A coaching reframe: breath-hold work in the pool isn't primarily about race-day oxygen tolerance or panic management. It's a bilateral balance and muscular loading tool — forcing even loading across both sides by suppressing the natural tendency to breathe on the dominant side. When you breathe every five strokes on purpose, you're training symmetry as much as CO2 tolerance.
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