Here Are 3 Simple Exercises to Strengthen A Weak Voice! You only need a few minutes per day...

A weak voice that can’t be heard in noisy places, or that “fades” in quality and strength across a day can be frustrating!

There is a long list of potential explanations. A common one is weak, atrophied, flaccid vocal cord—and other vocal tract—muscles. When this is the cause for a weak voice determined by medical evaluation, voice strengthening is the first place to start. In this video, Dr. Bastian provides background information about muscle strengthening in general, and why vocal muscles can weaken in some people.

He then suggests a simple voice strengthening strategy consisting of three exercises, taking no more than 60 seconds to complete. For many people, this DIY regimen can be sufficient by itself. If not, it can prepare you for further work with a speech pathologist or laryngologist. For those who want to skip straight to the three voice strengthening tasks, begin viewing at 5:28

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0:00 Introduction
0:40 Bodybuilder
5:35 3 Simple Vocal Tasks
10:22 Tracking Progress
11:51 Potential Benefits
13:32 Summary

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[miguel.santiago.]

Why arent all doctors like this? He explains everything so well and clearly 😭😭😭

[alkhazraji]

I never imagined that my weak vocal cords would make my life so challenging. Wish everyone great vocal cords.

[tm]

These are gonna be great for my already strained relations with my upstairs neighbor.

[hereforit]

Imagine hearing your neighbor out of his bathroom window going oooOoOoOoOooOOH for 20 seconds

[crystalmezzo]

I’m an opera singer/Voice coach and I just want to say that I totally agree with every task he recommends! 😊

[lacerdafelipe]

I'm a introvert and don't really like to talk much. My voice is extremely weak, in fact when i was with my friends in a loud bar, i had no voice when we left and my throat was hurting in the morning.
I just had my first session of theese exercises and i can feel my throat muscles calling me names for doind that.

I hope i am consistent enought and come back here one month from now and tell the results.

[junior]

thank you for just reminding me as a singer, that it’s all about just using it from bottom to top.

[dearsal]

What a doctor, super professional, a real true example of a doctor

[DanteTheRedPossum]

I work from home, I usually don't go out much and spend a lot of time alone, and when I go out, I usually notice how people can't hear me unless I put a lot of effort into it. I kind of just accepted it as a part of me but that had an impact on my self steem. I am glad I found this video because it opened the door to the chance of change, I will do the exercises. Thank you so much for putting this out there!

[selipe]

I've been told all my life that I speak too quietly, to speak up or louder, and I never really wondered why I simply couldn't "project" myself. Now I have a potential cause, but I will make sure this is the case and see a specialist. Thank you, Dr. Bastian!

[Amanda]

For about 23 years now, I've had a fascination of the human voice. I love our vocal cords, and I'm all about taking care of them. It's an amazing instrument. You taught me so much in this video.

[denisabdullah]

Saw the thumbnail and thought I was on the wrong side on the internet for a moment.

[sajjadakbar]

Doctor I had a problem of loosing my voice by the evening. I saw your this video and tried your technique for a month. It worked. My voice is better and I am able to speak loudly whole day without get hoarsely voice or loosing voice. I continue to follow your technique to maintain strong voice. May God bless you. Thank you very much.

[ronaloufamular]

Just completed Two Weeks TOTAL VOICE REST my ENT recommendation. I am a teacher and a singer. And recently diagnosed with VOCAL CORD NODULE BILATERAL. Thank God there are expert like you Doc🙏

[LoveAboveThought]

I don’t even have a weak voice. This video was just really well made and I decided to enjoy it. Thank you and may everyone’s voice here become stronger and more confident each day. 🙏

[JayanthvarmaB]

9:45 I was lying face down with my mouth on the pillow wondering, "How am I going to do this? I live in a dense city. Half my neighbourhood is going to hear me!" Then he tells me how! This video must be the god's blessing. He is so clear and his advices are sound! Just 👌🏿

[aaronwalderslade]

As a professional singer, I use the siren as an emergency warm up when there's almost no time to warm up properly. But when I do the siren I also loosely close the lips and add a to the siren. This vastly increases the effectiveness of the warm up as it is effectively switching the power on and off many times per second. It gets my voice ready to sing and helps smooth over the break between middle and head voice. I highly recommend it. Most singers know about this warm up. It's always good to warm up the voice before singing, so perhaps it's an idea to start with the siren, then go on to the deep voice, and finally the yell.

I don't agree about gripping the steering wheel. I think it is better to be relaxed, but you might correct me on this since your exercises are designed to be demanding. But for singing it's a bad habit to build tension into the use of the voice. You should be pushing air from the belly not the upper chest and relaxation (keep those shoulders down!) is important for that.

I work as an actor now and use my voice very loudly in places. My natural voice is very quiet and quite high, but I use a booming voice in my acting, so I'm definitely going to try these exercises. I also have a slight problem with the cordite smoke on stage during my loudest scene, it feels as if I might lose my voice when I scream in the smoke, and if you have any advice, that would be helpful.

Here for fun you can hear me doing 4 different James Bond voices

[rownrown]

Thank you for not only showing the exercises clearly but also for making them easy to fit into any schedule. I'm definitely doing these!

[peterpeterson]

When I was in the choir, we would do all the three exercises over time, the sirene, singing over a long distance, and sometimes trying a little anger in the voice to make it sound less hollow.

[vanessaboyd]

I'm a "still singing around the house " 65yoa and, used to sing like Sandi Patty in my younger days. Now singing again in a choir, I miss my voice and being older, I recognize the need to exercise my "girls', and breathing technique. So much to re-learn again! Just doing this with this doctor while he's teaching, I see an improvement, my goodness! Doing this daily will get me to almost back to those high C's and power ramps. Thank you and GBU!