In case you do this yourself and not with an instructor I have two pieces of advice.
Any swimmer can exhaust themselves in half a pool length by kicking. Beginners often kick too hard, when you start try to kick just enough to keep your lower body at or closer to the surface of the water.
And don't try to swim fast in the beginning. It is almost guaranteed you will exhaust yourself before you make any improvements in your stroke. Go slow enough that you can go at least 8 laps. And maybe before that learn to go a pool length, without being breathless at the end, stop, rest, do another length.
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