While exercise in general can increase your overall feeling of wellbeing and help reduce your snoring, exercises specifically for snoring target the muscles and structure associated with the vibrations that cause your snoring.

So what are these Exercises?

This narrowing of the airways can be due to allergies, infections and swollen glands but also collapsing airways and blockages due to the soft palate, and tongue.

As the body gets older it tends to lose some of its elasticity and muscle tone. This includes the throat area where for most snorer's the snoring sounds originates.
Snoring exercises aim to firm the structure around the throat and help firm the muscles of the tongue and lower jaw. Loud snoring can occur when the jaw drops open and slips backwards causing the base of the tongue to block the airflow in the throat(either partially or totally). This condition is common in people with sleep apnea. Again this disturbed airflow causes the snoring sound. If you look straight ahead, keeping your head steady, and try to put your jaw on your chest, you will notice your tongue doesn’t sit on the floor of your mouth or on the roof of your mouth but slips to the back of your throat.

This falling back of the tongue is often the snore created by someone who falls asleep while sitting. Their head falls back, their jaw drops open, and they snore loudly, only to awake with a gag as the tongue falls to the back of the throat totally blocking the airway. If you have experienced this, then you know exactly what I’m talking about.

By firming the supporting structure of the breathing passages the airways are less likely to collapse and less likely to vibrate. If you have ever started a regular exercise program you can often feel the effects immediately. People who start doing sit-ups often report a notable firming of the tummy after one or two days. And the results from an exercise program for snoring can also have an immediate effect, within a day or two.

Icelander, Christian Goodman has developed and refined a specific exercise program to overcome various forms of snoring, based on the exercises performed by opera singers. Goodman's snoring exercise program is designed to tone the critical throat areas, the tongue and the jaw muscles to reduce the audible vibrations. Or in layman's terms, Stop the Snoring!

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