Exercise your way to a great speech!!

Every sport has warm up exercises. The warm up exercises are different for different sports. In tennis, the coordination of hands and feet are important. So the warm up exercises concentrate on
increasing flexibility of hands and feet. In swimming, inhalation and exhalation is the key. The warm up exercises also demand breathing exercises. To be a good sport person it is very important to warm up. I have come to believe that there should warm up exercises even for public speaking, which should be done everyday.

It is known that a good speech has the following components (according to importance):

• Body Language - 56%
• Voice Modulation - 37%
• Content - 7%

To give an impressive presentation we cannot be stiff like a rock or a piece of log. We need graceful movements. Our complete body is an instrument of expression. Loosening of body is possible only with a jog, stretching exercise and relaxation of facial muscles. Stretching exercise and jog will make the body supple. Relaxation of facialmuscles can give us range of expressions during a speech.

Our voices may be good enough for conversation on phone or to another person. We need to project our voice to an audience. Depending on the length of the sentences we need to take either a deep breath or a shallow breath. Breathing exercises are required, because breathing is involuntary and controlled by our brain. This also helps controllingpitch, timbre, tone etc.

The way the content is organized is also important. One way to improve that is to write one's personal dairy or a blog (dairy on the internet). You can see your style of writing improve as the days progress. "Writers block" is very common for a novice writer. The only way to get over itis to start writing.

With each exercise, the speaker learns a new style in speech delivery. This increases the ways of delivering a speech. Now, there is a wide variety of choices to use to write and deliver a speech. The speaker can use the most appropriatebody gesture and facial expression for the speech he has written. And thus deliver a good speech.