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How to breathe while swimming freestyle: never hold your breath, breathe by rotating not lifting, and time it right. Simple drills to stop the panic.
Good freestyle technique is not fitness, it is a handful of fixes in the right order: body position, rotation, catch, kick and breathing.
The swimming drills that actually make you faster work by cutting drag, not adding force. Here are the highest-payoff drills for body line, catch, and speed.