20 of the Best Outdoor Swimming Pools in the UK Annie Hayes
If your last encounter with an outdoor swimming pool was Ibiza 2019, it’s about time you made a splash in the UK’s lidos. Besides offering a welcome change of scenery after the best part of a year spent indoors, swimming is the shortcut to swole you didn’t know you needed – you’ll torch fat, build injury-free muscle, and crank up your metabolism with every length.
Aesthetics aside, hitting the pool can even help you live longer. Compared to walkers, runners and couch potatoes, men who swam regularly halved their risk of dying from all causes, research from the University of South Carolina found. Make swimming a habit, and you’ll slash your risk of chronic illness, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke, the NHS states.