By Andy | December 2, 2008 - 2:10 am - Posted in Sleep Habits, Snoring
Stop snoring exercises that help make stronger and tone the muscles in the throat, can help ease snoring. In order to understand why stop snoring exercises may help, it is first important to understand what causes snoring. Snoring occurs when the upper airway, in other words, the throat, becomes partially blocked during sleep. This occurs when the muscles relax, allowing tissue to partially block the throat. The sound of air vibrating against this tissue is called snoring.
Here are 10 snoring exercises to improving throat strength/toning throat muscles:
- Stop Snoring Exercise #1: Begin a General Fitness Routine. Reduce your intake of junk
foods and try to exercise your body at least thirty minutes per day, five days per week. A brisk walk in the park with a friend is fine. Other people enjoy weight training, bicycling, swimming, etc. As you lose weight, you neck will diminish in size and your throat will expand. This in itself will bring about a decrease in your snoring thus a home snoring remedy.
- Stop Snoring Exercise #2 The pencil. Take a pencil and hold it between the teeth for up to 5 minutes. The grip should be firm, but not painful at all.
- Stop Snoring Exercise #3 The mouth. Move your lower and upper molars together, very gently. Open your mouth while pressing your molars as far apart as you can without doing any stretching. Do these exercises for 3 - 5 minutes, focusing on your molars, keep bringing them together and the lowering your jaw. When you get half way through your set, you will notice that the back of your mouth opening up more.
- Stop Snoring Exercise #4 Sing. Try to sing for at least twenty minutes a day. There are a few stop snoring exercise programs that offer CDs to teach you specific snore-reducing singing exercises. You can certainly purchase them if you wish. But singing of any kind tones and exercises the throat, so belt along with your favorite R & B singer or throw your voice into those old 80s rock hits. If you’re not confident about your voice, great places to sing include the shower and the car. Read The Full Story…
