What Is Your Most Pressing Question About Swimming?
As a swimming coach I’m always asked a lot of different questions about improving technique, increasing speed, learning the correct breathing method, etc. It got me wondering what the biggest challenges everyday swimmers are having. If there was one thing which if you could get right, you know your swimming would improve dramatically, what would […]
Freestyle Breathing Technique: How to Breathe While Swimming
Effortless Swimming · Freestyle By Brenton Ford · Updated August 2026 TL;DR: Almost every freestyle breathing problem comes back to five things: exhale in the water (never hold your breath), keep one goggle in the water when you breathe, rotate your body instead of lifting your head, keep your lead arm extended through the breath, […]
