swim the challenging 55-kilometre course down the Upper Ord River in Western ...