My Name is Guy Press and I have been using ice baths, cold water swimming and breath work for the last 5 years. 

I lost my Wife Carolyne to an aggressive BrainTumour during the Covid Pandemic in 2021. 

We had been together 28 years and it was devastating.

It could have destroyed me Mentally and Physically.

However, Shortly after Carolyne passed, a good friend who is a superb open water swimmer suggested I went lake swimming with him in open water again to ease my mind. 

It was late September and the water was colder than I was used to in the normal spring summer open water swim season. 

I swam just 800 metres on a grey damp day in water that was about 13c but I felt a total peace and calm.

It was the first time I felt I could stop thinking depressive thoughts about everything that had happened over the last 12 months of Carolyne’s life.

I carried on swimming outdoors through the Winter of 2021 /22. I became Number 1 in the UK for the amount of Sub 10c swims I had done and that was when I started to realise the cold was a Medication for me alongside Breath work. 

This realisation enabled me to start getting my Mental Health and Life Back.