Bonus Ep 1: Seren Jones
In creating this series we've been privileged to speak to some incredible swimmers including; Seren Jones, Alice Dearing and Cullen Jones. All with their own stories and rich, unique relationships to ...
15 Nov 202338min
We Know Why We Swim
Welcome to the final episode of this series of Physical Capital. We’ve explored the human relationship with the water. What draws us to it. How we use it, what we gain from it… and what it can take f...
8 Nov 202328min
Women in the Sport
You enter the pool. You front crawl, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, or butterfly your way from one end to the other… and back again. It’s not complicated and essentially, swimming is the same fo...
1 Nov 202321min
Physical Capital - Mind And Body
Our Physical Capital - the physiology we have at our disposal - can only take you so far, when races are won and lost by milliseconds, small adaptations can be the difference between a place on the po...
24 Okt 202325min
Swimming Beyond the Pool
Open water swimming is on the rise and has been for the past few years but what’s the pull and why do people do it? In this episode we’re exploring what open water swimming is, how it makes you feel, ...
17 Okt 202324min
Race in the Pool: Blackness and Swimming
It is a widely perpetuated stereotype that Black people can’t swim. On paper, the statistics appear to back-up this perceived notion. Sport England reports that 95% of Black adults and 80% of Black ch...
10 Okt 202344min
The Politics of Swimming
Swimming as a sport is well and truly international. As we heard in the last episode, swimmers and teams from all over the world compete. But in order to compete at the highest level, athletes need th...
3 Okt 202332min
