Become a stronger, more confident all-round swimmer and access more of swimming’s benefits with Renaissance Swimmer
🌊 Connect physically and emotionally with everything swimming offers, both in the pool and outdoors.
🌊 Take control of your swimming journey and swim further, faster, in colder water and in more places.
🌊 Discover how the Renaissance-era spirit of humanism, experimentation and balance can elevate your relationship with swimming.
🌊 Boost your fitness and wellbeing, and have more fun.
Become the best all-round swimmer you can be
Over 16 self-paced lessons and practical challenges, you will become a more knowledgeable, confident, and joyful swimmer – both in the pool and outdoors. Becoming a Renaissance Swimmer will equip you to make the most of the transformative power of water. You will develop a deep understanding of swimming and how you can improve across all strokes, distances and water types.
Renaissance Swimmer was created by Simon Griffiths, founder and publisher of Outdoor Swimmer magazine, and author of Swim Wild & Free, A Practical Guide to Swimming Outdoors 365 Days a Year. Simon is an accomplished masters and outdoor swimmer and was part of the team that created the STA Open Water Coaching qualification.
Who is the project for?
Anyone who swims, in pools or open water, who enjoys thinking about their swimming and wants to swim more mindfully and expand their swimming skills.
What does it cover?
Everything from improving your swimming technique to pool racing, long-distance swimming and winter swimming – and ideas for applying what you learn in swimming to your life.
How does it work?
The project consists of 16 core sections. On signing up, you get full and immediate access. You will also receive a weekly email for 16 weeks to help keep you on track.
Discover more of what swimming can offer you
Enjoy a healthier, fitter and more adventurous life by becoming a Renaissance Swimmer. Adding any swimming to your life would be a good thing. But I’m suggesting a Renaissance-style approach and exploring everything swimming has to offer and enjoying all its benefits. Developing confidence and skills in one aspect of swimming helps you in others. The more you expand your swimming repertoire, the more you benefit – both in swimming and in life.
Improve your technique and learn pool racing skills
Sections 3 and 4
Hone your open water racing skills
Section 10
Become more competent and confident in open water
Section 5
How to practise and train
Section13
Master the cold for fun and the health and wellbeing benefits
Sections 6 and 7
Swimming for health
Section 14
And that’s not all!
As well as the above, find out how to become a marathon swimmer, learn how to control your pacing, build your swimming technical knowledge and swimming general knowledge and create your own Renaissance Swimmer Lifestyle.
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Testimonials
“Thank you for creating Renaissance Swimmer. Your guidance on all aspects of swimming, combined with your encouragement of swimmers’ responsibility for their own learning and thinking, is truly outstanding.”
Esmond
“It’s great and I thank you for the thought behind it. How wonderful that a beginner pool swimmer like me can still score highly on some areas because you have holistically looked at how swimming is important to life.”
Sandra
“I was attracted by the range of topics covered and I am always keen to learn new things about a sport that I have done all of my life.”
Andrew
Need to know more?
- What is a Renaissance Swimmer, and why should you aspire to be one?
- What does swimming mean to me?
- How to start your Renaissance Swimmer journey
- Get Reflections, the free newsletter from Renaissance Swimmer
Any questions?
Please email me at
simon@outdoorswimmer.com