The Renaissance Swimmer Project
Live your best life through swimming
Discover how the Renaissance-era spirit of humanism, experimentation and balance can elevate your relationship with swimming.
Reimagine what you can do in swimming, and how swimming can boost your strength, fitness, health and wellbeing with this new project for curious and free-spirited swimmers.
- 16 chapters to help you develop your knowledge and skills across a range of indoor and outdoor swimming activities
- Graded challenges to help you put into practice what you learn
- Apply what you learn through swimming to other areas of your life
- Weekly email reminders to keep you on track
- Transparent cost: One-off payment (no subscription or future commitments)
- Immediate and permanent access to all project materials
- Start any time, proceed at your own pace
- Bonus material: 5-part freestyle refresher course
- Created by Simon Griffiths, founder and publisher of Outdoor Swimmer magazine
Become a Renaissance Swimmer and connect physically and emotionally with everything swimming offers. Develop the Renaissance ideals of continuously learning, exploring and improving then apply these to your swimming and your life and find joy in that process. Become endlessly curious about your swimming and unlimited in what you can achieve. Make swimming not just something you do, make it a core part of your identity.
Become the best all-round swimmer you can be
With 16 lessons and practical challenges, you will become a more knowledgeable, confident, and joyful swimmer. The Renaissance Swimmer project will equip you to make the most of the transformative power of water. You will swim further, faster, in colder water, in more places, boost your fitness and wellbeing, and have more fun.
The Renaissance Swimmer project 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.
Dive in
Sign up now for full access to the project content on this website.
In addition, you will receive a weekly email for 16 weeks to help you stay motivated and track your progress.
All for a single, one-off payment of £29.99*
*This is not a subscription or a recurring payment. If you are not happy, you can claim a full refund within 7 days of starting.
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
Any questions?
Please email me at
simon@outdoorswimmer.com