AFICIONADOS claim the health benefits of swimming in cold water are undeniable, but the practice is proving somewhat difficult for those locked down in the current UK winter.
However some are unperturbed, with My London reporting on some undertaking creative alternatives, including immersing themselves in garbage bins full of ice and melting snow.
The report cites claims that cold water immersion produces an endorphin high as well as improving immunity, reducing stress and increasing metabolic rates - and one person who swears by it is 45-year-old Lucy Ashdown-Parkes (pictured), who swam the English Channel last year and is now in training to swim the even colder North Channel between Ireland and Scotland.
Currently restrictions prohibit travel to her normal aquatic training grounds so as well as running and rowing in the gym she's taking "ten daily mini dips in my wheelie bin," Ashdown-Parkes enthused.
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