Open Water Swimming Coaching in the Lake District

Join a social session to refine your swimming and fitness with us!

For those seeking a 1:1 session, please get in touch with your preferred date/time, duration and type of session (e.g coaching, wild swim, guided swim etc).

🌊 Key Details - group sessions

• Duration: Variable (from 1 hour, 15 minutes to 2 hours)
• Location(s): Fell Foot Windermere, Windermere Jetty Museum, Bassenthwaite, Coniston Brown Howe, and other Lake District locations
• Minimum Age: 16+ for group sessions
• Group Size: 1–10 participants
• Price: 1hr 15min £55pp // 2 hours £70

🎯 Key Skills

• Stroke development 
• Sighting, deep water starts, buoy turns & event-specific skills
• Speed & fitness focus
• Develop efficient pacing and efficiency
• Water safety and environmental awareness

🏊 What to Expect

Sessions are tailored to the experience and goals of those attending, creating a supportive environment where swimmers can progress at their own pace and various speeds are welcomed.

Swimmers and triathletes can work on stroke efficiency, pacing, sighting techniques, breathing patterns, and open water skills commonly used during races and endurance events. Coaching takes place in real open water environments, allowing you to develop practical skills while receiving personalised feedback throughout the session.

Depending on the location, you may explore sheltered bays, larger lake crossings, or sections of water that provide ideal conditions for specific coaching objectives. Water safety, environmental awareness, and understanding changing conditions form an important part of every session, helping swimmers become more confident and independent in open water.

Both group workshops and private coaching options are available.

Private sessions can be tailored entirely to your individual goals, whether that involves preparing for a triathlon, improving technique, building fitness, or simply becoming more comfortable swimming outdoors.

📍 Location

Sessions take place across several of the Lake District's most popular swimming locations, including Fell Foot on Windermere, Bassenthwaite, and Coniston. Each venue offers different conditions and characteristics, allowing coaching to be matched to the aims of the session and the experience level of participants.

Surrounded by mountains, woodland, and open water, these locations provide excellent opportunities to learn and practise outdoor swimming skills. From calm sheltered areas ideal for newcomers to larger expanses of water suited to endurance training, the variety available within the Lake District makes it one of the UK's leading destinations for open water swimming.

✅ Prerequisites

We cater for swimmers of all levels (for beginners, please see our Intro to Open Water sessions).

Sessions are suitable for all speeds of swimmers.

Participants should be comfortable swimming a minimum of 400m continuously and bring equipment appropriate for the conditions and their ability.

Tow floats may be required at certain locations or during larger group sessions for visibility and safety.

Wetsuits & neoprene boots and gloves are optional and entirely the choice of the participant.

🌟 Why Choose Us

We know the Lake District inside out. Niamh has spent over 16 years swimming in the lakes, training for different distances and events, including triathlons, and later retrained to become a swimming teacher & open water coach to share her passion for swimming outdoors and sports performance development.

Our coaching is built on practical experience through different types of swimming, and through experience as a Level 2 swimming teacher, coach, and coach in other sports.

Coaching is built around practical outdoor experience and a belief that confidence develops through supportive, realistic learning. Every session focuses on helping swimmers understand their environment, improve their technique, and enjoy open water safely while progressing towards their personal goals.

Small group sizes allow plenty of individual attention, while private coaching provides fully personalised instruction. Whether you're taking your first steps into open water or preparing for an endurance event, sessions are designed to provide useful skills that continue to benefit your swimming long after the session has ended.